Sorry about your hectic morning mom! Don´t worry being a little late to school never hurt anybody too much ;) haha just kidding! That is cool that Tanner can drive now though. He can probably drive himself to school every morning then right?
Our week went alright. We have been finding 10 new people to teach every week pretty consistently. We just have the goal of 10 every week and we can usually find that many without have to knock doors or anything. We get most of our new investigators off of past investigators (people that were listening to the missionaries before) and references from investigators. The district is doing alright. It is still super hard, but better I guess. The big news of this week is that we are now a trio of missionaries though. Elder Aguilera, the companion of Elder Nail, got sent to a different area. What happened is that Elder Dahlin, our zone leader, got sick and had to get his appendix taken out this week. He is now in the offices recovering from his operation for one or two weeks. While he is in the offices, Elder Aguilera was sent to be the companion of Elder Viza, our other zone leader. This means that we are now in a trio. It is going to be really different. We are going to have to figure some things out. First of all I have never been in a trio so it is super different trying to plan and teach with 3 people! Also we now have 2 areas to handle instead of just one! We might have to switch back and forth between areas now or something. We are going to try and see if we can go on some splits with members too. If we can get a member to help, one person can go with the member and the other 2 can go in the other area.
Well other news of the mission: we have new senior missionaries! They arrived here just this last week and they are a cute couple from Tooele Utah. They will be attending our ward here because they live in apartments by us. Our area and ward is Terron Colorado. The majority of the members are the poor, humble colombians, but the ward boundaries also include down at the bottom of the hill where rich people in apartments live. It was cool to have them in the ward. They are named Elder and Sis. Aagard. The Elder speaks spanish but the sister doesn´t speak anything. They called them both up to bear their testimonies this past sunday and sis Aagard had to have everything written down to stumble through it. It reminded me when I was first trying to learn spanish and how I couldn´t say absolutely anything! I could tell the Sister was super nervous, but she got through it and it turned out well.
Also, that sunday we went to a area training, a broadcast from the area seventies that talked about the importance of the ward council in the missionary work. We were supposed to go all as wards (all the members of the organizations) but it was kinda sad that only 4 people from our ward came. It was a broadcast, but there was a section where we were supposed to meet together with our ward to talk about the broadcast and our ward council wasn´t even there! We have a good ward, but people just are a little flaky on things sometimes. Hopefully that our ward can get together this week and start doing the meetings. It is the new vision of the area right now that we work more together with our ward and that we start trying to reactivate people too. We are going to start with that this week, visiting the inactives and give them the lessons over again. We have to give them all the commitments over again, but instead of a baptism, the inactives have to accept an interview with the bishop and receive a calling. If they go through all this process and receive a calling they are considered "rescued" members.
Well hope you guys have a great thanksgiving this weekend! Save some turkey for me! haha I will just be here eating the usual soup, rice, and a piece of meat.. Thanks for sending some packages though mom.Thanks a lot for everything! I will try and send some pictures in this email too. Got to go bye!
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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