Wow this week was a crazy one ha I don´t even know where to start!
Since this was the last week of the change Elder Echeverría and I decided we really wanted to push ourselves and work really hard. So last Sunday during stake conference we asked President Ward what the record was for lessons taught in one week. He said he wasn´t quite sure but he thought that it was like 54 or somewhere around that. So we set our goal to get 60 lessons this week. Well not only did we make 60, we actually got 68!! It was so crazy! Ha we worked so hard, by about Thursday we both were just dying because we were so tired but we kept pushing on and set the record. It was super fun though we found so many people that have been prepared and are ready to hear the gospel it was so awesome to see! This week really helped me a ton with my Spanish too, Elder Echeverría had me do a lot of the contacting and lead a lot of the lessons, at the beginning of the week I was a little rough but by the end I could definitely see an improvement which was good. Because we broke the record today President Ward let us go to the mission home and hang out with him and Sister Ward. It was so awesome!
We also baptized two people this week which was awesome! We baptized a 15 year old boy and his sister who is 13. They´re both awesome and have super strong testimonies of the church. At the baptism we didn´t have very many other members show up and the people who were going to give the talks didn´t come so my comp and I gave them. I was pretty nervous at first, but it actually turned out alright and the spirit was super strong throughout the whole service which was awesome. We also had an investigator come and he loved it and after the service he kept asking us when we could go teach him again it was so cool haha I love it!
It´s been raining super hard this week ha I think it´s basically rained all day for the past 4 days. Occasionally it´ll break and we´ll have sunshine for a little while but it doesn´t last very long. The other day we were walking to a member´s house and it was pretty nice out, it was a blue sky and it was super hot, within 30 minutes it was a complete down poor and it rained the rest of the day ha it was so crazy. It´s so hard to teach when it rains here because the roofs of all the houses are tin, so when the rain hits it, it´s SUPER loud ha we basically have to yell while we´re teaching and sometimes we still can´t hear what each other is saying.
This week has been an awesome week! Ha I can´t believe I’m done with my first change here in the mission. It´s been a pretty good one we´ve worked super hard and I’ve learned a ton! We´re still not sure if elder echeverria and I will be together next change but we´ll find out tomorrow night. We hope we can stay together another change but we´ve heard a lot of rumors that he´s changing. So I guess we´ll see what happens.
Thanks for all of your love and prayers
Elder Westwood
Since this was the last week of the change Elder Echeverría and I decided we really wanted to push ourselves and work really hard. So last Sunday during stake conference we asked President Ward what the record was for lessons taught in one week. He said he wasn´t quite sure but he thought that it was like 54 or somewhere around that. So we set our goal to get 60 lessons this week. Well not only did we make 60, we actually got 68!! It was so crazy! Ha we worked so hard, by about Thursday we both were just dying because we were so tired but we kept pushing on and set the record. It was super fun though we found so many people that have been prepared and are ready to hear the gospel it was so awesome to see! This week really helped me a ton with my Spanish too, Elder Echeverría had me do a lot of the contacting and lead a lot of the lessons, at the beginning of the week I was a little rough but by the end I could definitely see an improvement which was good. Because we broke the record today President Ward let us go to the mission home and hang out with him and Sister Ward. It was so awesome!
We also baptized two people this week which was awesome! We baptized a 15 year old boy and his sister who is 13. They´re both awesome and have super strong testimonies of the church. At the baptism we didn´t have very many other members show up and the people who were going to give the talks didn´t come so my comp and I gave them. I was pretty nervous at first, but it actually turned out alright and the spirit was super strong throughout the whole service which was awesome. We also had an investigator come and he loved it and after the service he kept asking us when we could go teach him again it was so cool haha I love it!
It´s been raining super hard this week ha I think it´s basically rained all day for the past 4 days. Occasionally it´ll break and we´ll have sunshine for a little while but it doesn´t last very long. The other day we were walking to a member´s house and it was pretty nice out, it was a blue sky and it was super hot, within 30 minutes it was a complete down poor and it rained the rest of the day ha it was so crazy. It´s so hard to teach when it rains here because the roofs of all the houses are tin, so when the rain hits it, it´s SUPER loud ha we basically have to yell while we´re teaching and sometimes we still can´t hear what each other is saying.
This week has been an awesome week! Ha I can´t believe I’m done with my first change here in the mission. It´s been a pretty good one we´ve worked super hard and I’ve learned a ton! We´re still not sure if elder echeverria and I will be together next change but we´ll find out tomorrow night. We hope we can stay together another change but we´ve heard a lot of rumors that he´s changing. So I guess we´ll see what happens.
Thanks for all of your love and prayers
Elder Westwood
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