Thanks for all the birthday wishes! It is hard to believe that in 3 days I am already 21 years old! The time is flying by and the mission is starting to come to an end. Today they announced the transfers... Drumrolll.... I am staying in Pasto! I am staying here with Elder Amasifuen still so I am pretty content and fine with that.
One of our zone leaders is getting transferred to Cali and guess who is coming to be our zone leader: Elder Pancheri, my first companion in the mission! We started the first 6 months of the mission together and have barely seen each other since, but looks like he will be coming to Pasto now and we will probably be finishing up the mission here in Pasto! I am excited to see my good ol buddy Elder Pancheri again and even though we won´t see each other a ton still, it will be nice to be in the same zone again.
Well now about this week, THANK YOU for the prayers and fasting because this was the week we needed here in Pasto! We finally had people come to church (7 investigators compared to 0 last week) and we put 3 baptismal dates and have 2 solid families that we are teaching! I know that yours prayers helped and we hope we can now start to have success here. One of the families we are teaching is the sister of our recent convert Maria Edilma, and the other is a reference of one of the less actives we are teaching. We are starting to realize that if we work through the converts and less actives, we not only strengthen them, but we also find golden investigators. The other baptismal date we put is a reference of another less active (the one that is in the volcano picture I sent) and is golden golden and will be baptized for sure in August.
On Sunday we had a prayer in our hearts all morning hoping that we would have investigators come to church. We went to one of the families and knocked on the door at 8:30 hoping they would be ready for church like they said they would. I was just praying they would be ready as we knocked on the door, but of course they were in PJs and just getting up! They told us they weren´t going but I wasn´t giving up that easily. I said "no you guys told us that last week and you made this commitment with God, go get ready and we will wait for you!" I told this to the daughter and after that the mom came down and said they weren´t going but we just kept on persisting and telling them all the blessings that they would be missing out on and finally the mom gave in and started getting everyone ready. It was a huge relief that she finally realized she needed to go to church and I know that God answered our prayers! Sometimes you just have to persist through things. Most people don´t realize the blessings they are going to miss out on, but at least we do and we should help them know that right?
Well got to get going here, but thanks for the letters and prayers! Keep praying for us this week, and I know that we will start to have success. I am dead tired right now because we just got done playing almost 4 hours of soccer, but it was fun and I think I am starting to get better (even though everyone makes fun of me when I try and kick a goal and it goes the complete opposite direction!) Hope ya all have a good one!
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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