Zone Conference and Transfers

This week overall has not consisted of too much actual missionary work. That is the result of zone conference, moving apartments and finally watching last week's conference on Saturday and Sunday. Despite not being a super objectively productive week, it was a good final week with my companion Elder Morely. We just learned about transfers today and that he is transferring to Cagayan and I am getting a new companion. His name is Elder Fuller and he is actually in the same batch as Elder Morely and I am also becoming the district leader which is different. We'll see how this goes.

Tuesday -

We  had our zone conference on Tuesday. It was pretty cool to see Elder Butler, Elder Viador, Elder Magadia, Elder Burton, Elder Prusse, and other people as usual. There was a lot of goo things taught at zone conference, but the thing I remember most was that one of the senior Sister Missionaries taught about oral hygiene and it was just weird and funny to me. 

Wednesday -

We had a fairly normal opportunity to teach and proselyte. we ended up teaching around three lessons and having pretty good day.

Thursday -

In the morning we started trying to organize our move to our new apartment. We talked to the land lord, the office elders, and figured things out in order to enable us to move to our new apartment before this cycle ends. We then ended up teaching a lesson to our progressing investigators.

Friday -

In the morning we finished the actual paperwork and contracts to move to our new apartment. Our new one is attached to the same building as the other San Lorenzo Elders and is just on the second floor. We got help from a member who had a truck as well. We moved all our desks, tables, beds, and fridge from the fourth story of our old apartment building, loaded it in the truck, transported it to our new apartment, and then brought it back up another flight of stairs into the new building. It took forever but we got it done. The new apartment is pretty awesome compared to other ones I've seen. We still have to take bucket showers and don't have toilet paper, but it's pretty clean, has a little more spacious bathroom, and is fairly organized for now. I'm really excited for it actually.

Later in the day we were able to teach a single lesson to a part member family and it rained for the first time that I've been here in San Lorenzo.

Saturday & Sunday -

These two days mostly consisted of watching conference at the church. Not many members were really there on Saturday or Sunday, but it was kind of enjoyable to have basically a private conference session with A/C. There were, of course, a lot of good inspired talks and speakers.  I really enjoyed it, and it went by really quickly. If you really listen to any talk, there's something to be learned through the spirit, regardless of your previous knowledge. Some of the speakers I really enjoyed listening too were Dallin H. Oaks (both of his talks), Brook P. Hales, Dale G. Renlund, Tad R. Callister, and Kyle S. Mckay.

Later on Sunday night, we returned to the apartment a little earlier than usual so that Elder Morely could do laundry and start his packing process for Wednesday since he's transferring.

Monday -

Also, something cool that happened just today. So we went to the mission office to drop of the 6500 pesos that we had reimbursed by our previous land lords. While we were there, I met my previous companion Elder Areola coming from Ballesteros. He is headed home now but we talked a bit about the Ballesteros area. He said that this last cycle they baptized 15 people, most of which I actually taught. One family in particular that we taught was the Bauno family. The father had a beard and long hair and his wife is had one of her legs amputated because of diabetes. It turns out that both of them have been baptized since I left and in their testimonies they thanked Elder Areola and Elder Hunsaker for teaching them rather than Elder Areola and his new companion. It's cool to see that they continued to progress and their lives have changed for the better. 

Pictures -

zone conference, view from the roof of our old apartment, me, our fellowshipper Charles' face, me by a field, burning plate, pictures of our barber shop, pictures from moving.