His family so we're heading back from the interviews with San Marcos and San Pedro and I thought I’d take the long drive to write. We’ve been helping President all week with interviews and I finally got a chance to write. It might be a weird email because I’m writing without looking at the screen. After all, the light hurts my eyes from riding in the dark and writing. So this week is about last week. We’ll see if I can remember it…. (just a little addition, I would not suggest trying to type a letter while driving down from a mountainous area. I got a little sick and I lost all of our dinner…. Lesson learned. Well maybe not because I’m back at it today only it’s in the daytime we’ll see how it goes.)
This week was full of councils and planning sessions. We went to La Maquina last P-day so that we could get the projector and everything.
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Long drives, Make you tired. I´m not quite sure what was happening here….
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| Elder Wilcox´s invention so you´re fingers don´t get stained while eating taquitos. |
Then on Tuesday and Wednesday, we had a meeting with the Zone Leaders and Hermana Leaders and District Leaders as well. On Tuesday we had a meeting with the ZLs and HLs. We had an awesome message. We decided to talk about how to teach ‘‘BY’’ The spirit instead of only ‘‘with the spirit’’. Everyone has felt the spirit testify while we testify of the truths. But it is a rare experience you can feel the Spirit literally putting words in your mouth. So we decided to teach how we can teach following exactly what the spirit wanted us to say. Teaching, finding, and testifying by The Spirit. That was the theme. We used 2 Nefi 32:2-3, 2 Peter 1:21, and 2 Nefi 33:1 to emphasize teaching by and not just with The Spirit.
The plans we ended up coming up for the meeting were resisting all the month of April, and the BRILLANDO in May. So our plan is that every companionship baptizes the first Semana of May so we’re working on finding lots and lots of new people to teach!
On Wednesday we had a District Leader meeting for all of the District Leaders and their companions. We had a big meeting and then we broke up into groups. We taught them about how to have good reunions. The Zone Leaders from Las Palmas and Reu taught about doing interviews and as well as telephone calls. Basically, we talked about how to be an effective District Leader because we have a lot of new leaders this change. But they are all super good missionaries! Like Elder Smith and Elder Ormsby, they are excellent missionaries! And my son Elder Lagos is now a District Leader! So Fathers joy I feel pretty good about that! Also, I don’t know if I mentioned that Elder Fickes, Elder Steiner, Elder Camargo, and Elder Keck are now Zone Leaders which is super cool! They’ve been doing miracles in their Zones!
The big focus of the mission has been learning the Living Christ. It’s given the mission a ton of strength teaching, testifying, and preaching of Christ. I’ve now memorized it both in English and Spanish. You feel such power just barring that powerful witness of Christ to everyone.
On Thursday we had to deal with some issues in some zones. We have started a new thing of attacking all forms of disobedience at the moment it occurs. So we went and visited Reu and San Felipe. We talked to the Zone Leaders and the people we needed to talk to.
Friday, we had a meeting with President Ruiz to go over some emergency changes. We shut an area and put Hermanas in it and then we took the Elders to their new areas.
We moved Elder Adams to Mazate with Elder Shupe and then we brought Elder Damas back to the office. We then had some time to work in our area. Well actually my companion worked in the area and I went with Elder Cancino to El Codo to do an interview with a sister that was so prepared! She was amazing!
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| Our Chapin Photo going to El Codo with Elder Cancino elder Elggren and my companion. |
Then we ate hocotes! They’re little fruits and they can be super bitter and sour when they’re green and really juicy and sweet when they’re red and ripe.
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| Bananas bananas and bananas!!!!! |
On Saturday we had another meeting with President to plan all of the Interviews for the next week which has been crazy! It has literally taken up every second of the day for a full week! Then we headed to take the clothes of Elder Adams that he had forgotten. Then we headed to plan our message and we finished the day working in our area! It was great!
This week we actually got to go and work in our area 3 times! The three people we found are pretty cool! Berly, is pretty cool the only problem is that she lives in a church. Yah…. it’s pretty common here. But the good thing is she doesn’t attend there! So we’re going to see what happens. Walter seemed pretty cool, he said he had been to church a bunch of times! However, the second time we went we found out that he wasn’t really an investigator but a less active member! So we’re going to keep working with him! We had a couple other people we had been visiting but they haven’t been progressing so we’re still on the search!
Sunday was pretty good, however, we had to send a missionary home. So that’s what we did on Sunday. Hopefully, he comes back to the mission in a couple months though.
Life’s been good! My companion is amazing and we’ve been working super hard with all of the mission. The church is true!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
Addition:
I just realized that I haven't said anything about conference yet! This week we've been able to listen to conference everywhere we go! My favorite talks have been Elder Bednar's about Baptism the talk about going to the Rescue by Mervyn B Arnold about going to the rescue. I loved it because there are so many times where plans are made or people meet up and talk about doing something but it never actually gets done! We need to just go out and get it done! I loved it! Also, Elder Nelson's talk about priesthood power was amazing! I loved it so much and I decided that I am going to constantly do the little thing so that I can achieve the priesthood power that he spoke of. I also loved the talk about WHERE ARE THE KEYS!? We've started teaching everyone about authority using his example and it's helped a lot of people understand it! Life is great! I LOVE CONFERENCE!!!!!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
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