Well what can I say... Time continues to go by, experiences continue to pile up, and the tempurate seems to keep raising. I have been doing a lot of reflecting reciently on the last year and a half. It´s truely is an experience like none other to do this and honestly is kinda crazy to think that Im entering into the home stretch of it all. Outside of the religous things and the rewards that one gets when he dedicates all his time and energy serving God and teaching others about our Savior, When you just look at it without that perspective, it seems completely insane what thoundsand of young men and women are doing around the world. Leaving their families and their promising studies and careers, packing 2 large suitcases and living out of them for 18 months to 2 years, many times in a foreign country speaking a foreign language... idk it doesnt make any sense to me why one would do it without that perspective. Obviously, every missionary for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter saints leaves with their own reasons and motives.... but I promise that every Elder or Sister out there serving, asks themselves why they do it all.And they all have to look deep inside and decide that they are doing it for the right reasons. For members of the church, it is what is expected, We see missionaries all the time in the street and in our wards and we dont think much of it...and it has become common ground that i dont think that many understand the true sacrifice that it takes to wake-up everyday, put on the tag, and work. Here, over there, and in every part of the world, there are members of the church that dont appriciate what missionaries do. Even outside of the context of missioanries, even the local leaders of the church go underappreciated for all they have to do and are called to do. I now understand why it is a commandment to ¨Sustain the leaders of the church¨. I think the perspective will go full circle at the end of this great journey.
This past week, we had divisions. I was with Elder Potts and worked a little with him. We also went to Esquina because there was going to be a baptism. I was assigned to interview the investigator and when we got to the house, the missionary from esquina that I was with told me as we were knocking on the door, that they hadnt taught Tithing yet and that we would have to teach tithing before the interview..... WHAT! I thought he was kidding me. really? well, we started the lesson, taught tithing and then went to interview her. She hadnt had a clue that she needed to be interviewed and wasnt prepared, and didnt know what the questions were. To keep the story short... she got super nervious, and ended up calling off the baptism. I was pretty dissapointed in the elders for not having her prepared enough or ready for us... and we lost saturday and sunday cause we had to travel to esquina just for the baptism of an investigator that wasnt ready to be baptised...
We had an activity in the church friday evening, it was a water activity and there was a bunch of memebers and investigators there. I got soaked!! We didnt have investigators make it to church but there is a lot of potential right now in our area. We returned for a 2nd lesson to a family and the 25 year old daughter had read everything and more that we left to read. She was asking questioned and was super interested in the message. Her name is Eli Vigarosa.
But that was my week. We have interviews with president tonight and then a little training with him tomorrow in the morning. He came to Goya so we didnt have to travel. He brought us new mattresses! I hope you all have a great week. I lost my cabel to charge my camera.... SO I dont have picture SORRY! I will look for a new cabel!
Elder Corbin Keicher
