Parker - October 9

Hey everybody!

So, this week has been interesting. 

Last Tuesday, we had District Meeting, and it was the first time we had the entire district there! Yeah, There are two elders in my district that live suuuuper far away, five hours in bus, so they haven`t been able to come to the district meetings. And something happened to their phone so we can´t call them and they can´t call us. We communicate by texting. 

But yeah, it was interesting, I based the entire thing on the Book of Mormon. I had each companionship prepare a lesson plan using just the Book of Mormon, without any pamphlets or using the Bible, in order to help them see that we can use the Book of Mormon in every lesson, and it can teach whatever point of doctrine that we need. it was really cool. 

It was also one of the elder´s birthday, so we had a cake that my comp made from a cake mix he got in his package from home. 

I`m sending pics of the District Meeting. 

Also, in order to help us find a few more investigators here, we did something called a Tormenta Blanca here, which means "White Storm." So two elders and two sisters came over to our area and helped us contact a whole bunch of people, so now we have a few more potential investigators to try and visit. And now, EVERY area in the district wants to do a Tormenta Blanca, so that`s gonna be fun. 

Then we tried really hard with one investigator named E, to get baptised, but it`s so weird, he and the only other real investigator we have, J, are like basically ready, totally ready, and they want to get baptized too, just for some reason, they want to put it off. Sigh, it`s rough. 

But yeah, and then my comp got to a year in the mission last week, so we burned a shirt of his. (I didn`t do that, there was no space back in Aguilares.) But yeah, it was fun. Even though he just recently he got to a year, he`s probably ending the mission with me, cuz he needs to get back and go to school. 

Other than that, the only interesting things that happened this week are that a bunch of missionaries in our zone went home a week before the transfer ended. Not because they broke a rule or anything, they just went home a week early. Cuz of the whole extensions thing. I knew like half of them, one of them, the Zone Leader, was a good friend of mine, he was also my zone leader in Tucumán. 

Anyway, I love you all!

Elder Blaylock