ARGENTINA

ARGENTINA

24 April 2012

I NEED TO STEP UP AND GET THIS DISTRICT MOVING

hola mamita

im glad you enjoyed my letter so much! jaja. another week down, and not much to report. i hate when i dont have much to tell you. but capacitiacion was awesome. i loved it so much. and it was cool seeing a lot of old companions and leaders. i saw for instance elder g, my companion from toay. he is now a district leader as well. but yeah, president d is awesome. we have new "commandments" now though as missionaries. we need to baptize each week. we need to find at least 2 new investigators each day, and get baptismal fechas with them or they dont count. that is no longer our zone rule but a mission wide rule. he also talked about how  and i quote "we need a missionary who prays with more power." he feels we dont pray with enough zeal, is that the word? we arent sincere enough in our prayers. we also dont have enough hunger to baptize, if we did, we would be doing what we need to, which is baptizing each week. as a district, we only found 1 new investigator last week. the asistents talked about goals and being specific and not just planning for one week but having the vision of planning for three weeks to a month in advance. we really need to get working though on finding newbies. the zone leaders told me i need to get it into gear. four missionaries and one new investigators is not helping the mission. they said they want me to go up to being zone leader and that i cant do that if i cant get even the district up and functioning. i know i said i dont want to be zone leader, but if i can and am needed to be, i have to step up my game as well. i dont want to lose what can be. its just like the celestial kingdom. we dont not want to go there, so we need to do everthing we can to get there. so i need to step up and get this district moving. i am going to do divisiones with the zone leaders this week, and also with the other companionship this week. so i am going to learn form the zone leaders and then go right into teaching it to the other companionship.

last week, we didnt really get any lessons in. J didnt come to church. we werent able to teach him, i think he is falling out of sight. we may have to drop him. we have to many eternal investigators. that the last thing we need. B is afraid to get baptized and not be able to keep the commandments afterwards. i think its just an excuse though. we dont know how to get to him yet. we ate dinner with L and her dad this week. her dad had invited us to an asado and it was pretty good. on saturday we helped out an hermana cut all the branches off her trees and take them out to the garbage. she had a lot of trees and thick branches. my shoulder still hurts.then on sunday we went by the familia v. hermano v is the mission leader. he told us about one of his daughters who is not baptized and we could try to start working with her. so we are going to try to get something going with her, she is named v. really, we need to kick it into high gear. we know that we need to work even harder, we were put here for a reason, and we dont want bolivar to suffer. we want it to be its own ward and possibly stake! well mom, i love you! take care!

elder jones

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