So much progress!

So guess what, before the mission i was 100 percent anti ice skating, i hated it. Probably just because i sucked. But today i went ice skating with my zone, and i freaking loved it!!!! i wasnt even bad, i was even racing people!!!! Granted i didnt win any races, but i raced. I have some pretty sick pics from it, but ill have to send them next week. I even taught a couple of south american missionaries who have never skated before how to do it, it was a Christmas miracle! except its not quite Chrsitmas..... A ALMOST THANKSGIVING MIRACLE!!!!! So ill have to take the little girls out ice skating some day.

So this week was really awesome F and L both passed their baptismal interviews!!!!!!!!!! The third person that was going to get baptized i realized that he wasnt quite ready, so i had to talk to him and tell him that he wasnt going to be able to get baptized this week, he was pretty much just wanted to get baptized for his girlfriend but didnt have any testimony, and his family was pretty anti him getting baptized, so i had to tell him that we were going to keep helping him to get to another day. Which will be alot better for him,

Well i a can pretty much just think about ice skating right now hahaha it was supper funny, there was at one point where a missionary got a chunk of ice and threw it at me, and so to get him back i saw a big spot where there was just a bunch of shredded ice, from people sliding to a stop, so what i did is a did a super sick slide where i was going pretty fast and i threw myself into a slide and slid over like 10 feet! and then i scooped up a ton of ice, and then once i had a bunch of ice i got myself back up, and raced up behind the missionary, and then when i got close to him i slowed myself down ,and went into stealth mode, and i quietly snuck up behind him, and put the ice down the back of his shirt!!!! I was honestly afraid that he was going to freak out, and fall and kill both of us, but he didnt, but he did let out a pretty awesome yell! Hahahahaha

But anyways so this week i spent alot of time on transfers with other missionaries. But there was one when i went down to a sector called Estrecho (its right on Magellan Straight ( i think thats what its called, that passage that Magellan used in la Tierra del Fuego to cross from the Atlantic to the pacific ocean) But anyways i went down there because the missionaries where having alot of problems, so we made the newer missionary go to my sector with my comp, so that he could see what an ideal sector looks like ( i do not like saying that it makes me sounds super prideful, but thats what we were doing) and then i went down the Estrecho so that i could help out the other missionary there. 

And everything there went really great! The problems were really just caused because they had very very little support from the ward, and that kind of depressed them, which took away their desires to work ,and got lazy and then all their sector started to die. But i went down there because i kind of have alot of experience with fixing problems like that. So i spent the day there working and talking to the missionary helping him get pumped up to work, and giving him new ideas. And by the end the missionary was like a new person, he was working really hard, and super excited to get to work.

One little quote of what i told him was this. (we were just talking about how he thought that it was really hard being in this situation. and i told him ``Elder, i know that being in a ward like this is really hard, But there is one thing that you are forgetting about. The Lord sent you here because he trusts you. He knew that this ward is really weak, and needs alot of help, and He sent you here, because he trusts you. He knows that you would be able to handle it. The Lord sent you here, because he has a giant work waiting for you, there are SOO Many Souls here in this sector, that are waiting for you. Dont let them down. Do what the Lord expects you to do. Be the missionary that they need to bring them back to Gods Presence....`` It kept going but it was good for him.

The next day was super funny, i asked the missionary to call his bishop, because i wanted to meet with him. And so when the missionary called the bishop he put it on speaker phone and said ``Hey Bishop, right now i am sitting here with the Zone Leader, hes the leader of the missionaries in this Stake, And he told me about how he recently had a meeting with the Stake President about the progress of the work here in the Stake, and apparently there is something really important that he needs to talk to you about from that meeting, And wants to do it in person, not over the phone, when can we meet with you``  

That Poor Bishop sounded TERRIFIED!!! He Had reason to as well trying to set up an appointment like that.  sheesh i had something good that i wanted to talk to him about.

But anyways i meet up with the bishop, and he invited me into his office, and he just looks Terrified, like i was just going to call him to repentance for not doing his job right or something like that (just so you all know he is doing his job right, hes a freaking awesome bishop) And there was a moment of silence that was terrible, its like he was trembling... Shoot im all out of time, but ill tell you the rest of the story later, but just so you know before hand i just told him a bunch of good things and got him super pumped to work with the missionaries too. 

But i love you all!!!!!!!

 My studies generally go one of two ways. Both of which are real pictures and not planned, my comp just grabbed my camera without me looking both times and took a picture haha