Mom and family,

Glad that everyone had a good week. I am so excited about Grandma and Grandpa with their mission call! I was hoping that they would get to come to Colombia, but they will do great in Philadelphia too. We are getting 2 senior missionaries this next transfer finally. We haven´t had the senior missionaries for about 3 months now. That is too bad that they won´t be there when I get back, we will have to go visit them! That is great that Tanner got his Eagle too! I didn´t really he had already got all the stuff done for it. Tell him good job!

 Well this week has been one of the hardest weeks of my mission. It is not easy to be a district leader for this district. Elder Darley got transferred and Elder Nail arrived. He is a kid from Dallas Texas and he only has 4 months in the mission! He reminds me of myself when I was just starting the mission, he studies his spanish like crazy. It is amazing that he knows so much spanish.

I learned this week that it is not easy being a district leader! I of course am trying to help my district improve on the obedience and stats, but it is a lot easier said than done. The obedience has been the hardest part! Luckily I have Elder Nail here and he is a super obedient missionary, but the others don`t listen to anything I say!   I am not sure how to help people be obedient when they don`t listen.. I am trying to at least be a good example and be loving about it though! 

Tuesday we had our first district meeting with me running the show! I actually thought it went pretty good and my district seemed to listen to me. In the mission right now we have the goal to "rescue" 4 inactives. We talked about that in our meeting and we have to start finding inactives that we think can be reactivated. We have to teach them all the missionary lessons over again, and they have to attend church twice. They also have to receive a calling and interview by the bishop to be considered "rescued". We went over that in the meeting and we talked about the other goal the mission has to baptize 2 people this month and 5 for December. Elder Lopez and I don`t have much going for us right now, so I felt kinda guilty talking about how we need to meet all these goals when we don`t even have anyone that is preparing for baptism right now.. We have to have a big week this week if we want to hit these goals! Luckily the other 2 missionaries in our district have got some people that are getting ready for baptism. 

That is just about all that happened this week, so just pray that these missionaries in our district will start trying to be more obedient and that we can have some success! I was studying in D&C 121 today and I found some cool verses that I wanted to share. At the end of the chapter it talks about how there are many called but few chosen. It says that many people when they get a little authority they want to exercise unrighteous dominion. The Lord shows us the right way to lead at the end of the chapter. I read it in Spanish, but it says that we need to correct the people at first, but then we need to show that we love them. That is what I am going to try and do as a leader. Sometimes I am afraid to correct people, but I am going to try to listen to the spirit and if he tells me to correct I am going to try and do it with courage but then show love for the person at the same time. Easier said then done, haha but I guess that is the secret right there! 

I got a letter from Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong so tell them thanks for that! I am so excited for them and know they will be great missionaries! Also Mom I was going to ask you, do you think you could send me a lasagna recipe? Some people were asking me to make that and that would be cool to make here :) Got to go but you are all in my prayers.

I will talk to everyone next week! 

Love,

Elder Armstrong