Week 62

We have had problems finding our investigators this week, but we were able to visit less actives houses and a couple investigators with the members every single day this week, so that was awesome. The days went by super fast because we were going from lesson to lesson to meeting to lesson.

Also this week, we went to the leader meeting with the presidents and afterwards the president came to our house to surprise inspect the house! The good thing is, we had cleaned like 2 days before and the house was spotless, so the only thing the president and his wife told us we needed to do was throw away the old books and liahonas that we have. (We have tons of liahonas, all the way since 1987)

We have like 3 family home evenings planned this week with the members and investigators so we`re going to et good this week!

Anyways, thanks for the letters everyone!

Elder Pollock

Week 61

My new compaion is awesome, he has like 7 months in the mission, he`s from Las Vegas, and he went to BYU Provo before the mission. We`ve already done a lot of great things here in only one week!

One really cool thing was yesterday, we were next to our house at night at 8:53, and we had 7 minutes until we were supposed to return to the house to plan and go to bed, but instead of going home early, we decided to knock one last door. When we knocked a 25 year old lady came out and said ¨hey i`m camila, finally you guys passed by again, i`ve been reading the book of Mormon and i have a lot of questions.¨

She also has friends that have gone on missions and she is super interested in the church.

We`re going bowling today and going to play some pool so i`ll send pictures of that next week!

Lately, i`ve been reading from the teaching of Brigham Young book, and it`s really good. I`ve learned a ton from it, so i would reccomend it to anyone.

Elder Pollock

Week 60

Changes! I`m staying! But my companion is leaving. I`m going to be companions with Elder Truman, who has like 9 months in the mission. I`ve already met him before and he`s a super cool guy! In our house, we`re going to have all gringos again, 4 of us, and one of them is just starting the mission so that`s going to be a pàrty. 

Lately, we`ve been playing chess in the house for p days and in the night so i`ve ben getting pretty good. Only 1 elder in the house has beat me before. I`m basically a chess wizard now.

I`ll give more of an update next week on everyone because i`m running out of time, but i finally got pictures this week! This Is an awesome wool jacket that i bought with wolves on it. it only cost like $25.

Until next week

Elder Pollock

Week 59

It`s august already! Time`s flying by, i feel like july didn`t even exist. It`s super wierd to be in august with hail, rain, wind, lightning and cold! This winter is definitely not as wet as last winter, but it`s a lot colder. I usually wear my thermals, my white shirt and my dress pants, a sweater, 2 coats, rain pants on top of my other pants, a scarf, hat and gloves. I`ve been in colder weather before, but it`s different in the mission because we`re outside a lot of the day, as opposed to while i was at home or at byu, i would always be playing a sport, inside the house, a car, a retaurant, etc. Some days we`re outside for 4 to 5 hours straight so we have to wear tons of clothes to keep warm.

The people we found 2 weeks ago juan and jakelyn are super awesome. We found out that jakelyn is a less active from a long time ago, and that juan is not a member. We gave them a new book of mormon, and they both came to church this sunday. Jakelyn even went up and shared her testimony in front of everyone of how she knows she needs to come back to the church and help her husband! 

Also, Francisco, a less active that has been returning to the church since before last cambio, has been doing super well also. He`s still on the path for going on a mission, and we teach him a lot. We`ve even got his less active brother and sister to come to church with him also. He has a huge desire to go on a mission and i`m super excited that we`ve been able to help him with that. 

Elder Pollock