Well I'm not sure about what to say... it was a very interesting week.
Really fun and edifying, but also super stressful.
For starters, Elder Piper who is the area president of Mexico, came to the mission to give several trainings. So we had a special multi-zone conference with him, and another meeting, and it was so much fun. He really changed a lot about the mentality in our mission. Our mission is a mission that baptizes a lot, and is successful, but it needs a lot of fine tuning. His talks that he gave, combined with talks from our mission president, were incredible and really changed our view of how to work with members and how to find new investigators, and how to effectively teach. It was so incredible.
The day of his second meeting with us, in the afternoon, Elder Sanchez and I were in a park studying when everything began to shake. I thought he was moving the bench, so I looked up at him, but he was looking at me with the same confusion. We both immediately knew what was happening; it was another earthquake. So we got to a safe place, waited out the shaking which was fairly brief and minimal, and then we started calling all the elders and making sure that they were okay and then informing the assistants and our mission president. The good news is that there was very minimal damage, and everything turned out okay. But it was surprising because it was our third major earthquake in 5 months which is pretty crazy.
Other fun things, we hit our goal of new investigators this week, so to celebrate, we went and ate pizza today. And we also hit our goal of speaking in English in the house, so we went out for milk shakes as well.
We're working really really hard. It's really interesting being old in the mission. I've now been out for more than 17 months, and it hurts, I'm physically fatigued, but at the same time, I'm more spiritually mature, a way more intelligent missionary, and it's just been really interesting.
Anyways that's all for this week. I love you guys a lot.
Elder William Jacob Long
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