Elder Preston Bruner

This week was great! It's gonna be hard to fit in everything and include pictures as well!  We started out the week by finding 2 new investigators every day! So y wednesday we had 6 new investigators! It was a great experience that hadn't happened much in this sector for a while, so it was a good way to get excited about the work again! We had made goals to change the way we worked, and also contacted, and it resulted well! We have been teaching smaller lessons in less than 10 minutes in the door of houses if needed, so that we can have more people in our teaching pool! It has been awesome teaching a part-member family this week. Hermano Angel and his brother Marcos, and the daughter of Marcos, whose name is Dulce. They are an awesome family! Hna. Angel served a mission here in Peru during a very difficult time, and he shared his stories of the misison about when there was terrorism in the country, and it was very spiritual to hear all the service they did and help the...

This week has been great! I hit my 10 month mark in the mission! Crazy. How crazy.  Well, even though the work is a bit slow in the sector, that doesn't mean that the mission is bad or anything. It's the opposite! It means we are setting goals to change how we work and setting goals to find more people to teach in the sector! I am so glad that Elder Morales is my companion, because he has such a great desire to work and he also is just a great Elder! The week goes by fast with him. We get together well, and have similar interests! We've gotta make sure we don't get distracted though haha. It's easier to get distracted when you have common interests :P Last Monday (after getting kinda lost in the center of lima and taking a taxi to get back to our house haha) we were able to have a lesson with one of our recent converts, Alberto. It was a great lesson, and we were able to help him use the application for scriptures better, and now he's more interested an...

This week has been great! To start it all off, I'M TRAINING A NEW MISSIONARY! It's of course a little tiring and difficult, but it's an amazing learning experience and I know it will help me grow as a missionary too!  We left for the offices for the meeting with the new missionaries on Tuesday in the morning. We had to be there early because Elder Carbajal was finishing his mission, and he had to bring all his stuff there and weigh bags and get ready to go to the temple. I then waited for about 5 hours, and studied and talked, and then we finally went into the room and met up with the new missionaries for lunch. We ate and all talked, and it reminded me of my first day so much! We ate pulled pork sandwiches. Yes, pork, something we can't have in the mission. So it was a great day! Then the time came, and President gave the assignments of who will be training who. I got... Elder Morales! He's from Val Paraiso in Chile. 18 years old. He's awesome! He was the ...