I have decided elders are not my friend in the mission field. So I'll start with this
story so we can just move on from it. So work here in Tonelero is pretty hard, We don't
have many investigators, and we have one that went to church a few weeks ago and gave
Hermana Ladd a few scriptures to read, it was a little weird, and then we couldn't find
him. Well last Thursday we went to see where he lived. It's kinda hard to explain but
he lives in the house of a member, we went to see her and she wasn't feeling very well,
so we offered to have the elders pass by for her the next day and give her a blessing,
she said she would like that so we set an appointment to come back and see José (our
investigator) and left... we called the elders to tell them they had an appt and that in
this place lives a few of our investigators, we told them their names and then said
there were a few other people there they could teach... but not to touch José and the
other 2 who are our investigators! Well later the next night they call us all excited,
they found a new investigator at the house of this member, he just so happens to have
all the church attendance he needs to get baptized... guess what his name is... JOSÉ I
was like um guys he is our investigator, and they were like well we taught him and put
a baptism date with him, but we will talk to president. So they called president and
all he did was laugh and said just work it our between you all and your district leader.
Well background on my district leader, he hates hermanas, in fact I've had a few elders
tell me how much this district leader hates me and hated Hermana Ladd, only because we
are hermanas, seriously we haven't done any of that annoying sister missionary stuff,
it is just because we are girls! So when they told me that they had to work it out with
him, I knew all my chances of keeping one of my few precious investigators was gone!
Well the next morning I get a call from my district leader demanding me to give up José,
the next half an hour we were on the phone, not talking in hushed tones... I haven't
lost my patience that bad in a long time!! Well it didn't matter how much I explained
according to president's rules José is our investigator. Elder Empey kept saying it
doesn't matter... I made the decision... Well so this last weekend I lost one of our
precious investigators, I made a comment to the elders that this wouldn't have happened
to us if we were elders too, and they all said you're right, this only happened to you
guys because you're sisters! I was so mad!! So yeah, I don't have very friendly
feelings toward my district leader!! OK now that I've gotten that story out of the way, we'll get to the fun stuff... Really
nothing much else happened this week, we had zone conference, it was alright, all
president talked about was numbers... because we are currently trying to double the
baptisms from last year, and we only have 5 weeks left to do it, and he talked about all
the baptisms we all need to get to reach the goal, and it kind of stressed me out!
Well after that this losing my investigator happened. But then Monday was a good day,
we spent the day walking... A LOT But we were ending it with our 2 investigators who
are awesome, their only problem is they need to get married! Well we were knocking on
this one door and this dog came up to us and dropped a rock in between my comps feet,
it was really weird, she got scared and kicked it away, but not very far, the dog was
not impressed... so he came over to me and put it right on top of my shoe... haha I got
the hint, he wanted to play!! I kicked it far away and the dog went running after it,
we stood there playing kick the rock for like 5 min... it was really fun but we had to
get back to work! We ended that night going to see Romina and Richard, with one of our
members... it was an amazing powerful lesson... we watched the restoration, and it was
so good and at the end I asked Richard what he thought about all this and he said it's
true... I put a baptism date with him and he accepted and was super happy, his wife
didn't accept yet, she is a little afraid for the big decision and feels like she needs
more time... but they both still have to get married and she loves reading the Book of
Mormon and going to church, so she will get baptized with him... things will work out
great... as long as the elders don't steal them too!! Alright well that's about all I have time for, sorry about the lame letter, oh yeah
Brian was asking me for details about my comp... she is way cool we laugh a lot!! She
is from Colorado and has about 6 months in the mission! We have fun together! Maybe I
will send pics some day!! Well I hope all is well, Love ya Hermana Gosnell