Referrals for days

Hey everybody how's it going?? This week has been a little different
because last week we had a zone meeting with president and he really
threw down about contacting referrals as fast as we can so that we can
have new people to teach and since Christmas to up until now or zone,
the Kingsbridge zone has been terrible at contacting referrals because
there's not enough time in the day to contact all of them, well at
least not in the English program because since Christmas they have
received like over 170 referrals and that is super crazy considering
the fact that we maybe get like 1 or 2 every week.

So basically this whole week we have been looking up all these
referrals, we have about 20 referrals that we have to do and they want
us to get them done as fast as we can so that kinda puts our own work
on hold because the travel alone to some of these places where these
people live takes a few hours every day by bus and by subway. But it's
been kinda fun to see some different parts of the Bronx and different
areas where I have never been to before.

Even thought with all of these referrals that we have to do we still
had a little bit of time to teach some really awesome lessons.

Last Saturday I was on a split with the district leader Elder Miller,
and we were working in his area and we had a really good day, I would
say that this split was by far the best split of my mission and we had
2 really awesome lesson, one with some investigators and one with this
one active family, I forgot what their names were but they were so
cool, they had a incredible convention story and we had a really good
lesson about holding on to the iron rod and about scripture reading
and how the scriptures can help us and give us answers to the
questions we have. Through prayer we can communicate to our Heavenly
Father and he sometimes if not always talks to us through the
scriptures.

On Monday we received news that we were gonna have a elder from the DR
come and stay with us in our apartment for a few days and that he was
gonna come that night so we decided to stay home for like a hour or
two after studies and clean the apartment, it was super nasty and
gross and we stayed way longer the one or two hours it was like 3 1/2
hour of straight cleaning but when we were done the place looked super
good and it looked like a totally different apartment. We threw out
all the nasty clothes that have been sitting in the closet for the
past maybe 3 years and we deep cleaned the heck out of it and by the
time we were done cleaning there was like 6 or 7 gigantic bags of
garbage. The cleanliness didn't last for very long because now 2 days
later there's stuff everywhere.

I don't know much about this elder except his name Elder Ramos and
that he served for 21 months and half of his mission he served in the
DR and half in Texas, but I think he came here to get residency
because he wants to live here with his dad, but I don't know why he
just didn't come after his mission was over, also another big thing is
that yesterday we found out that the process to get his residency is
gonna take a little time so he might be here for the next 1-2 weeks
instead of 1-2 but the good thing is that his dad lives in our area
and has been less active for about a year and so now that his
missionary son is here he might actually come to church now.

Also we found a really good food store to go shopping at that has
super cheap foods and so now I'm not just eating ramen all the time
although I do eat it pretty often Now I can actually eat some
healthier foods haha.

Love,
Elder Pugmire