Glad everyone is getting back into the schedule down there! That`s weird that the kids started the week with the term ending, I`m sure they did good though! We have started a new era in the mission. It is the last 6 months of President Prince as mission president, so he wants us to have the best six months in the history of this mission! Pres. Prince has really done a great job. In this last year we had something like 1300 baptisms and it was the best year that the mission has had in 25 years. We have had some great missionaries in the mission and now a ton of people are starting to finish their missions so that means things are going to start to change. New zone leaders are going to be called, a ton of people are going to be called as trainers to train all the new missionaries coming in, and the zones and districts are giong to be changed with all the missionaries going in and out. The district leaders are now going to start to be more important because the districts are going to be bigger with most of them having probably about 8 missionaries. The zone`s are also going to be a lot bigger and they are going to combine a lot of zones. Something like 40 missionaries are ending their missions in the months of January, February, and March, so we've got a lot of new people coming. I might end up training someone! We will see.. Not sure how much I would like that.
The theme of these last six months is called "La copa mundial" (the world cup). It is cool because they did a training for all the zone leaders and now they are teaching us all these soccer terms and comparing it with missionary work! A goal is a baptism, a corner kick is fellowshipping a investigator with the members, and just a lot of stuff like that! The goal of the theme is to have 1 goal per companionship each week! Or the average of that. The mission is going to start with the goal of 120 baptisms this month and we are going to increase by 40 baptisms each month. We have six months of doing that before Pres. Prince leaves and he wants us to finish the last month of his mission with something like 340 baptisms in the month. It would be the most baptisms in a month in the history of the mission!
I am pretty excited about all of the goals and stuff, but it will be difficult with all the missionaries with experience leaving! All of us have to step up and take the place of the people that are leaving now. With our investigators we are doing super good. Especially with the Lenis family, the have been going to church every sunday for the past month. The dad says he has felt a complete change in his life and that even the people that he works with say that he is a different person; talks different, is a more peaceful person. There are 6 investigators in this family, and we are hoping to baptize them all this month. We are going to set them all the goal for baptism tomorrow for the 25th of this month. Pray that this family can be baptized for that date and that they won`t have any problems. They are our family of Gold!! The Osorio family is also going good, but we haven`t been able to talk to them for a while because they have been super busy. We took out their files to get married, so we are planning an activity this week to raise the money for them. They of course don`t have the money to get married, but we are going to have Sister Osorio prepare some food and sell it to all the missionaries and hopefully raise the money to get them married and baptized this month! This month should be the month with the most baptisms that I have had so let`s hope we can keep on having success here. We had 11 people come to church with us again on Sunday, so we tied again with the most attendance that I have had in the mission! I know the mission is just about numbers, but it is just super satisfying to be able to work hard and then see the hard work pay off. I think part of it is because I am working good with my companion. It is so nice to have Elder Chavez a companion that is willing to go out and work.
Well anyways got to get going here. Got to go and see ya next week family!
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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