Well it´s been a pretty good week! It´s a way great pension that we´re in, and we´ve got some really good investigadores. On sunday night we were out talking to people in the street before heading back to the pension, and we bumped into Elder Chamorro and Elder Wyckof who told us that President Avila was about to call us, and with in like a minute he did, so i answered and he asked me how well i know the area and how Elder Blackman is doing with the pain [knee injury, I think], i replied that i know the area ´mas o menos´ and that he still has some pain, and then he talked with Elder blackman for about 15 minutes. There is an Elder getting here from Brasil this week and so that´s why he wanted to know quickly. but he said we would figure it out in the interviews on Monday morning. So on Wednesday we had interviews with president and wow i love interviews. He asked about the district, and elder Blackman and our investigadores. He always has such great advice. He asked me to say the closing prayers and as I did i started to cry, i don´t even know why, a lot for gratitud for having had President Avila as our President and being a part of this mission and this work. Elder Blackman had his interview and then confirmed that he would be leaving on Wednesday and so that I would be the new Brazilian elders first comp, so that will be exciting. We´ll go to the offices tomorrow to drop him off and pick up my new comp. It´s been just two weeks with Elder Blackman but i´ve really grown to love him. He´s a great missionary and a fun to be around.
We had 5 people at church on Sunday! One was the daughter of a lady in the ward and we set up a lesson with her for this week and then 4 that are family and a friend of Pablo, a recent convert in our ward. We´ve been teaching them and one does have a date for this week but we´ll be going by tonight to solidify that. So yeah it really has been a great week. I love feeling the spirit and the clarity it brings to everything. One thing that´s been coming to my mind lately is how we can apply different things to the gospel. On Sundaythe [Gospel] principles teacher wasn´t there, so I being the oldest missionary there taught it. It was about covenants. We talked about the many blessings and power that we recieve by making covenants and also about the great responsibilities that come with them. I quoted uncle Ben [from "Spiderman"] who said ´with great power comes great responsibility´ Then last night in bed before falling asleep, I was telling stories to the elderes and i was just telling the story of harry potter, and it came to my mind the importance of having good friends and also the importance of our desires in getting to our destiny. After the mission, i wanna read harry potter in spanish and with lots of movies and books i want to write about comparisons to the gospel.
So yes, it has been a good week, no, i don´t want elder blackman to leave. yes, i´m excited to have a comp from brazil, and yes i do hope he cooks.
I love the mission, I love the Lord, and i love you all!
Elder Fullmer
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