Record Breaking Week

This past week was pretty exciting. On New Years, we watched the fireworks and they were a lot better than the Christmas fireworks. But besides that it was just a normal day, haha. We had transfers last Tuesday and Elder Topham and I are staying together which is good. 

Yesterday we had stake conference and President Amato called Elder Topham and I up to the front to say our missionary commission and he was joking about our red hair, haha. It was pretty funny. I love President Amato. 

Last Friday we had leadership counsel and that was great.  Elder Topham and I were matching and we gave a bomb presentation. Last month in December we baptized 20 children of God and it was amazing. The previous most in Surco was 13 and the normal has been 6 or 8 a month, but Elder Topham and I are changing things around here. We also baptized the most that our mission had ever baptized in a month and President Amato and the assistants were pretty happy. After the meeting, we ate Big Macs from McDonalds and I ate like 6 and man it was good. 

I also went on splits with Elder Madruga that day. Elder Madruga is an excellent missionary and he´s pretty cool. He's from Brazil but he can speak perfect English and he looks like he's American, haha. He played rugby before his mission and dang, he's good. He got an offer to go play on their national team but he turned it down to serve a mission, so I have a lot of respect for him. 

This week we have the baptism for Elizabeth and next Wednesday for Eneida so please pray for them. We are struggling a little bit finding right now but we know that the Lord will help bless us if we are patient and have positive attitudes. I hope everyone is doing great in the cold. It's pretty humid over here. 

Elder Shockley

This is the missionary commission that they say in Spanish: 

I am called of God.
My authority is above that of kings of the earth.
By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him–to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me.
My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts.
My doctrine is His doctrine.
My Commission is to do what He wants done, to say what He wants said, to be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous latter-day work.
How great is my calling!
-Elder Bruce R. McConkie