Church in El Carmen

We went to church in El Carmen today with Sister Epifania and Sister Chay.  They had a baptism after church that we got to attend. 

 

I Want to Be a Missionary Now

Saturday we went to a “mini MTC” for the primary kids in the Palermo Stake! It was a lot of fun. The kids were so awesome! They all had “future missionary” tags, and the adults who taught wore their own missionary tags. They asked President Christensen to share a little message about how to be a missionary now and how to prepare to be a missionary with each of the groups.

After the stake primary activity we went to a baptism that our AP's, Elder Milla and Elder Paredes, had. 

 

More Baptisms

 

Starting the Process for Transfers

Every 6 weeks, some missionaries go home, some new missionaries come to the mission, and some missionaries get new companions, or new areas to work in.  The process is called transfers (or cambios) in Spanish.  We are losing 10 missionaries and getting 7.  The AP's came to our home and we spent the entire day today playfully trying to figure out the best place for all the missionaries to serve.  We read letters from the Zone leaders (we have 8 zones and each zone has 2 leaders over it) about their recommendations for the missionaries in their zones.  We read the Hermana sister leaders letters about their recommendations about the sisters they lead.  We shared the information that we learned about them from the interviews that we did at the zone conferences.  The AP's shared what they knew about the missionaries from working with them and doing exchanges with them.  Information leads to inspiration.  And then we started making changes.  The transfer board is now digital so we had it on our TV screen and could drag and drop the missionaries into new areas, with new companions.  It took the whole day, but we got most of it done.  We are all going to keep looking it over, and pray about it to make sure the decisions we made are the best for each missionary.  

We fed the AP's while they were here

I was teasing the AP's that they were getting soft and didn't know how to do real missionary work anymore, so they sent me pictures after they left they house of the missionary work they were out doing.  They really are the best AP's!

 

Cinco Semena

When the new missionaries come to the mission, it can be very overwhelming.  So they get just the basic, abbreviated orientation, and then they are sent out to work with their trainers.  After they have gotten a feel for how the mission works, they come back to the office after being here for 5 weeks.  They get more intensive training about how to be a good missionary along with their trainers so they will know how to best train the new missionaries.  The AP's, zone leaders, and hermana leaders run the training.  It was a great day learning how to be a better missionary!