On our Own
Don’t worry, the hand is healed and I am happily typing. We found an air conditioned cyber cafe with semi-new computers and they even bring you ice cream (if you ask for it). The only down side is the loud, somewhat distracting regatone music, but I’m over it :-).
Life is great in San Pedro. We worked our hearts out this week and had some great success. We set some goals and posted them on the wall along with the way we are going to achieve them. It was incredible to see the way Heavenly Father blessed us as we strived to do what we felt was his will. By the time Saturday came we had 4 different families committed to prepare for a baptismal date along with various other people. Of those people, 10 came to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday, where I conducted, my companion and I blessed the sacrement, played and directed the hymns, and the speakers? You guessed it, Elder McCarty and Elder Walker.
Doing things ourselves has sort of been a theme in our time here. There are no member to help with the work, to make us food, or to trust with our clothes, so we are housemakers, chefs, fully-responsable investigator finders and expert clothes washers in buckets with soap and clothes lines. Lots of fun in San Pedro. I’m also attaching the pictures of the house before and after we did all of our work on it. I should have taken some pictures inside but forgot to. Next week.
We had interviews and zone conference this week. In our interview, President invited me to read the missionary chapters of the book of mormon and take them as my work manual while I’m here in San Pedro, specifically to see “how those missionaries did things”. You should read them with me (I still have to find which they are, but lots in Alma, Mosiah, and I read this morning in Helaman 5). When you find the chapters, I’d love to hear which they are and your insights on how they did things to achieve such miraculous results!
I also felt the spirit deeply the day before we came out here as President knelt with us to pray and pleaded that we be blessed to establish the church, rapidly, here in San Pedro. He expressed to us that he KNEW this was the time for San Pedro to open and that we were the missionaries to do it. All we have to do is work hard and have faith that people have been prepared here for us! We set a plan this week to focus on the people of influence here in San Pedro (of course, never denying the gospel to anybody willing to accept it). President especially focused on the story of Ammon and his work with the king. I know that Heavenly Father has prepared people here that will become strong pillars of the church in San Pedro. Thank you all for everything! Love you!
Elder McCarty
Pics
IMG_0015 Here is our Apartment/Chapel before we did any work on it.
Don’t worry, the hand is healed and I am happily typing. We found an air conditioned cyber cafe with semi-new computers and they even bring you ice cream (if you ask for it). The only down side is the loud, somewhat distracting regatone music, but I’m over it :-).
Life is great in San Pedro. We worked our hearts out this week and had some great success. We set some goals and posted them on the wall along with the way we are going to achieve them. It was incredible to see the way Heavenly Father blessed us as we strived to do what we felt was his will. By the time Saturday came we had 4 different families committed to prepare for a baptismal date along with various other people. Of those people, 10 came to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday, where I conducted, my companion and I blessed the sacrement, played and directed the hymns, and the speakers? You guessed it, Elder McCarty and Elder Walker.
Doing things ourselves has sort of been a theme in our time here. There are no member to help with the work, to make us food, or to trust with our clothes, so we are housemakers, chefs, fully-responsable investigator finders and expert clothes washers in buckets with soap and clothes lines. Lots of fun in San Pedro. I’m also attaching the pictures of the house before and after we did all of our work on it. I should have taken some pictures inside but forgot to. Next week.
We had interviews and zone conference this week. In our interview, President invited me to read the missionary chapters of the book of mormon and take them as my work manual while I’m here in San Pedro, specifically to see “how those missionaries did things”. You should read them with me (I still have to find which they are, but lots in Alma, Mosiah, and I read this morning in Helaman 5). When you find the chapters, I’d love to hear which they are and your insights on how they did things to achieve such miraculous results!
I also felt the spirit deeply the day before we came out here as President knelt with us to pray and pleaded that we be blessed to establish the church, rapidly, here in San Pedro. He expressed to us that he KNEW this was the time for San Pedro to open and that we were the missionaries to do it. All we have to do is work hard and have faith that people have been prepared here for us! We set a plan this week to focus on the people of influence here in San Pedro (of course, never denying the gospel to anybody willing to accept it). President especially focused on the story of Ammon and his work with the king. I know that Heavenly Father has prepared people here that will become strong pillars of the church in San Pedro. Thank you all for everything! Love you!
Elder McCarty
Pics
IMG_0015 Here is our Apartment/Chapel before we did any work on it.
DSC05409 Here we are painting away the first few days we got there. You’ll see the final result. It actually didn’t turn out half bad.
011 In the plaza in downtown San Pedro. No idea who this guy is but he looks good in my hat.
013 Also in the Plaza, here is the sign for the city. It says, Capital of Cordiality under the name, and then, enjoy our hospitality. Turns out its true. Oh and if you look close, in the bottom right corner are the flyers we put up all over the town the first week we got here, and we even had one member who came the first Sunday because she saw one of them.
007 My companion and I outside of our newly painted chapel (on the left is the door to our apartment, which will be separated from the chapel).
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