Tate is currently serving in Puno. He was transferred there 5 weeks ago and is now a Zone Leader. He has had to spend a lot of time traveling during this transfer - hence the subject of this week's email! He said on his recording that he has logged about 50 hours in travel over the past 4-5 weeks.
He just passed his ONE YEAR MARK! Yippee!! He is doing great!
-Tara
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What did George Washington say to his men before they got on their horses?
"Men, get on your horses."
I figured since I hit a year I would start doing lame jokes instead of movie quotes.
I
sent a recording with pretty much everything on it from the week. We
had to travel to Cusco again. Elder Cando was supposed to go to Machu
Picchu tomorrow but the company they work with has completely changed
everything so they had to do it all different. Now he's going to go on
Saturday. Woot! That means he'll leave on Friday and never come back
because he'll go home right after that. Crazy stuff. I'm going to stay
with the other two elders in my house to do the last week of the
change and then figure the rest out from there. There's a guy in my ward
named Harold who's getting ready to turn in his mission papers and he
wants to be my companion for a few days, so I think I'll jhave Harold come get me and
work with me for as long as he can during the day and then just stay
with some other companionship until dinner time. We'll see how it goes.
Harold is a super stud so I'm kind of excited to work with him and teach
him a little bit about missionary work. He's like 22 years old, and he
just recently hit his one year mark of being a convert to the church.
I
love you all. Hope this week is the best week of your lives. Keep
strong, study the scriptures. We never know the affect we can have on
other peoples' lives if we just put in a little effort and study. We
shouldn't read the BOM to just read, we should read it to learn and be
spiritually edified every single time.
Our stake president, Pres. Soto
talked a lot yesterday (talking to the stake leaders) about
teaching DOCTRINE, not just our own opinions or experiences. We need to
teach people the DOCTRINE of the gospel, which means we teach them
eternal truths. If we study the scriptures, we will learn the eternal
truths that will impact the hearts of other people. I've also been
trying to get better at asking "inspired questions." Questions that come
from heaven rather than from me. I truly feel that asking inspired
questions is the only way to get to some people's hearts and allow them
to have and feel a true conversion. Peace and blessings.
Loves,
Elder Tate
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