Well. It’s been a big
week. We had changes on Wednesday and Elder Carcamo left our little area
of Jacandas 2 to become a Zone Leader in Amatitlán. Now for a little
background. The changes are always read by one of the assistants to President Brough.
This time they were read by Elder Huish, a legend in our mission who has been
an assistant for 6 months. He is renowned as probably the best missionary in
the mission and is known for his ability to ''kill'' on divisions, i.e. walk so
rapidly that the other missionary feels like he's going to die.
Anyway, I've often
been impressed by how well he teaches and how hard he works as I’ve seen him
in zone conferences. Anyway, as I'm sure you can guess when he got to
Jacarandas 2 he said, ''Elder Cannon recibe a... this guy.'' Yep, so here I am, working with a missionary
who just went from being an assistant to being my companion. At first I was understandably pretty nervous
to have Elder Huish as a companion, but I quickly realized how great of a
blessing that is. I'm so excited to learn and improve so much during this
change. It's nice to have a companion who's exactly obedient and really works
hard in every aspect of the Work.
Immediately we began
to see miracles in our area. We've had members give us incredible references,
inactive members bringing their unbaptized children to church, and non-members
we had never talked to showing up on Sunday. In all, we had 14
investigators attending church this Sunday (although 4 of them showed
up after the sacrament, so their attendance didn't count). It really is amazing
how much the Lord is helping us to do our part to meet the goal of 400
baptisms. I'm convinced this will be a very successful change. Honestly, I've
never loved being a missionary so much. It’s like what I've always imagined my
mission would be like.
In all, I'm doing very
well and having a lot of success. I feel like the Nephites when Nephi
said, (in Helaman I think) ''and nothing, save it were iniquity, could
keep them from prospering'' and I'm not going to become an iniquo (wicked
person) anytime soon, so I think we're good!
Love, Elder Cannon
My completed abacus. It took a few weeks
because I had to modify it to be able to work. It’s pretty cool, although I was
slightly disappointed to learn that the magic of an abacus is just doing basic
operations one place value at a time. I guess there's probably more complicated
stuff you can do that I don't know.
Hermano Giovanni Flores
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