It´s been a really good, but really hot, week. Luckily I´ve been able to lead the area pretty well and find everything I´ve needed to. I really like Elder Abrams. He is from Utah and has about 7 months in the mission. We are going to baptize a lot this transfer. We are working really hard. We found 13 new investigators this week, which is a new record for me. My old comp left me a pedometer he had, and I´ve been using it this week. Wednesday I got 25,537 steps. Thursday 19,473. Friday 20,852. Saturday 27,974. And Sunday 26,392. Basically we walk a lot and my legs are always tired at the end of the day.
Gaston passed his interview with President this wednesday and we will be baptizing him this saturday. We also have people lined up for the 17, 24, and the first saturday in march. We plan on baptizing a lot this transfer.
On our p-day we recieved some bad news. Victor, one of our investigators who I´ve talked about before, passed away. We couldn´t believe it when we got the phone call. Just the night before we had a really good lesson with him and he said he would pray and ask what date he should get baptized. He had come a long way, and made a ton of changes in his life. He had started to repair some of the damage he caused in his family. I hope that one day somebody will go to the temple with his name and that he will accept his baptism.
Also, another sad thing. Last week my comp wanted to get some photos off of my sd card, and when he plugged it in some kind of virus got on it and now all my photos are gone. It really sucks. Hopefully you still have the ones I´ve sent you, but the ones from Karina´s baptism are gone and I´m really sad about that. I´ll try to get a picture with her again so you can see her. I guess from now on I know to always back up my photos on Google Drive.
The spanish is definitely coming. It´s such a great feeling to understand what people say. I´m still really struggling with rolling my r´s though. Do you have any advice? My tongue does not seem capable. I´ve asked a bunch of the latino missionaries how to do it but they´re not really any help because it´s just natural for them. I´m determined to get it one day. Also the subjunctive still confuses me a little, when I should use it and when I should use indicative. It´s slowly starting to make sense though. It seems like the natives don´t really understand subjunctive either haha.
Sorry I don´t have photos this week, I´ll make sure to get some for next week (and save them on google drive). Hopefully when I write next we will have had another baptism.
-Elder Shelton
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