6 March 2011

with Elder Salisbury

Thanks for all the letters. I got a lot today, which helps because I was in a grouchy mood. I just waited 90 minutes so my comp could cut his hair in 10 minutes. Uhhhhh. In Uruguay Monday is the traditional day off for barber shops. There are like 5 around where we live, but only one is ever open on P-day. At least I got a few letters written.

This week went way, way better than last week. I’m tempted to make a blasphemous comment about how someone must be praying harder, but thanks to my increased level of maturity I’ll refrain myself – Alma 38 something, refraining passions.

We started the week with 2 baptismal dates and ended with 11. On Saturday while we were fasting we found 2 families – 7 new investigators. We invited them all to be baptized, and put specific dates with 5 of them. We visited another couple from earlier in the week and set baptismal dates with the 2 of them. Cool

We had a zone leader meeting on Tuesday. It really helped me to change my attitude. After I did that success came naturally. It is interesting how it all went down. The day after this meeting there was a leadership meeting for half of the mission. It was for the zones that aren’t in Montevideo. So they don’t have to travel hours home and come back the next day, they stayed in Montevideo. They did divisions with the elders in my zone, so on Tuesday we had 10 zone leaders working in our zone and we got double the work done. That was a huge blessing and a tender mercy for me.

Hey Grandpa, if the gossip I heard is right and accurate, Elder Arnold of the 70 went to 33 yesterday and made 33 a stake. I hope that makes you happy. It’s interesting that my current companion was in 33 and Pando, just like you.

My old area had another baptisms this week. Unfortunately, we didn’t. Hopefully we can get investigators to stake conference next week.

I’m kind of stressed out and in a hurry after spending 90 minutes in a barber shop, so this one will be done now. I’m not used to doing nothing for 90 minutes. It’s weird. I love you all. Thanks for the prayers. Keep up the good work.

Love, Elder Whitaker