Week 42

Enjoying some Pina Coladas!

Wow it sounds like you are really having an awesome time over there in Philly!  As for me over here just a little ways East of Y'all I'm doing great!  This week was a pretty busy and crazy week, but it was a great week and we were able to get a lot done. 

  Well to start off the most surprising news was when on Sunday morning the Zone Leaders called for a transfer call.  But to my surprise Elder Ludwig is being transferred on Wednesday.  He is going to still be on the Memphis side so he will stay in the branch for his last transfer.  But I'm really looking forward to transfer meeting to see who I will get.  I will either get an Elder from Guatemala or from Idaho!  And of course Elder Heaton did not get transferred so we still get to serve right next to each other, it's been the greatest serving by him my whole mission.  

  This week was full of a lot of service about half of the morning we had to do some kind of service or help out with something in the Branch with the East Elders.  It's always a great opportunity serving and it keeps us busy all the time which is super nice.  The more service we give, the easier it is to have trust from the members which keeps the mission work most efficient.  We were able to teach Alvaro the Plan De Salvacion this last Thursday.  He really enjoyed it, and understood it really well.  He remembered the 3 kingdoms from church but had never been taught the rest.  At the end of the lesson we invited him to be baptized on 30 de Mayo and he accepted immediately without hesitating which was awesome!  So we are super thrilled to get him more prepared these next 2 weeks.  Also he came to church on Sunday and really enjoyed it, we should be teaching him again tonight!  

  For some other things in the week, we just did a lot of finding because we did a lot of walking.  So we have some pretty solid people for this upcoming week.  We also got a reference from a member in the ward, so hopefully we can go and see them.  It's so much easier to teach people when they already know members and are somewhat familiar with the church.  Also another story we were at a trailer park where a member lives at and the people we were going to see fell through.  So we decided we would try and go see them and just share a quick message and leave. It's called ITM (Inspire the Members).  But when we got there only she was there, and she was really sick.  So we were able to give her a blessing, and she was so happy because she said only God could have sent us there.  Sometimes we don't know why we do certain things, but following the spirit will always lead you to do the right thing!    Other than that, missionary work is great and I'm excited for this upcoming week!  

  Have an amazing week, and thank you so much for the email y update on your trip!  Love you so much!  Que tenga una buena semana, se cuidan! 

Love,

Elder Geddes