Chillin in the Bronx

This past week has been pretty different. On Friday we had another
split with the district leaders (we have to split with them every
cycle at least 2 times) and this time Elder Richards went to work with
elder Cheney in his area and I stayed and took over our area with
Elder Perez. Taking over the area was a new experience for me and it
was also pretty hard. We had a great nightly plan for what we were
gonna do the next day, and in the morning we had really good studies
and planned out what we were gonna teach and everything seemed to go
the right way. We were pretty excited because elder perez' area is not
as good as ours and they pretty much never teach more then 2 lesson a
day, so we were pretty pumped to go out and teach like 6 lessons that
day, when we started calling to see if we can come over, the first
appointment cancelled, so we were like ok that's fine we still have 5
more, so we called the next and they also cancelled and you can guess
what happened to the next four appointments, they also cancelled. I
could not believe it because this was literally the only day where
every single appointment has canceled on us and I was in charge of the
area. I didn't really know what to do after that so we made some
backup plans. We decided to do lookups, first the less actives then
the potentials and after that if nobody opened the door we were gonna
tract or street contact. Well to keep the story short we pretty much
tracked the whole day. It was awful and to me it seemed like a whole
day went down the drain, but I did learn how to make backup plans if
everything falls through and I had a lot of practice how to knock
doors.

On Sunday we passed Delight Stackhouse our most golden investigator to
the sister training leaders, she was so awesome! She was a little sad
because we weren't gonna teach her anymore and she told us that we
would always have a special place in her heart because we were the
first to find and introduce the gospel to her, but at the same time
she was really happy and excited to take this new step in her life. I
think she is being baptized on December 12th.

Yesterday was a great day because we had a zone conference, and it was
awesome! My mission president is soooo cool and everytime that we have
these conferences with him I feel reenergized and just ready to go out
and do the work, I don't know how he does it but it's so motivational
and so uplifting that I don't even know how to decried it. Also we got
to see a new video that the church came out with for Christmas and it
actually doesn't come out until November 29th but we got to see it
early and it is so cool, I can't wait until it comes out so I can show
it to people.

Also I forgot to say this before but right now I'm sitting at the
church writing this email and the house of Edgar Allan Poe is right
across the street, it's kinda random but it's pretty cool. Thats
pretty much it.

Love,
Elder Pugmire