Arrived May 11, 2016
Love the family more than our investigator Roberto wants
an American girlfriend. We have tried teaching him and his friend who work at a
Colmado. They got distracted once and asked how they could get to know Americans.
I tried not to crush his hopes so I told him that the ladies love men that
dance. He seemed really happy and when we left he asked us to bring him back
two girls for him and one for his friend. I'm not sure how well they will
progress.
On Thursday all the district leaders in the misión had a
reunión for how to work better with members and our districts. It was fun to
see my old district leader and some of the people from my group. I got super
excited to get working, a lot of new ideas for getting references. It was
kinda short lived as I was called a few hours later to be companions with my
zone leader. So last week our Polynesian zone leader, tore his MCL in his knee
so, had to go home. My companion got moved up to district leader and got a mini
missionary, which is just a member who lives as a missionary for the transfer.
I’m companions with Elder Oldroyd from West Jordan Utah. Elder Markham was
super excited for it all, I spent the time in a cold sweat as I packed my stuff
up.
Elder Oldroyd has been showing me the ropes for stuff
and it has gone well. We get along really well. I kinda feel bad for the guy
because he has had some medical stuff, lost his comp, stressing over the
girlfriend, has me as a companion and has 3 months left.
It is really strange to be companions wit somebody and
feel like I’m the weaker side of the team. I have been studying and going over
how I teach because it is amazing to see how Elder Oldroyd works. I’m used to
stressing over how to plan things and lead the lessons so it is a change
to be here. Not going to lie, it is a Little like having a break to just
follow somebody around for a few days, I can’t help out as much as I
wish since I’m so new. We are nearly whitewashing since my companion
has two and a half weeks here and I have a few days. We have fun and
work hard. I have enjoyed this week a lot.
Saturday we were going to have a baptism at
our ward, Tierra Alta. The building is a stake center (Dizque the
first chapel in Santiago) with us two elders and two sisters. The
sisters had a woman and we had a teenager. In the end the woman got baptized
and we will have the man in a few weeks. Our ward misión leader is the mini missionary
that replaced me and he wanted to come see the baptism, so he came and brought
me old comp. It was strange to get a picture with my two companions, oh how the
turn tables.
It has been a lot of contacting o sea door to door
contacting which I don’t mind to much, we make it enjoyable. There are a few
families that have testimonies of the Book of Mormon but have some challenges
that we are trying to figure out and then help them with. I think as a missionary
you try so hard to get people to come to know the Book of Mormon is true and so
it blows my mind a Little bit that they may to understand exactly what that
means.
We have this one investigator who accepted a date the
other day named Josue (Joshua). He is a barber and a super tig. (Tigre a.k.a
looks like a guy you don’t want to meet at night or in an alley) I really love
teaching him because he has a natural desire to want to change and feel clean
and not remorseful. I Love that even with how his life is he wants to be better
and have a good life. It is inspiring really, he also says he would like to
come to church. He will need a lot of changes in his life but it could work
out.
Today we spent some time at the misión home for medical
reasons for my companion, went to la Calle Del Sol, Street of the sun, where
all the souvenir things are sold and my comp had some watches fixed by a guy.
Cheap knock off watches are starting to look tempting, but so do machetes,
Dominican whips and fabric to get myself some custom made pants. We headed over
to Price Smart or the Dominican Costco where we loaded up on pancake mix and syrup.
We bought enough mix for about 600 pancakes, which should last us a few months.
We saw a lot of missionaries and every time we did they asked if my companion
and I were on exchanges and got really wide eyes when we told them we are
companions. Everyone is freaking out, including me.
Mom a tender mercy for you since you love them. It was
stressful to buy food one meal at a time in Buenos Aires but looking back it
helped me not to spend all my money on groceries which I would have had to
leave at that house. If I would have bought everything at once like I normally
do I would by without dinero. Ahora tengo pilas de pancakes.
Spiritual thought comes from Doctrine and covenants section 9
and verse 11. It talks about how Oliver Cowdry and the timing of the Lord.
Sometimes in life there are things that do not wait for us, especially the
salvation of man. He is patient but his work will not be stopped and so we must
always be prepared and equally willing. Dont miss out on your part in His plan
because you weren’t ready or hesitated. He asks us to be ready and willing for
Him to make us able to do that which He would have us do.
Love Elder Sheffield
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