BUSES, BUSES, & MLC

August 7, 2017

[Week of July 31 - August 6]

Well my companion has 29 days left. You could say he's dead....jk he's doing great!

Monday - So today we played a lot of sports and it was a really good day. I got to see a bunch of people from Alcorcon too. After P-day ended we went home and then had a lesson with Fatima and Edison. They are so awesome. We taught them lesson 2 or the Plan of Salvation and they loved it. We put them on date for the 26th of August so we are pretty pumped for them. Then we hung out with Saul for his birthday. We took him to McDonald's and let him get whatever ice cream he wanted and we paid for it. He's a super cool guy.

Tuesday - So today we had Missionary Leadership Council (MLC). It was a really great meeting and honestly it was a spiritual feast. We had to get up at five to be able to get to the mission home on time but it was worth it. We were there until like 5 at night and then we waited for the bus to come and take us back to our area. 

Photos from MLC

After returning our lesson failed so we decided to play some ball with a bunch of these Dominican guys. It was pretty fun. Luckily none of them were very good so our team usually won. Haha!

Wednesday - So this morning we went to Aranjuez for District meeting. We as zone leaders go and visit all of the districts in our zone to see how they are doing in their district meetings. It was great to finally go back to years after leaving my first area. The memories were strong and it was really good to be home. Following the District meeting we were on the bus home when there was a wreck in front of us. So, normally that wouldn't be a big deal because we are on a nice big air conditioned bus right? Well, our air conditioning was broken and we were on that bus for about 2 hours in 100 degree weather. I was so sweaty. Haha! Then we had English class. It actually went pretty well, we have a good size class. Then, we met with our new friend Marcos. He lives with a member family so the previous missionaries have just always thought he was less active. But, he's actually a really good guy, we taught him the Restoration and he seems like he's gonna progress pretty well.

Thursday - This morning we did weekly planning. Then we ate lunch with some members from Arequipa, Peru. They thought it was pretty awesome that dad had served there. After that I went on an intercambio with Elder Lowden. He's from Rigby, Idaho. He's been out for basically a year. We had a really good intercambio. We went to a less actives house and talked about the Restoration. Then we ate dinner with them. Then we went to play some fútbol. We had a really fun intercambio.

Friday - This morning we had a couple of lessons. They were both with some less actives here in the ward. We had some really spiritual lessons. Then I got back with Elder Erickson for lunch. Then we did some pass-bys in the afternoon. Then we had Correlation and then we had a ward family home evening. We shared the message and then afterwards we played fútbol with the young men. Then we went and visited a part member family, their name is the Madrid family. They are super awesome. We read the Book of Mormon with them and made the commitment for them to come to church.

Saturday - This morning we did a ton of pass-bys. We ended up finding this super less active family and the ended up coming to church on Sunday. It was Awesome! Then in the evening basically all of our lessons failed us. We taught a lady named Maira but she kinda just wanted to Bible bash the whole time.

Sunday -  Church was really great today. We had some investigators there and our people that are progressing towards baptism were all there. We are seeing so much success right now it's amazing! So tonight we had a pancakes activity that we helped to start this week and we had a great turnout. We shared a simple message and then we got to know people. We played games and it was really great.

Monday - Today we played bball in Pavones. It was really fun!

Love,
Elder Harris

DyC 4:3