Hello!
Another week here in Obligado...
On Tuesday we had interviews with President LaPierre. I love having
interviews with the mission president, I feel like I can just talk to him about
anything. President told me in our interview that the place Im at right now is
one of the hardest areas in the whole mission. He´s been considering just taking
out the missionaries for a while, but decided to put me and my companion in kind
of as a last hope effort. Apparently this area hasn´t been growing in a very
long time. The area consists of a couple cities, Obligado and Trinidad. There
used to be a branch in both cities, but a few years ago it seems like everyone
in Trinidad decided to stop going to church, and they took out the branch and
just combined it with the one in Obligado. Now when we go to Trinidad to talk
with the less actives, they use the excuse that the church is too far away, so
they can´t go. And everyone in Obligado has just gotten lazy. President LaPierre
said he knows this place is suffering, and he´s probably just going to take out
the missionaries for a while if it continues this way. I´ve definitely been
feeling it these past couple weeks here. It´s a very difficult area where me and
my companion just don´t feel wanted by anyone. We thought that maybe we should
just go to last resort and run around clapping doors all day, but we didn´t
enter into a single house. Sometimes I feel like darth vader, and everyone here
are a bunch of Lukes. ¨Search your feelings, you know it to be true!¨ ¨NO,
THAT´S IMPOSSIBLE!!¨ ... But I´m not about to give up. I realize that I wouldn´t
be put here if it werent for something, even if it takes a long time to figure
out what that purpose is. All I have to worry about is doing my best. What the
people decide to do is out of my hands.
I´m not going to lie, it´s been a relatively unsuccessful week. We had
about the same church assistance as the first week. I´m just thankful for the 3
faithful families that continue to go, even though times are hard here. If it
weren´t for them, the church wouldn´t even exist in this area.
We did have one small success, though. We went on Saturday to go look for a
familiy that before visited with the missionaries. We asked the neighbors if
they know which house it was. They told us that they moved a few months ago, but
they invited us in to listen. It wasn´t anything too special, but they did say
we could come back. I´m just glad we´ve found someone to teach.
This morning I was reading in 2 Nephi 4. Verses 15 - 35 are just amazing. I
love the way Nephi declares his love for the lord and that he will always follow
in his footsteps. It was a powerful passage that just hit me right to the very
center. Something I noticed too, I´m pretty sure those verses inspired the words
to the song Ï love the lord¨. It´s pretty similar.
Well, I´m glad I was able to email you today. It was kind of a pain finding
a computer. There arent any public ones and the one in the church broke, so we
had to go to a members house. I heard my family lent our computer to the
missionaires over there, I know how thankful they must have been!
I´m hoping for a better week this week, but I´m thankful for the tiny
successes we´ve had so far. Talk to you all later!
Elder Taylor
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