It is the end of an era here,
Hello everyone, and how are
ya? As of a few hours ago, transfer calls came in, and here's the news:
Elder Rivera is leaving, and I will be staying in this area and getting a
new companion. The area is changing too, and we will no longer
have all the YSA's in Spanish, only the northern Provo family stakes and
possibly some left over YSA's that get tossed over our way as they divvy
it out. As such though, we at the very least have a particular Spanish
ward we should be covering as their sole elders, and maybe another. The
specifics are a bit vague right now. Suffice it to say, we will no longer
cover 27 stakes!
Exciting times are ahead for these next few days! But
yes, I will have to say goodbye to Elder Rivera soon enough and that is
a stilling fact. He has been in this area for a long time, and is so
excited to go to a new area, and so I'm glad for him. We'll go to the
temple tomorrow together for the last time as a companionship. He'll
leave Wednesday morning and I'll get my new companion. Elder Rivera has
been a wonderful trainer, companion, and friend, and now that it comes
to it I'm really at a loss of how to explain it. We've had a lot of good
times and seen a lot of things, good and bad, but hopefully both come
out better from it, as I know I have. The very least, he will be missed.
As for the week though, many of our old investigators (who may now get reassigned to other sets of Spanish missionaries in the coming week) were able to meet with us finally. We had dinner with Toree and her parents, and that was great to meet her mom a bit more officially. We had a lesson after a while with Sergio, and a great spiritual one with Felipe. We had a good catch up with Alejandro, but work schedules kept us from Diana Fernandez and Daniela Moncada this week. That and we haven't seen hide nor hair of Angel since last year, althought we're trying to re-establish contact. We hope everything is ok with him. If I may enlist some help, keep him in your prayers.
We had a good lesson with Christian too, we'll
see him tomorrow and teach the Plan of Salvation if he did read in the
Book of Mormon. Its strange to think that I'm probably not going to teach more than
half of these people anymore. We ended up doing a lot of work in our new
family stakes this week, meeting an inactive family and going to
their ward, The North Park Spanish Ward, which should be my official one
now. So lots of changes and good times this week.
Well, the mission rolls on, new experiences never at a lack. Hope all is well at home! Keep up your New Years Resolutions! (Already forgotten about them?)
-Elder Martin
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