Yep! I got sent to a new zone. I'm now zone leader in the Litoral Zone with Elder Martinez. We are the biggest zone in the mission with 12 areas and more than thirty missionaries! It's going to be a big adjustment coming from the smallest two zones in the mission but I am excited! My new area is called Pacheco. We have a large ward (about 140 active members) and we are anticipating a lot of success in the coming month. We decided to focus on sharing the Book of Mormon in the month of March. Yesterday I was able to share my testimony with the ward and I challenged all of them to share one Book of Mormon in the next 30 days. I got the sense that they will need a little boost of energy from the missionaries but we are ready to encourage all of them. The youth and YSA in the ward accepted the challenge!
I'm excited to be with Elder Martinez. I was his zone leader in Zarate so we already know each other. He's from Monterrey, Mexico and speaks lots of English. We usually speak in Spanish because I want the practice but it's fun to use English expressions every once in a while. Elder Martinez is very quiet and very diligent. We'll get along well.
This week we went back to the basics: talking with everyone and sharing our testimonies. We found a few new families to teach and also started teaching the family members of a few recent converts.
Paula, an investigator that Elder Martinez was teaching before I got here, got baptized on Sunday. She'll be confirmed this coming Sunday. Eliseo and Elias from Zarate also got baptized and confirmed! Their parents, Cristian and Flavia, put a date with the government to get married!!! That means two and possible 3 couples that we were teaching in Zarate getting married and baptized in March!
I got the package you sent this week! Thank you so much. I feel loved just knowing that you remember my birthday in enough advance to send a package. We're going to make the brownies tonight and eat them tomorrow to celebrate. I love the whiteboard messages that you sent in the photo album. (hope it's okay but I opened the package this morning so I wouldn't get distracted tomorrow).
I'm grateful for your love and for your testimony. Thank you for being my mom.
Love,
Elder Smith
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| Paula with us and the ward mission leader |
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| Paula and her family |
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