Hope you all had an amazing week! umm not a lot has been going on this week other then just a lot of work and a lot of meetings and discussions! nothing really out of the ordinary! we have just been focusing a lot on narrowing down our investigators and really focusing on the needs of the investigators who are serious in progressing and eventually being baptized so we "dropped" about 5 investigators this week who we thought didn't have the greatest intentions with hearing our discussions and weren't progressing. But we really focused on the needs of any of our investigators who have baptism dates and how we can help them the best we can! we noticed that we just need to be putting a lot of focus and energy into a good 5-10 who are serious about progressing rather then 20 when half of our meetings aren't really doing anyone any good so we are really focusing on the 4 investigators who have baptism dates along with 5 that are progressing well in the discussions! its just been a lot of re-focusing our efforts and in trying to be as effective as we can be and praying we can pull a baptism out of this area!
Just to give you a little taste of how the ward is and how differently structured it is out here, i'll give you an example! We go to church last Sunday, we talk a bit with our ward mission leader, he says that he will come with us to a discussion we have on Friday with someone who is really progressing! Really important meeting and we were hoping to ask her to prepare for baptism if the meeting went well! But we get a call on Friday morning telling us that our ward mission leader moved on Thursday to another ward and he never got back to us about going with us to the discussion! with no warning our ward mission leader just moves! He was a pretty difficult guy to work with in the first place, almost begging him to come to a discussion during the week! but yea so now we don't have a ward mission leader and were talking with Bishop right now to try to get another ward mission leader ASAP and we are trying to convince him into calling an awesome member who works with us a lot already and honestly fulfilled more duties of a ward mission leader then our actual ward mission leader fulfilled! But yea were praying hard for a bomb new mission leader which were praying is that same member who helps us out already!
It's been raining/cloudy all week pretty much! pretty great stuff, love it! also, another pretty crazy story that is a bit less spiritual then last week! we were visiting one of our progressing investigators and when we first met her she invited us in but as long as we didn't talk about religion (we ended up talking about religion) but this was about a month ago and this week we invited her to pray to know if the things we have taught her are true! and also to pray to know if the Book of Mormon is true and she said shes not going to promise because if she promises she knows she will have to do it but we met with her on Wednesday and she said she will promise to pray in the next week but not by Wednesday so hopefully all goes well with her! Shes a pretty awesome older lady! We call her our Grandma, she always feeds us and always is super interested in all we have to say and she has come a long way in the past month! also during our last meeting she brought out skulls and bones out of a box and told us that they were the bones of her parents!! hahaha crazy stuff!! also her neighbor comes by during almost all of our lessons and shes been more and more interested as well!! hahaha but yea and this last Wednesday we made her and her neighbor french toast which was pretty awesome and then we shared with them a few messages from general conference!! but shes a pretty awesome lady along with her neighbor!!
Thank you all so much for all of the love and support and hopefully i didn't bore you all to much with my e-mail this week! ill try to get some more interesting things going on here to write about in next weeks E-mail! hope you all have an awesome week!!
mucho amor,
Elder Tutton
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Candido Pujato 3269
3000 Santa Fe
Santa Fe, Argentina
