Monday, April 8, 2013

Consejo!

Hello friends and Family!

Well sorry I´m getting your letter to you so late. I forgot to tell you that Every Monday opening a month we have a consejo. The MP, AP´s and all the ZL´s get together and report the numbers they have gotten for the month. We stand up and say how many baptisms we got for the month and what our goal was. We then put a new goal and talk about how we are going to reach it. We had to go to the consejo today and of course we drove up with Pres and his wife. They are really funny. 

We got to the consejo and found out about a lot of stuff. We got 138 BAPTISMS THIS LAST MONTH. That is the best Pres. Humphrey has seen since he has been here. We found out that now we are able to write New converts, friends/family, and Ward members and Priesthood leaders. We also found out that we are getting 13 more sister missionaries...

After our consejo we had a catered lunch from a Peruvian place. They gave us what seemed to me like Tai food. It was really good. It was almost like a curry. To celebrate our number of Baptisms we ended up going to a turf soccer field. There were three fields and we split up into teams and played 5 against 5. I have learned I wasted my time trying to play Football. I should have played soccer. We were playing against Latins that have played their whole life and I was schooling a lot of them. I ended up having like 6 goals. It was a blast! We now have P-day all day because of the Consejo. That's why I´m writing so late.

This week we had the mini mission. I had a mini missionary from Parral. He ended up being older than me. We ended up getting twice the work done and we got 6 to church. It was so sick being able to work with a mini missionary. I got to run the show and we had a lot of success. We are trying to find another joven to come out and work with us so we can keep doing divisions. It was really nice getting twice the work done. 

So earlier this week we left the house from getting over with P-day and we went to go visit someone. They ended up not being there so we did contacts to try and find. We knock on the first door and they guy lets us in right away. It was a dorm room of 4 guys and the one dude was cooking. They let us in and tell us to sit down. We sat down and one dude comes in and starts talking to us. He goes to close the door and hesitates, then closes it. The back of the door was covered in cut out porn from different magazines. It was really awkward and it was right in front of us. One of the guys says he has to leave and leaves us with the guy cooking in the kitchen. We ask him if we can share something with him and he says to hold on. He takes like 10 minutes and my comp finally asks him if we can come back. He then says ¨¿no quieren panqueques?¨ We were super confused. He ended up making us basically crapes with manjar or a caramel syrup kind of thing. They were actually really good. We shared with him and walked out. We were so confused and had no idea what to do. 

We had asked an INV for a reference and she told us her neighbor that lived in the apt. right in front. She said the daughter had been super sick and had just been taken to the hospital. We had been praying all week for this family and for the little 6 year old girl. We passed by multiple times and could never find them. during the mini mish we passed by the INV and she said to come back in an hour. I decided to knock on the neighbors door. She opened up and said she was really busy. I managed to get my foot in the door before she could close it. I told her we had heard about her daughter and only wanted to say a prayer. She told us hang on... closed the door.. and came back to let us in. We walked in to see the cutest little 6 year old girl with a mask over her face. I have never felt so bad for someone. We prayed and shared with... THE WHOLE FAMILY! We found out the mom is a less active and the kids and the husband aren´t baptized. We were stunned with the blessing we had just received. It was really cool to be able to show the mini mish that miracles like that really happen. We have a lesson with them tomorrow. The family is the family Cantero. If you can pray for them it would be great. 

We had a mini cambio with the AP´s and we ended up not having much success. I did learn a lot though. It was a really slow day but I learned a lot.

Answers to questions....

Week... has been awesome. Some of the best lessons and numbers I have had in a long time. 

Inv´s... We are finding a lot that have been progressing. Still have the ones that won´t take the next step... Not wasting too much time with them. 

No, I have not been beat up by little unruly Chilean kids. Good thing huh.

Did not have time to pass by the office to see if my mail got here.

Got his first letter. not sure if that was your question.

Easter... I PREACHED THE GOSPEL!! Make sure to tell the kids, especially Ainsley there is no Spring break in the mission field.

Well I love you all and miss you tons!
Elder Torgersen

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