Wow! Another week... time.... How...?...flying.... time goes fast. Sorry I just wanted to resume that whole first part that I think I put every time I write haha. ;) I think everyone got the just of it.
So this week has been interesting! Monday I stayed in because I got hit with a second blast by the flu and also Elder Hansen was sick with it too. We stayed in the apartment here below the office in our beds all day. Our companions brought us our food and we slept practically all day. We also watched all the church videos about the 12 steps of recovery. They are pretty intense. And inspiring. Probably not for children. Anyways, so that's what we did Monday.
Next was the crazy thing. All last week President was in Peru in a training for all the mission presidents of the northwest area of S. America. He got back at the first of this week and he shared with us a ton of new "adjustments" that the general authorities have sent for us to fulfill now in the world of missionary work. First thing, the missionaries noow don't do rescuing of less-actives or retaining new converts, that will be completely from the wards and the members. As it says in the missionary purpose, we are to invite people to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel, or in other words, we are to only focus on investigators and those people who DON'T have the gospel. Less-actives and converts already have it, and so the general authorities havea sent us to only find and baptize investigators. They set a goal for every companionship to find 20 new people every day, which is really hard. But what they taught us is that we must be focusing on families, so if we are finding like 4 or 5 families every day, it will be easier to find new investigators. We now have a new plan in setting the baptismal date and everything too and it will be intense to see how everything starts to play out as we begin finding so many people. We had another leadership council to be trained by President and everything and really it was awesome. There is a lot of work to do and our expectations have been and need to be set high. If we have high expectations and lots of love, we will see miracles in our missions and in our lives.
So yeah I think that's about all that has happened this week. All is well. I am feeling a lot better. I still have a tiny bit of a cough and sinus congestion, but I'm a lot better now.
I love you all. Until the next time.
Love,
~Élder Tyler Hales~
ÉLDER HALES
Secretario de Salud
Misión Colombia Barranquilla
Hey Mommoo! I'm doing just dandy! :) I'm feeling a lot better. I never started with the antibiotics.... Right now I just have a little bit of a cough and a little bit of sinus congestion still, but it's almost better. Next time I will definitely be taking the anti-nephi-lehi's. ;)
But hey that is so awesome about that conference thing! You will have to share with me some parts of the talks. Maybe they'll make me cry too haha ;) Actually I haven't cried in quite a while. It has surprised me. I think it is from being here in the office. I really need to learn how to have more spiritual experiences here. I get sad sometimes here in the office because it's not what I was expecting my mission would be like. But it's not my decision. I just need to find how I must be serving with my best here.
I love you so much Mommoo! Take care of the family! Help them keep reading the scriptures together and praying together. Oh just to let you know as well about the skype call for Christmas! At what time do you guys want to do it? Also President has now given us permission to talk for an hour :)!!! So yay!
I love you so much! Oh and one more thing! Maybe ideas for Christmas or something idk ;) There is a sweet Lego set with Captain America without his helmet, Winter Soldier and Black Panther!!! I saw it today and it looks legit! I wanted to buy it but maybe it would be better not to here. ;) Just an idea.... or the set from the Avengers 2 with Capt!
Love you see you bye!
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