Week 54

What's up?  I hope this week has gone well for all of you. As for me, it has been a busy week as always. To start the week out we met with the district leaders in our zone to share with them what are called "the greater plates" in English. They are just the notes that are taken during leadership council on the the trainings and whatnot. So we shared all of that with them and worked out what we were going to do for our district meeting, because we used to have zone meetings but they changed that a little while ago. Now its a district meeting but as Zone Leaders we share in part of the training as well as the Sister Leaders. 

On Wednesday we held the district meeting and it was kinda stressful having to worry about everything and if it would turn out okay and that everyone would be happy, kinda sucks. We also have to provide food for a break and make sure everyone else does what they are supposed to do, but it turned out well. We talked about the prophetic priority and how it applies to the mission as well and how what president does is our priority and we can't stray from that. Also, instead of having a doctrinal focus every month we are changing it to a Christlike characteristic each month and we have to set 3 personal/measurable goals for that and follow-up with all the elders and sisters. I think it is pretty cool and should help us develop ourselves even more. 

On Thursday our investigator had her interview with president. We got to interview her in his house and that was pretty cool. It has a different feeling than the house of President Boswell. It is more relaxed with all of his kids there and whatnot. Its not a bad different just different. She passed the interview and was able to be baptized on Saturday! It was super cool, she is a great convert! she was so happy to be confirmed a member and make her whole family complete. I'll send pics later, her son baptized and confirmed her. 

Saturday we filled up and cleaned the baptismal font, it took the whole morning because we were trying to open the door to the "bomb" is what they call it idk but its the thing that drains the water. Haha we were kicking the door and it wouldn't open so we finally called the bishop and he came down to help us because we thought maybe our key was bad. Turns out we were turning the key the wrong way and we were locking the door with the huge bolt...so that was embarrassing. But ya, the baptism and everything took up pretty much the whole day. 

Sunday was a crazy day. The district leader in Huertos was dying (completing his time as a missionary) and had dinner with president yesterday at 6:00.  Some of the sisters had baptismal interviews with their investigators at 5:00, so we had to be there for that. It was an older couple who are going to be baptized this Saturday. We had no idea how crazy it was gonna be when we went to it. We flipped a coin to decide who would interview who and I got to interview the husband. So to make the story short lets just say that it was my first Question 4 and that they have a lot of problems.  During my companion's interview, he said he felt like a bishop in his interview because the wife just cried and cried the whole time. Hahaha this thought came to me while in the interview "I'm single, 19 almost 20 years old and I am here to verify if this successful 55 year old man has a testimony and an understanding of right and wrong..and being asked to give some marriage counseling to improve his 30 year marriage...how does that work?!?" Crazy right?  I think things will turn out fine for them once they get baptized. 

Anyway, that is my week. Today we went to a car museum nearby and it was super cool! They restore tons of cars and whatnot and were explaining to us all of the stuff. I will send pics. My fave car was this Shelby GT 350 that they had there.  This little mini car reminded me of "Top Gear" when Jeremy drives it around and flips it over like 50 times. It was super cool, they said that they were restoring some car that would probably sell for 350 million dollars so that was cool.

Love you guys thanks for everything. 

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Much Love,

Elder Mortenson