Monday, February 6, 2017

Week 14 - WORK (1/30/2017)

So this week has been extremely excellent!! So to start off we have had a lot of changes here in the mission and they have been really awesome!! We now have two extra hours on P-Day to do everything we need, which for us means more fun time. We also have our agency back! We get to choose how our schedule looks and when we do our studies and everything that follows. This allows us to be a lot more flexible when we go to talk with investigators, members, less actives, and even dinners. Which is so awesome!! We get to choose what we get to do!! Once we saw all these changes, we had a discussion on them and they were in play on Wednesday when we had heard about them. We were told by the first presidency to do so and so we did. Also we are allotted more exercise time. Which is nice too. This has been interesting news to hear throughout this week. On another note, we got our car taken away from us. They took the beautiful Corolla that we had and gave it to some sisters. It made me sad cause I really liked that car. They gave us a Cruze for compensation but it's not the same. It feels a lot like the Kia my family used to have. Which is nice at least, but I don't have all the cool things that the Corolla had. Sad day for us :'( But we did get work done!! We spent all week setting up appointments, finding people, contacting, and teaching people which has been really great!! We have set up for this week to go on splits with the Elders Quorum presidency to meet some Less Actives, Part Member Families, and investigators that we have been teaching. This coming week will be a big week of work. We are so ready for this!! As well in some down time that we have I did pick up the guitar and I am slowly improving on how to play it. It's a little difficult, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. It's a good thing I can learn by ear. A lot of stuff is going down in mission and it's exciting to see, can't really say much about it because it will happen in due time. Well some other good news is that my Spanish has been really progressing. I have pretty much been taking initiative since I know the area to start conversations just like my trainer taught me too. Elder Rust is starting to get comfortable with the area and meeting with the people which is awesome. This area has got a lot of potential and we will be getting down to work and getting people to come to church. It may sound bad like that, but we aren't going to steal their agency from them. That's one thing we are not allowed to do. Haha but anyways some other things that happened this week that were awesome is that we finally got in contact with one investigator who we think has a lot of potential. Elder (Brother) Sarabia and I tried contacting and tried to visit, but every time we had caught him at the wrong time or just as he was leaving. We finally did and sat down and just had a conversation with him. He's really open to learn and we feel he might be one that will be willing to take the discussions. Like I've said, this area has a lot of potential. We'll be getting a lot of work done, especially now with the sisters area back in our hands. We will be taking things up a notch and getting things done!! This is really exciting and we are looking forward to it. A scripture to end things off with, is something that we have been hearing all week long with Stake Conference and everything. D&C 64:33 " Wherefore be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week this week full of love, hope, and sunshine!!
Elder Ruesch
P.S. Here is a little clip of Elder Ruesch (Jeffrey) playing the guitar. 

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