This week was pretty awesome. Not going to lie. To start it off. Tuesday we had our leadership council as a mission. We had to tell everyone that our zone only had three baptisms in July :( That kinda sucked, but all is well. We are working our butts off to try to get our zone to work their butts off. It seems like everything is working just fine. This weekend, our zone had 3 baptisms to start off August, so we already are doing better than last month.
Some things changed in the mission since the leadership council. Our new president, now that he has a little bit more experience has established his rules. I really like this guy. His mindset is: We are all adults, we all have agency, our eternal progression depends on the way we use our agency. So he´s pretty laid back. We can drink soda now :) :) :) He wants us to use our agency, the spirit, and discernment to make wise decisions instead of having 100 different rules for every different situation that could happen. He trusts us a lot more.
After the leadership council we planned our zone conference. Ours went really well. Normally the zone conferences are pretty easy to prepare because we train about what they taught us in the leadership council. This time they told us to train about something that wasn´t addressed in the council. We talked about Cultivating the Faith to Find.
We came up with a pretty good idea. We bought a bunch of golden chocolate coins and on each of the gold coins we wrote the names of each of the investigators that are hopefully going to get baptized in August. There were 35 in total. We hid each of the 35 coins around the outside of the church. Then we told everyone to go outside to look for the coins. Obviously there were some that got super into it and ran outside looking for the coins, and there were some that couldn´t care less about finding a gold chocolate coin.
The point was to show them that finding investigators is the same way. If we´re super excited, then we´re going to find a ton of investigators. The people who didn´t even try kind of felt bad when they didn´t find anything and other people had coins that had the names of their own investigators on them, and that is exactly what I wanted for them to repent, hahaha. My bud, Elder Rojas found the most out of everyone. He´s a fun guy. We´re going to do exchanges with him tomorrow because he is going to have like 3 baptisms this Saturday. We´re going to drink a bunch of Coke to celebrate. Haha
Yesterday, we apparently experienced a "Solar Storm." It was pretty crazy. Apparently there were extra strong UV rays that were extremely dangerous, so dangerous that some wards decided not to start church until 6 PM. I didn´t feel anything, but if I get cancer after the mission, we´ll know why. jaja.
I´m trying to think of what else happened this week. We still didn´t have Paula´s baptism because her family still didn´t get to town. But for sure it will be this week. We went to 2 baptismal services in our zone and that was pretty successful. I´m about out of time. Thanks for reading my letter. I love you guys!
-Elder Steele
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