Now I am in Tomé and I am loving it here. It is so beautiful. But HUGE. And there are so many hills to climb. This sector is famous for having the biggest and steepest hills in the whole mission.
Seriously Google map this... there's a community in Tome called Cerro Santo. And a road that goes straight up for at least a mile. When you drive up it feels like you are taking off in an airplane and when you walk up it you just want to fall over and die. My thighs are burning just at the thought of it. But I have a goal to run to the top before I leave Tomé.
My new companion is Elder Ainge, a basketball player at BYU, His dad is the manager of the Celtics team in Boston. Sweet right.
We are working really hard in our sector and trying to unite ourselves with the members as much as possible. In our Zone and in the mission in general we are changing the focus completely. All the work we do now needs to be with the members. The stereotype missionary that knocks on doors and works alone is dying out. We need to be with the members working and strengthening from the inside out. If we just baptize and leave we are just making room for more less actives. Just like President Hinckley said every convert needs a friend in church, an assignment, and to be nourished by the Good word of God. Only with the members we can do that.
This week with the bishop and the ward leader we created a new mission plan. It’s a good one. I am excited to get started
The stake has challenged our ward to double the attendance in church by the end of this New Year. We have on average 100 people coming every week. So by the end of the year we have a goal of 200. The secret to this is working through the less actives.
There are so many less actives here in this place. 50% of the people we talked to on the street have been baptized into the church but don't go. It’s shocking.
To give you a better idea... In our ward alone, in the records of the church show that there are 1247 members...but only 100 come every week. We got a lot of work to do boys.
This week we woke up in the morning and ran on the beach. It’s like a 2 min jog there.
Seriously this sector has on old town California feel to it. I LOVE IT
Here are some pics from the week.
Oh and happy New Year. Almost forgot
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