Perfect Week

Hola!

This week was great. We called it the "Perfect Week" because this was the first time in a long time that our numbers actually met or exceeded all of our goals for the week. Sister Stone is a boss and she made sure that we met our goals with total lessons, team ups, new investigators, stuff like that. We found some awesome new investigators this week. One of my favorite ways to find new people (besides contacting on Bergenline) is knocking on random doors and when people open we say "Hola, estamos buscando Maria?" (Hi, we're looking for Maria?) And since there are sooooo many women named Maria here that's really a believable thing to say and people don't get weirded out. And if they say that there's no Maria there then we just say "Oh, sorry, well, we're missionaries..." and start talking to them. It might sound kinda dumb but we got an awesome new investigator this week named Diego out of doing it!

Our Mission President has promised each companionship that if they go through the area book and try to contact every single former investigator, at least one of them will get baptized. So that's what we've started doing. There are TONS of former investigators in our area book and it will take a long time to get through them all. So we are just focusing on one street a week (our area only has 11 blocks). We will eventually get through every single one in our area and we area excited to see the miracles that come from it!

Another thing that made this week perfect was that I got 3 letters and I got a package from my awesome family with Jesus the Christ and some old Ensign magazines, as well as some yummy fall treats. Made me super happy!

 

Also, after being super sad about leaving Union City, Hermana Galvan is back less than two weeks later! Long story short, one of the other sisters serving in Union City got emergency transferred, so her companion obviously needed a companion, so Hermana Galvan was sent back to Union City! She's in the same ward and everything, she just has a new companion and a new area now. But I am super excited because I'll get to see her all the time! And it was super special because even though the one week she was gone was the week Cristian was baptized, she got to see him get confirmed yesterday! Because (in our ward at least) convert confirmations are done in Sacrament Meeting the week after their baptism. So that was super cool for her!

Training is going good. Sister Stone is fearless! She's so great at contacting. When I first got here I was terrified of walking up to random strangers on Bergenline and talking to them. It took me a while, but I've learned to love it. Sister Stone already loves it! A bunch of the missionaries here who I haven't even officially met know who I am because they know me as the sister who's training right after being trained. Ha. So that's fun. People keep asking me how I feel about it, and I don't know what to say because I honestly don't feel like it's any different! Sister Stone is so awesome that it doesn't even feel like I'm training her. I'm still pretty new and I still have so much to learn!

<3 Hermana Harris