This week was another one full of suprises. Transfers were today. We´ve been working long and hard on putting the right missionaries in the right spots with the right companions for the last few weeks and today we announced them to everyone. Little did I know President had a little suprise for me as well.
Like you´ve known for the last 6 weeks i´ve been an assistant, and traveling around the mission working with all the elders and helping out our cause here. It´s been great, I´ve had so many wonderful memories and have seen a lot of miracles. It´s been one of the coolest transfers I´ve ever had. As a mission we tied the record for baptisms in a single month with 123 baptisms! In all reality we shattered the record because the last time we broke the record we had 5 weekends to do it, and this month we had 4. And not only that Febuary and January are normally the worst months for baptisms. The record for Febuary in our mission was 66. (we almost doubled it!)
President gave us a great compliment for the achievement. Pretty cool. Anyways about the suprise, he´s given me and my companion Elder Frost new callings to open a new zone here in the mission. We´ll still be here in the offices with our responsibilities in the mornings but we have a new ward and proselyting area, and we are the new zone leaders of the new zone. It´s going to be quite a responsibility! Being an assistant will be looked back on as a slice of cake compaired to this. But i´m up for it, and I´m glad President has the trust and confidence in me to do it.
Sunday we got to go to our new ward and meet the members. The bishop asked us to speak and we gladly accepted. It was great. I love the new ward, they seem like wonderful people. The chapel is awesome because although church built, it´s a lot smaller than the other chapels in Mendoza and it makes for a really neat invironment. Everyone is close and packed into the sacrament room, instead of seeing a huge oversized chapel with 50 people in it. Sometimes I wonder if the church expected more growth than we´ve seen because of the size of the chapels. I mean HUGE chapels, and most if not all are under an attendance of 120. I suppose they built them for the future as well. But anyways in the little chapel the spirit is just so much stronger than when there is a family on every other pew if you know what I mean.
Friday we started working in the area itself and found some great people. We taught a girl who recently was invited by her friends to a girls camp in Lujan (I think Hna. Lindahl put pictures of that conference on her blog). She since started reading the book of mormon and friday we had an amazing lesson with her. We felt the spirit so so strong, as she told of her feelings she had been experiencing while investigating the church. She told us she wants to get baptized, but is scared because her family will disown her (their stout catholic). We had her read a few pasages from the book of mormon, and told her tonight after she read them to pray with all her heart that her family would understand her, and know what she was doing was right. Sunday at church she came up to us very shyly (shes a very shy girl) and fighting back tears told us thank you and that she had received an answer to her prayers that same night. So cool! I just have been praying so much to be able to get out and have my own area again before I finished the mission and I received it, and I´m not going to take it for granted!
This week is Vendimia week. The festival of the grape harvest. It´s the biggest celebration of the year here. The festivities are supposedly great, we´re hoping to be able to take part in some way or another. Hopefully President will let us go to the parade and get to see it. I´ll probably never get another chance to do it. Actually..... he just walked in the room and said yes we can go! WOO HOO! Haha. I´m not sure what they do but I´ll let you know!
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