Training Complete

I have completed training and am so ready to take on the work with everything that I learned. Elder Monroy taught me so much and my Spanish improved immensely. I dropped him off this morning at the buses to head up to Tumbes and my new comp came later from Tumbes, his name is Elder Wittwer. He is white and has blonde hair, so I'm looking forward to the respect we will receive from everyone now that there are two of us. Just kidding, I think we will do great, he only has six more weeks than me so we are still relatively new but we get along already so that's good.

The work was great last week and our investigators are progressing. Hermano Villajuan, an 18 year old who is preparing for his mish has been coming with us and helping a ton during the lessons, he will be a great missionary one day. On Wednesday we were teaching Maria Fernanda and she has been avoiding baptism saying she wants to wait until she is 16, she is 14 now. I was asking her why she wanted to wait and explaining the endless blessing if you are baptized now. Villajuan helped a ton and she finally settled on getting baptized on the 20th of March, a day after her birthday.

Elder Monroy and I have really gotten to know her and Monroy already left and I will too by the time her baptism comes, maybe we can get her to move it up. We had our 12 week conference to wrap up training, later that day we went to check on David a recent convert who has been struggling recently. We pray for him and hope he and his family will be better.

After an awesome exchange with Flitton came Friday and we went to the 24 month converts devotional by Elder Holland, it was amazing!! He taught about trial in our lives and how we should expect them, God didn't give them to us, we are in mortality, what do you expect? We are not perfect but the church sure is. He talked about staying in the boat, during a crazy storm why the heck would you jump out into the water. Sure the boat will shake and your life will be hard but the storm will pass, it always does. God keeps His promises, don't turn your back just when the blessings are about to come. Don't leave the truth of the gospel, thats "Loco in la cabeza!" as an apostle of the Lord put it. Anyways, he taught a lot of great stuff and I was so happy to see our converts there listening to it.

Lots of fun this week, catch ya on the flippity-flip.