Hello from El
Salvador!
How is everyone doing? We had another hot, great, hot, fast,
and hot week down here in El
Salvador. I honestly walk down our road to
go out for the day and my shirt is just soaked, and then we get into people's
houses and it's mostly just tin roofs so it gets even hotter in the houses. But
I wouldn't have it any other way, I love this work. I will never be able to
repay my Heavenly Father for the blessings I receive and the knowledge that I
learn from the scriptures and other experiences I have every day.
This week we had a huge week planned. Our goals were 42
lessons total planned so that includes investigators with and without members
present and less actives. Friday and Saturday were our biggest days, and our
hardest and most discouraging. Saturday was Independence Day for Salvador and everyone
forgot to mention to us that is the worst days to proselyte and find people.
And all of the celebrations brought the worst in one of our investigators
again. We had a two o'clock lunch planned with Julio on Saturday, it was gonna
be a huge barbeque with burgers, hot dogs, chicken and whatever else he had.
But we showed up and he wouldn´t answer so we waited a while and went back,
still nothing but we found his wife and she told us he was drunk and probably
just didn't wanna talk to us. He is one of the nicest people I have ever met
but he just can't seem to get over this. He needs to have as much faith in
himself as we do. But those two days we had 19 lessons planned and only taught
8 lessons, and we never miss lessons...never. So that was pretty discouraging,
somehow we were still able to meet the numbers of excellence for the week
though. Our other investigators are doing great though. By the end of this week
we should have 5 investigators with a baptismal date within the next month so
hopefully that all works out too. But Mario and his dad (the kid we found bus
preaching) they are both way receptive and turns out the dad is a member of the
RLDS church or something but not active at all, and he just said that he
"likes everything here better and it feels more right" so that was
awesome news! But they love learning
about the church and hopefully they're gaining a testimony of these things as
well. So overall our investigators are doing really good!
This week we had stake conference too, and it was sweet! We
got to hear from the Stake President and some of his counselors and then our
Mission President and his wife! So the talks were great and I understood almost
everything so that was also a plus haha. A lot of the talks were about
persevering to the end, I can't remember how to spell that, and being a true
convert to the church. Those are probably my two favorite topics besides
missionary work ha. But they were great and just made me realize the importance
of always progressing in the church. And actually our zone conference which was
two weeks ago was about those same topics so I'm kinda thinkin there was
somethin in there that I need to learn so I'm trying my best to do that.
I don't really have any good stories from this week, we
found a huge frog yesterday, like huge twice the size of my fist ha. Some
cockroaches in the house..Oh this week we had great water pressure for like
four days. The water was just gushing out at a blistering 10 drops a minute so
that was nice. And last night we had a golf tournament (El Salvador Open with
sponsors from Missionary Mall, CTR clothing, Paper mate, Agua Cristal, Pop
tarts, and Kodak haha. We played with a paper football and on a par five
course. I shot a 91 so one over par ha I'll send some pictures of that. But
other than that not a whole lot happening.
I love you all and pray for you always, remember to be
thankful for everything you have in your lives. Learn to love the scriptures if
you haven't already.
¡Que Dios le bendiga!
Love,
Elder Jorgensen
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