The computers here are not what I´m used to, but I guess I could
expect that from anywhere. At least they´re not like the ones I had in
Siquirres.
Anyway, that aside, I had an
okay first week. I still don´t quite have a feel for my area yet. I know
how to get to the cook´s house from the church and from our house but I
couldn´t find the bishop´s house if I tried. The first time I visited
his house it was dark, but I chose well. I showed up with Brownies and
he has a real sweet tooth. I am so happy to be here. Most of the
investigators here live far apart though. I have a plan to try and get
many investigators in one part, and not all over the map. Oh, speaking
of maps, the area here doesn´t have one yet. We went to talk to the
Municipalidad and now we have electronic ones. I´ve already asked a few
people where we can get a large one printed out, but no luck so far.
I´ll get back to you next week about it. I really just want to work
hard but with purpose. Many people say "work
smarter, not harder" I say "work smarter and Harder" don´t leave
anything
behind. ;) Put everything you have on the table. :) I really love my new
ward. there were 135 people in the chapel and they have a small chapel.
they actually have to open another room so that they can fit everyone.
This other room has a TV set up to a camera that is in the reunion
sacramental. The goal for the ward by the end of the year is 225
attendance. :D I´m gonna help them get that and they´ll be remodeling
the chapel to give them more room soon. The Principios del Evangelio
class was 100% to capacity. :)
On to my
companion. He´s pretty fun. I really think he has a great capacity to
love and is a good jokester. The first thing he told me about the house
was that it was bigger than the Secretaries´ house, but the whole house
is about the same size as room where Elder Hoover and I slept. In the
same space where I only went to for sleep we have bunk beds, bathroom,
shower, supplies, kitchen, etc. And when I showed up it was very dirty.
It´s getting better by the day because every moment I get I try to clean
something. We´ve planned a few hours later today to clean it, but I´m
not sure how dedicated Elder Valtierra is to the cause. Either way, I
can see him being a great leader someday in the future. Here´s just an
example of how I know. When President announced that the District
leaders couldn´t call the hermanas at night to get numbers it frustrated
him because our district has 3 companionships of sisters and 2 of
Elders (us and the Zone Leaders) so he felt as if he couldn´t do the
best he could for the District. I heard him struggle every night about
it until he came up with an idea to get the numbers and names and all
the information he needs. He then ran it by the Zone leaders to see if
we would be able to put it into practice and they, the Sister Training
Leaders and the other District leader all talked about it and came to a
conclusion about the proposal. I feel as if it is a great idea and
doesn´t overrun the rules in any way. He is very intelligent and really
cares to do the best he possibly can, but his sense of urgency is a bit
low. Mine was too though, so I´ll help him on that as I learn from the
many other things he can teach me.
My spiritual moment: All I can say is that I had a
cool moment with prayer. It was the day of the mission conference and
we took a mission Foto that Hermana Wilkinson has. The sun was very
bright and I just asked in my heart, for the Lord to put a cloud in the
way to see the eyes of all the missionaries. It then became a bit shady
and I thought a cloud had passed over the sun, but to my surprise, after
the picture, I learned that it was a small part of a tree and that it
literally only covered my part of the sun. Then, just a bit later there
was problems in the meeting with sound and I said a prayer and it was
fixed by the service center guys only a few seconds later. I love
prayer.
Anyway,
I just want to let everyone know that everything´s fine with me and I´m
being VERY obedient. I even found a cool scripture and wrote it on my
manual misional- D&C 66:11.
Love you,
Elder VanderMeyden
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