Mom and Dad,
Thank you so much for the email. I do
have a lot of stuff to do, but you will be proud of me because I was a good
servant and I am almost packed and I have all my clothes nicely washed and
everything. The only thing is that I have a lot of shoes. I have bought 2 pairs
of shoes during my time here in San Juan. I have some super cool ones that are
wine colored wing tips that are my favorite because they are super old school.
I have a cool hipster missionary look going on. Everything being within mission
standards. I also had some new temple pants made because mine don’t fit me
anymore. Those are super cool as well.
So this week was pretty crazy. I’m glad
you guys all had a great week and sorry that mom and Mary are sick. Dad have
you given them a blessing? The priesthood is super powerful. A couple weeks ago
the other elders in my district had an investigator who couldn’t go to church
because she had a foot infection and couldn’t walk. So the gave her a blessing
on Saturday and she was able to walk to the bus stop the next day and came to
church! So yeah blessings!!!!
I really miss The Village. That’s cool
that you got some cheap Gap stuff. Here in the market I buy ties for a quarter
each. I also can get a pair of pants made for me for 10 dollars. And that’s a
fitted pair of pants where they take your measurements and everything and you
can get them with cool stuff on the insides and cool pockets. This week I had some
pure white pants for the temple and baptisms made because mine are now way to
big.
Also dad, I’m not sure if my great grandpa
looks like me, but I think I’m going to make a sweet genealogy agenda with that
picture! Is there any chance that you could get a picture of you at that age as
a missionary in black in white?
I’m not going to lie, I’m very jealous
about your vacation to California that will be super cool. You and the Schriever’s
will have a great time. And Eli will be a dad soon with his new baby girl. That
will be super cool! I think it would be super cool to go to Alcatraz. That will
be a wild adventure.
Also, as you know transfers are this
week and I am going back to the capital to an area called Herrera. It’s smack
dead in the middle of the capital. Sort of like and urban jungle. Its a two man
area and my new comp will be Elder L. I’m not going to be the district leader
and there aren’t any sisters in my district either so lots less stress.
This week we had a great week in the
district meeting. I put the goal as a district to talk to 1000 new people this
week and we were able to get it! It was super cool and a very good lesson
because I hate contacting, but I put the goal so I thought to myself if I wasn’t
willing to put in my part to hit the goal then how could I ask others to do the
same. A very cool moment and we hit the goal with 1047 contacts during the week
as a district! And my companionship had 251, so almost exactly a fourth of the
goal!! It was a great moment!!!
That’s about it for this week. I’ll give
you guys the update next week. See you all soon. Lots of love and prayers, but
just so you know I love you lots!
Elder Bailey Stark
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