Elder Preston Bruner

Wow. Week 40. I'll have been out 9 months tomorrow. CRAZY! This week has been pretty good! We put ourselves to work and were able to get 118 contacts this week! As a missionary, 118 seems like a pretty good number. Not the most we could get, but not the least at all! We have to work hard, especially this month, because in our mission we have a goal of 120 baptisms each month. We haven't reached the goal yet, and I'm not sure if the mission has reached it before, but this month with 5 weeks I know we'll be able to if we put our strength in our work!  This week we've found a few new investigators, and a couple of them are progressing! One of the investigators we have this week is named Hillary. She came to church this past sunday because a friend from school invited her! We set up a teaching appointment, and later that day, we visited her! It was a good lesson, and she accepted a baptismal date! I know that the spirit will help lead her and lead us as well to...

This week has been pretty good! It was a big week of meetings this week.  On Tuesday we had our interviews with President. The interviews always go well! We learn lots, and always receive suggestions to help in our sectors and in our companionships! Wednesday we had our district meeting, and it was focused lots on contacting. It was a good focus, because contacting is something we can always get better with! We did lots of practices, and we contacted almost everyone in our district so that we could find better ways to contact in our every day work! Thursday was interesting because Elder Carbajal had his autosuficiencia (autosufficience?) training. It's for all the elders that are finishing their missions this transfer. So I was grouped up with two other elders and we went to work in a sector. The sector we went to wwaaassssss....... CALLAO! We went to a sector in Callao called Heros, and it seemed like a calmer part of Callao. Nothing crazy happened to us there. It...