All in all, this week has gotten better with respect to mish work. E. Acevedo and I have a pattern, but I need to adjust it a bit - I need to let him talk, so that he can develop! Many times, I just do things because it's easier - but it's his training, not mine, huh? I've already proven I can do all of the mission tasks relatively well - gotta let the newbie take the ropes, I guess. The numbers for this week were still way lower than I liked, but hey - we're steadily improving in all aspects. Woo!

The main lesson I've learned this last week is courage. The Ward Mission Leader here likes to talk about an expression his mission president used a lot, which is "Would you like that with sugar, or without sugar?", to which the missionaries would reply "With salt!". Sounds like a question Dad would use, huh? But it's also applicable to our lessons. I've changed my teaching method to just make all the claims that will rock the investigators' worlds right up front - and it's working a lot better. For instance: "We believe that this church is the only true church on Earth, and that only this church has the authority given by God." That one helps a lot for sorting out people who are willing to give our message a chance. We've also been improving our ability to ask inspired questions, and let the investigator think while we teach them. It's made lessons much more spiritual, and I've got a feeling we might be baptizing soon (finally!).

We've also been walking TONS. Since we've been getting references in every end of this extremely large area (tons of references here!), much of our time spent is walking nowadays. We've seriously walked more than 3 miles 4 days out of 7 last week. The bed's feeling pretty nice nowadays...:P But on to work! I'm really thankful I don't have to work to get my companion out of bed.

More later and lots of love,

Erich