Shout Outs

Parker wrote, "Hey guys, I found the OTC (Olympic Training Center) of Paraguay!"

Hey family and friends,

Big shout outs to a lot of people

1) Olivia for finishing her first year of college

2) Josh for the Vegas tourney 

3) Gabe for being the Elks club award winner

5) Jamo for his MVP ball game award

7) Dad for getting Henry down to Temecula in one piece. maybe I have a chance of actually having a car when I get back. 

8) MOM FOR GETTING THE APARTMENT HOOK UPS! BYU is looking bigger and badder than ever. It'll be fun.

9) Elder C for hitting his year mark! Shout out to YOBAI. 

This week was sweet and funny and hard and I'm still tired. We have been having zone conferences EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. We usually do conf like zones 1-4 and 5-7 etc.. BUT THIS CHANGE WE ARE DOING THEM ONE BY ONE. So there we are, trying to teach repentance and baptize converts in our poor area that is getting like hardly any attention, while staying up till all hours of the night creating power points and correcting zone leaders presentations so that everything goes well in the conference. This week was literally like Groundhogs Day where his life is just on repeat. It was so awesome haha. I've also found the ganas to go out running with Elder T from Texas.  He's like our CFO of the mission. Capo. But, we went running a few times because we have had to live in the office this last week so we can just get up and go. There were some funny parts as zone leaders, who were in charge of a big part of the conference weren't as ready as they should have been.  And even better, during our number reports session when President threw up the numbers of every companionship in the zone on the projector for everyone to see and there was a group "analyzing" section. 

Resting in between conferences

We are excited though for tonight as V (the husband of S, she got baptized 3 weeks ago) is getting baptized today and also D who is the son of some less active members. So, tonight we will get to see two more baptisms.  But, it was a disappointing week as C and R dropped us this week for reasons unknown to us. It was a weird text message that said, "We are out of the group, please don't bug us anymore." Which is weird as they have come to church 4 times and we have met with them a lot to just drop us like that. I smell some outside influences coming on. But we´ll get to the bottom of it, we haven't given up on them yet. 

Thanks for everything y'all are doing. I'm grateful for everything and hope you all have a great week. Sounds like everyone is finishing up their studies and things, but this week helped me always have in mind the importance of remembering. Always remember what is most important.  

Elder Yocum