June 4, 2012

Weird.

So we moved. Being so far away I feel like I am going to go home to that house anyway though. It probably won't hit me until I get home in a very long time. So I will probably not think about it for now. It will probably just feel like another transfer. But moving must be a complete nightmare. How long did we live there? Like 15 years, right?

Well this week was another fast week. We went to Bahìa Blanca for the last leadership training meeting with President Detlefsen before he finishes. It was awesome like always and I learned a ton of things from those that taught us (President and the Assistants). My zone is the biggest zone though so it's slightly overwhelming. However, it helps that we have some awesome District Leaders who are very hard workers and know what they are doing. Elder Sanchez and I are doing our best to encourage them and help and lead each one of them and their missionaries to have success. Each night, we talk to each one on the phone to see how the day went. We also go on splits once a week with one District Leader at a time to see how they work and help them amplify their vision and improve whatever things we see necessary to improve, and we have a meeting with them every two weeks to discuss ways to work more efficiently in the zone and ways to train the missionaries so they can achieve their goals and have more success. I really enjoy it because it is helping me grow in many ways. In Viedma it was very different because I lived with half my zone!

Well anyway, when we got back, I got really sick like dad is today. I could hardly walk on Wednesday, I felt so weak. And Thursday I was only sort of better. Friday, we did splits and Elder Sanchez traveled to a little city called General Pico to do a baptismal interview, and so Saturday was the first day we actually got to work in our area a full day. So we went out with this member kid named Lucas who is 18 and getting ready for the mission and he went along with us to 7 lessons. It was a good day.

This upcoming Saturday, Julieta Haag, our investigator that is 9 years old, is getting baptized. Her older siblings are already members and have been attending church pretty regularly for the past month or so, so we are baptizing Julieta! It is going to be great. Then for next week, we are going to work with Yarko, another investigator of ours, so he can get baptized!

It's been tough trying to get used to my area and the work and the huge responsibility of being a leader in such a big zone. It's been a struggle because I have missed Viedma so much and it's just not the same here. The people don't treat us the same at all and we have run into a lot of interestingly tough situations with the work. But I know the Lord has called me here for a reason. I know that there are people here, waiting to receive the restored gospel. Just like they were waiting in Pehuajò and Viedma. But I think the Lord is asking more of me this time. More sacrifice. So please pray for Julieta and Yarko and I will send pictures of their baptisms!

That's all.

Chau.

-Elder Garrison