(Responses to family emails)
My new comp is way good, and classic Peruvian that likes to talk. Oftentimes I can't fall asleep til like 11 or 11:30pm because he practically shouting in his excitement over talking about whatever it was that happened that day. Lol. He's from my group and just came from being one of the highest baptizing zone leaders in Tarija. He's now secretary of materials, in one of the hardest areas of the whole mission, with an elder that doesn't baptize much (me) basically like junior comp... and I've never been a DL before. So he's not all too happy, but he's doing a good job, adapting, and working hard. He has a little more time than I do in the mish (20 months recently completed), turns 20 yrs old on March 1st. We've started talking with tons more people and he's helping me with new ideas as well and kind of training me how to be a DL. He's from Lima, Peru a place a Callado Province. His English isn't all too great. I barely speak any English with the latinos, they don't strive enough to study and learn the language usually. MY SON IS IN MY DISTRICT! Elder Flores is with an Elder I respect a lot that works way hard that was with us in Tarija and they're both in my district now and baptizing a ton! Way cool! I've had Elder Smith for a transfer, Elger Garcia, and Elder Gilbert up until now that have all been gringos. Yup this weekend is carnaval, the devil's holiday they often call it... some bad stuff goes down. We'll be inside Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.... Hope I can get caught up on my journal that's like 2 weeks behind. There are a lot more crazy ppl here in my area. We saw some guy sniffing glue last night and another dude without pants walking around and breaking branches off the small trees around the sidewalks in the streets. Lot of drunk ppl sleeping in uncomfortable positions in the street. I've been helping him a bunch on what he's gotta do in the offices in exchange for what he teaches me as a district leader. We teach pretty well together. He's better with the scriptures. They ALWAYS talk about home teaching here. Being here in the offices is a good training for the life after the mission because there's a lot of non spiritual things we have to do and then we have to jump right in to the spiritual and work hard there too. We don't have many investigators right now, but there's a couple pretty good ones.
I am secretary to the president still and a district leader for the first time ever. Pretty cool.... but even more work now. I have to do exchanges with the 4 other elders I have weekly and the with the 2 zone leaders and make calls to teach and help them during the week. Lead and organize a weekly hour and a half district meeting, be an example in my area and everything I do, receive and report all of their key indicators to the zone leaders with mine on Sunday night, and be really creative to pick everyone up and be more positive, obedient, and hard working, think of and organize district activities and refreshments, etc. Maybe you and dad should read over part of the missionary handbook online again where a lot of my responsibilities are laid out. Next transfers are March 24 right before dad's birthday.
Love you all! :)
Elder Van Horne
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