This week has been super awesome! I got to work with my new companion Elder Carter who is from Houston, Texas. We just had the best first week, we had some really cool spiritual experiences, miracles actually. Its funny trying to write all that happens because not any one thing seems sufficiently significant to write. We left for Salvador Monday night and we got there Tuesday morning, and we we waiting to be told were to go from the bus station to get our companions and then the Secretary told me my Uber was here and my response was "my what is here?!" So the mission started using Uber for the transfers that are in the cities (not long distance for obvious reasons) So we got the Uber and went to the church building were we got a training on how to train a new missionary and then we went to lunch and then the new missionaries arrived. We then had a short training together doing contacts paired randomly with the new missionaries and then a classroom training after and then he had the exciting reveal from president on who we would train. So it was pretty fun that day. And from that day on we've been practicing his Portuguese (which he already speaks semi-well) and we've been having some actual success as well from all the extra practices and work we've been doing. he's pretty obedient so we get along fine. Yesterday we had a goal to make one more new investigator with the last 1/2 hr that we had and so we said a prayer and we were guided to a person that was made a new investigtor, he (and I) thought that was so cool that our prayers were answered literally.
I've been teaching, and bettering myself to extact obedience because its really only by this that we achieve our full potential in things physical and spiritual.
As far as things that are going for me, there is not a lot. I sometimes have to talk a lot more because my companion is still learning so I have to really be up to the challenge/responsibility to be basically functioning as a one missionary companionship because of the language sometimes, but I'm studying the language with my companion to help him to take on the most about of responsibility he can bear. Its part of the learning process right? But I'm very happy with Elder Carter he is very funny and is already joking around in his limited vocabulary and its hilarious. 😆 Well I guess I'll write more next week...
Love you guys!
[to my fan club]
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Elder Benjamin Barton
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