Sogamoso is Great

March 29, 2010
Hola Family,
It’s been another good week in Sogamoso. My comp and I have been working hard and getting along very well. We have been finding new investigators but once again they left us disappointed and only 1 came to church. It’s frustrating when you find people and set good commitments and even go to pick them up and they don’t come through. But we aren’t letting it get us down and we have many plans and ideas to turn things around.

We made a nice sheet and started a "plan" for the missionary work in the ward. I made a table on the computer with the days of this week and the hours of each day. We had them pass it around in the Relief Society and fill in an hour when we can visit every family and share our new "plan" with them and the paper got filled up. Really our secret plan is to visit them, share a message and plan to have a family home evening with a friend that they will choose to invite. So we should be busy this week visiting all the members and hopefully we can get some good references and people who are ready to accept the gospel.

I am starting to get the area down well and I think this should be a good week. It is now Semana Santa here "holy week". It’s a catholic thing where they have all kinds of traditions like not eating meat or listening to music etc. But it means most people will be on vacation and at home so hopefully that is good.

Other than that, the work is going well. My comp is making lots of progress and we are working hard and being very obedient. He really is a good guy.

This Sunday in church I gave a talk and spoke about how members can prepare themselves to share short messages about what we believe and what the church is. Lots of people said they really liked my talk and that I spoke Spanish really well which was nice.

Today we had a good pday. We played basketball and soccer at the church and a few kids and members that actually knew how to play bball a little bit came, so it was fun to get in some good games and work on my shot. After that we cooked lunch as a district in our house. Elder Soria (Brazil) made a steak thing called milanesa. It was way good and we had tons of food.
Well sorry so short but we got here late and it’s time to end p day and start working. I love you fam, have a great week, and thanks for everything. Love Elder Barnard