Welp, sorry for not writing any emails for a little bit . . .
This week was a pretty fast week, on Tuesday we had to get up and get going early since we had our consejo de lideres meeting and we had it out in the peninsula. We had to be at the office by 7am to eat breakfast and we left by 8am. Honestly it wasn't the best leadership council that we have had but I hope what we decided on can help the mission out. After that we got back around 6pm and went to work for a bit.
The sector is still pretty slow going, Elder Loomis and I are finding like dawgs and still no one really wants to come to church after a couple of weeks. We have finally been able to find some cool people though. A couple weeks ago we baptized this little 10 year old Ruben and his grandpa just said he would be interested in learning more with us. Kind of a free member reference but he seemed pretty interested and never really has participated in the lessons until now.
This week we had intercambios with a sector called Diamante (Diamond) . The sector is still here in the Isla Trinitaria but they have both sides of a freeway so it is pretty big. I went with Elder Villalta from Honduras and he's an Elder that's pretty young but already has a lot of the missionary work down. We got lost for about an hour and a half in the sector but we were able to find some people that seemed pretty cool and also able to get to all the lessons that they had planned on time.
While I was in Diamante, my comp Elder Loomis, found this really cool family that seemed really welcoming and open to learn more about Jesus Christ. We invited them to be baptized and they said that they were down but won't be able to come to church for a bit so hopefully they can progress towards baptism. I also don't think I wrote this story in an email but when we were in intercambios we had been knocking and talking to people for quite some time when at 8:30 at night we yelled into this house and exited this lady. She seemed interested and so we shared a little message and well she can't come to church since she has to work but we decided to give her a Book of Mormon. She was surprised when we gave her that Book of Mormon and ended up telling us that earlier in the week she had asked God through prayer to bring her a bible and we had answered her prayer by giving a Book of Mormon!
I have been really trying to focus on the very little miracles that have been going on in our sector. There is quite a bit of adversity and opposition right now but every single talk I listen to that talks about adversity talks how it is simply a time to work harder but also to learn and how to be better. I have been able to see that we have been able to change some things with how we are working and teaching and Elder Loomis and I can tell a big difference in the sector. Hopefully we can get some people to church.
This week was probably the most trunky week of my mission, I got my Myplan, my plane tickets, with college football going on but I'll try to stay focused.
Love y'all,
Elder Roper
"Two Principles for Any Economy" - Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
