Emergency Transfers Part II

Well this past week had its ups and downs. 

Ma rugby ball :)

Last P-day we went to the stake center and Elder Gonzalez made some Mexican tacos that were super good and we balled up. 

Last Thursday I went on splits with our zone leader, Elder Giles, in our area. We tried a new way of contacting where we talked more about Jesus with the people instead of just inviting them to the church, and boy it sure worked. We found 5 new people, so we now have 8 people with dates. There were some lessons that he took out with people that he shouldn't have and I have no idea why he did, haha; probably because he goes home in a week and he wanted to help us find people. 

But anyways, we had the baptism for Emilio this week. So we are at the church building filling up the font and Elder Pierce and Elder Gonzalez were getting the clothes and buying the cake.......... and then I get the call. Emilio told us that he had talked to his dad and that his dad said it was best to have his baptism with all of his family present and that he needed to respect the word of his dad. The thing is his family is in Venezuela and his dad is in Ecuador. We were pretty let down and sad. 

Nefi

We are going to have the baptism of Olga this Saturday so that should be good. 

GINO

So on Saturday morning, Elder Pierce and I were getting ready for the day and then the assistants start calling us and Elder Madruga says, "Hey I've got some news for you guys. Put me on speaker."  I thought to myself, oh they have the marriage papers for the Venezuelans ready, and I told him that Elder Pierce was showering. He then says, "You're going to be a zone leader in Surco and and Elder Pierce is going to train a new missionary in Surco as well." I was totally shocked and I was like, "What?" The funny thing was that Elder Pierce would always joke around about going to Surco to train because Surco is one of the nicest areas in the mission and it's like the states kind of. 

Surco

So I said, "Elder Pierce you're going to Surco." And he's like, "Bro no way, stop teasing me." and I say, "No really, you're gonna train too!" And he wouldn't believe me. It was pretty funny.  So after writing today, Elder Pierce and I are leaving so that's crazy. I am going to be with Elder Topham from Oklahoma. I know him a little bit and he has red hair, so two, red headed zone leaders, haha. Hope you all have a great week!

Omar would go contacting with us all the time.