7-8-13
Hey guys how are you all doing this week? I
hope the 4th of July went good, I had a great 4th of July, and I got to meet
our president of the mission. His name is Presidente Maximo Torres. He’s from
California, and he’s a doctor and was working in New Mexico. I believe he’s
just a family practice doctor. But yeah he’s awesome; he’s really nice and
loving. He called everyone on the sick list to see how each one of them was
doing. He called a couple elders here in Santa Rosa to see how they were doing.
Yeah so he’s nice and willing to help us. He has an idea that I like a lot. He
wants every one of the converts to go to the temple within a month after
baptism. He wants this to happen so the retencion will be better. I love the
idea, do you remember Carmen? The convert from Cuenca? Well yeah she went to
the temple right away and she is really strong in the church. I talked to an
elder that served in my ward in Cuenca, he said that Transito and Carmen are
helping out with the work, they are giving a lot of references, feeding the missionaries,
and yeah they are doing well. I did an interview on Wednesday; the person participated
in an abortion so I had to call president to do the interview. President does
the interviews by talking over the phone.
I gotta say, this interview was so much easier then with president Montalti ha-ha,
the interview with President Torres was easy, and it’s actually a funny story ha-ha.
I was using a cell phone that is a piece of crap, so I called president,
explained the situation, the abortion, then he told me the pass the cell phone
to the lady. so I passed the cell phone, I left the room, then like 3 seconds later,
the lady leaves the room and tells me the cell phone turned off. So I panicked.
So I called president again, he told me don’t worry, so I passed the cell phone
again. I left the room, and the lady followed me and said that it turned off ha-ha.
So I tried the same routine again, but yeah it happened again. So I was
freaking out because I didn’t know how president was going to react. Because he
only does interviews on Wednesday night, and I was the first appointment, so I
was going to mess everyone’s interview up. So I found another cell phone,
called president, and got the job done. President told me after Good job elder
Gates, see you tomorrow. Ha-ha nothing more. I already know that President Torres
is a man called by god to guide us. He’s really nice, and this new idea of the
temple is going to help us a lot. There are going to be more converts active in the iglesia.
Okay
so we had 2 baptisms last week. Carmen Mena and Angie Cherrez. Carmen is
a mother of 4 members of the church. Carmen finally felt like time was right
and was baptized. The computer isn’t working so I can’t send pictures, but I
will send pictures next week. Okay thanks for everything. I hope you have received
all the pictures I have sent. If you haven’t, let me know so I can resend them.
Love you guys a lot, I’ll write Levi and Riley to see how they are doing. Bye"!!!!
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