Buenos Dias a todos!
Wow, I always am amazed at how life can somehow get busier all the time!! Before I'd be busy all day long but at least get to rest a little bit when I got home at night. Now after planning I get to make all kinds of nightly calls and I hardly have time to even write in my journal before I go to bed. But it's fun and I enjoy the time helping out my district and getting them excited about making goals and getting more work done than ever before! Mesa as a zone is really taking off here, and everyone is honestly getting pretty excited - I don't know if I've ever seen President Howes so excited before. As soon as we got here, he said he was expecting big things as a zone and we now have 26 or so people on-date for baptism and Elder Johnson and I had 6 in the past two days... So life is good, and we're really trying to keep everything going, keep people progressing, and stay super humble - Because it's the Lord that does all the work and we're just out to harvest.
So last week on St. Patrick's Day was Elder Johnson's birthday and we had an amazing day! We had an incredible amount of lessons, found a ton of new people to teach, and had members with us for good fellowship. The funniest story of the day I have to say was teaching this lady named Yanira - she has this little boy Oscar who was running and yelling back and forth and carrying cups of water around. Anyways, he stopped all of the sudden in the kitchen and had this way helpless look on his face as he slowly slipped and then fell down on his face. His mom rushed over and said ya sabes decir "pee pee"! You already know how to say you need to go to the bathroom! So...right there he wet his pants and then sadly fell first right in his own mess - so in a completely mature and missionary-like way we found the whole situation extremely funny and busted up laughing as soon as we got outside. It was cool finding so many new people this week and seeing what it takes to get in people's houses. We're getting decent at teaching the first lesson since that's all we seem to do...
But on another note, we have more exciting news - Fatima, an investigator who has been investigating for months and months and been through many many missionaries, accepted a baptismal date for April 16th!! So she is going to be baptized then with her 3 little girls. She's never accepted a date like that before, and we had a member with us for an incredible lesson on Monday. I don't think I've ever had a more spiritually intense lesson in my entire life!
Oh, and this last week Ana and Pedro accepted a date for April 9th and they came to church for the first time. They're basically my favorite people ever. Anyway, for their first time at church we had a long sacrament meeting with really long talks given by people that were really really struggling with spanish (i think they were stake leaders). It was painful to listen to, but that wasn't even the worst part. Our last class of the day? A smack-down lesson on pornography and addictions! it was also given by people that couldn't speak well, and it was pretty intense, but thankfully Ana and Pedro are super strong and they just found it all very interesting. Apparently Elder Johnson and Matheson found them when they were going to check out a referral way down south and found out the address didn't exist. When they were deciding what to do, some lady at a nursery called out to them and ended up introducing them to Ana. Miracle.
We also found 2 people outside their place yesterday, taught them, and they accepted a baptismal date for April as well so we're just going to have to keep working with all these people, and doing absolutely as much as we can to get them solid fellowship and keep them progressing in the gospel. I love having a smaller area and being able to make more consistent contact with all the people we're teaching. One of the joys of being here and on a bike.
So I'm still getting to know the ward but life is good and we're doing all we can here!
hasta la proxima,
Elder Carlson
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