Dear family!
You gotta love life, to answer some of the question you asked, first yes i get along very well with my companion, we will continue working hard we are going to see many miracles. I wrote a while ago back in Pilar that I had already gone to the temple so yes. And there is no such thing as junior zone leaders we are co-companions it's called. I got the package you sent and thank you very much it's what I needed. We have the for strength of youth but... it's not really put in practice here... maybe we could use that to try and convince some of the parents to parent better. And Dad ya I totally chose soccer of basketball it is so much fun we played this morning with a lot of people and it was fantastic! but I am so out of shape.
Sounds like Caleb got killed!!!!! Tyler is playing ball?
With a lot of respect to every Elder that has passed through this area... me and my comp are doing a lot of cleaning up here, the list of members is a disaster, and there are very many less active. It's kind of difficult to progress in the work here due to the situation that the elders have left our area in. We are working very hard and little by little seeing the fruits of our labors!! One crazy miracle that we saw this week was, I was looking through the area book and the member list and discovered a hidden colony that you can only get to by bus that had quite a few members out there. We decided to go check it out and this last week we found the family Sanchez... which consists of 6 families out there. And actived the whole colony. Yesterday in church almost all of them came!!! It was such a cool miracle when we get the rest of them active it will be like 15 people more in our branch! Here in ITA it is very easy to find new people and have them listen but impossible to get them to church.. I don't know why. We had over 25 people committed with a yes to go to church and 2 went. Don't get me wrong I put in practice alma 29:2 I think it is and I am very grateful for what God is giving us but I want to be better and have more.
We had interviews with president this last week to... I LOVE THAT MAN. He read me like a book, I didn't even say anything and he called me out on my weakness' and wrong doings. I feel like I have become a better person in my mission but he warned me in not to plateau. But he gave me a very great compliment. He told me that he put me in the zone to raise it up and animate everyone because it is struggling worse than any other zone in the mission.... and wow the numbers last night that we received were really bad! So I believe we will be doing interchanges this week a lot! I love the mission. I'm not perfect and far from it. I want to be a better person. Something funny this week, we were walking home after the day was over and we saw 2 completely wasted men that were laughing and dancing in the street. One of them bumped in to the other and got angry and they instantly turned enemies. They started fist fighting and it was the funniest thing to watch we just sat there and watched it for a while towards the end the both fell over on top of each other and started laughing and were best friends again. Ha I love the drunks, they are like little children. Forgive and forget. Oh and I found out today that my favorite guy in Pilar that me and elder Snow taught everything, he was 30 and named Gorge. But he got baptized last Saturday!!!!!!!!!!! I love that guy I am so going to write him. He will be a great leader! But here in ITA we have got some work to do before we will see much fruit! I love you family and thank you for the letters! Keep being awesome and write me.
Elder Shaw
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