Week 45 Email: Chicken wings and Zone Conference

From: Christian.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Subject: Chicken wings and Zone Conference

Hey y'all and  Woezon to another weekly email from Elder Garcia! I hope that you enjoy. 

P.S. Thank you all for the birthday wishes! They definately made my Wednesday better!

Monday last week we had a stake activity that all of the missionaries from the Tokoin Stake were required to go to. So hence why I didn't write an email. But it was great nonetheless. It did rain all Monday too so that was a blast and it made it so that this week was a little bit colder than it has been. 

Tuesday my companion (Elder Mulamingu) and I went out to sector all day and it was pretty great. We were able to find a lot of new people and we were able to make every singe rendez-vous also! My companion is seriously so cool, and he likes to work really really hard so we walk really fast. At least for me it's fast. He's a lot taller than me so it's his normal pace haha. We also went to this elite restaurant and I got legit chicken wings with some nice spicy bbq sauce for lunch... I'll put a pic down below.

Wednesday was another great day. We had some rendez-vous that got cancelled but that's okay because we were able to reschedule them and because we had some free time we got to cal lots of people that hadn't been taught or months to see if they were still interested. We fixed a lot of lessons for this coming week so I am pretty hopeful that this week will be good as well. 

Thursday my companion and I did our weekly planning because this week we had Zone Conference. We talked about a lot of how we could find more amis and find better people to talk to also. Like I said before I have some hopes for this week haha. When we got out to sector, like normal, there wasn't much to do. Thursdays here are pretty dead but it just makes some time for contacting new peope too. So that's what we did.

Friday we had Zone Conference and I seriously love President Proudfoot and Soeur Proudfoot!! We talked a lot about how as missionaries and people in general if we do something so many times we jsut ecome robotic with it. And then we had some roleplays  of fixing how we were teaching and focusing on the main parts of what it is that we are here to teach. And then after Zone Conference we were able to go and teach people and apply what we learned and I feel like because of that our amis that we taught understood what is it that we taught a lot more. 

Saturday we got a lot of gray points sent over to us. (For those that don't understand the gray points in a mission they are people that were taught at one point but for some reason or another they got put as a not interested person) We called a lot of them, or those that had numbers and either got told off or got told that we could come by this week. We also went and visited lots of new members and it was great to see that they were still interested and ready to learn. The missionaries that were here before seriously prepared them to be converted. 

Sunday was a great day! We had so many people come to church this past week and it was cool to see new amis there too. And they told us that they would be comeing back this next week too! So, we hopeful. We got rained out for a second so we chilled under cover for a while, but when we went out and taught we found another new ami and taught an ami who comes to church every week but isn't always free. 

This week I wanted to talk about some thing that I learned from my mission president. A lot of times we overcomplicate things and then we stress out and basically make a problem worse than it actually is. But there's no need for that! Our Savoir went below everything and because of Him we have someone that knows what we're going through. So this week I am inviting you guys to turn to Him when something doesn't go exactly the way that you want it to. Instead of making it biger than it is think about the positives and turn to Christ and our Heavenly father. There is a plan for each of us and I know that it is the plan of God.

I love you all and I hope you have a great week this week!! And that you were able to understand this email... my brain feels kinda fried haha

Photos:

The comp

District Leader reunion fit

Zone Conference gang 

Some legitimate chicken wings