Week 11

Hola everyone!

This past week has probably been my most favoritest week in the mission so far. We saw a bunch of miracles, had some surprises, and had EASTER WOOO!

One of the biggest surprises that we had this week was that Elder Clark and I got ANOTHER COMPANION whaaaat?! Yeah! So on Thursday, we got a call from the mission president's assistants saying we were getting a third companion. A couple hours later, Elder Olachea showed up at our apartment and has made these past few days WILD!

Elder Olachea is from... get this... Lima, Perú. He's from where I was supposed to get called to, which is super cool, cause I'm learning a bunch from him about Perú, and I'm also speaking a lot more Spanish cause it's his native language, and speaks it around the apartment. So every time I talk to him, I try to speak Spanish, so I'm learning a bunch, and it's starting to flow a lot better. I'm basically a native now #latino

When he joined us, he also brought his area with him, so now all three of us are in charge of both areas. This means we have more people to teach, more lessons to teach them, and more missionary work to do!! It's a mission goal to teach at least 20 lessons a week per companionship. Normally we get about 20-25 on average each week, but this past week, we taught 41 lessons!! Gosh diddly darn this week has been a hoot and a half.

We've also seen a bunch of miracles this week as well. So now that we're indoors all day, it has been super difficult to find and teach new people that might be interested in hearing a message from us cause we can't go outside to teach. So we've been solely relying on the help and missionary work of the fantabulous members in our areas to refer us to friends and people that might be interested. Out of the blue, we received four referrals earlier in the week, which is crazy since we'd be lucky to even get just one!

Easter was also super awesome. At the end of the day, we realized that we really didn't do anything to celebrate it, pero está bien because all of our studies and lessons were centered on the life, Atonement, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. So in that sense, we celebrated Easter exactly how it should be celebrated.

This week was awesome. It's so much fun to have another person in the apartment to talk to, and my sanity is starting to return a bit. I love you all. ¡Feliz Día de Pascua!

Elder Terry

Fotos:
1. The squad at a park to take a breather. Well it was hard to take a breather cause we have to wear masks now every time we go outside.

2 & 3. Elder Clark, Elder Olachea, and me during a lesson with arguably the coolest family in the ward, la familia Roper. (Sorry for pic quality and rotation, that's how it got sent to us )