Monday after conference we got to talk with Preston. He had a lot of changes this last week starting on the Tuesday after we talked to him. He was headed to the mission home to be matched with his new Greenie Companion. He was going to be senior companion as well as a new trainor. He was so excited but also a little scared. He was ready to teach a new greenie and thought he could handle that it was the spanish he was a little worried about. He didn't know if he was prepared to be in charge of that part. He will do fine though. So he went straight into telling us about his new companion and how his name is Elder Harden. He is from the states and did summer sales so thinks this mission thing should be a cake walk since he already had to do summer sales. lol. He thinks he is great at spanish, but still has to ask Preston what did they say every 2 seconds. He can't be out of the loop Preston says. Preston says he remember when he first came out and couldn't understand he would wait for them to stop talking then look at his companion to fill him in. Well Elder Harden can not wait and while Preston or the other person is still talking he is looking at Preston going what's he saying. Preston says its funny and hard. Like one time they contacted these girls and they said they wanted to be baptised and Preston told them they needed to ask their mom or dad. Well out walks this big old guy and he is huge yelling what's this about being baptised and then going off. Preston is trying to talk to the dad and calm him down and his companion keeps saying what's he saying? and Preston is trying to listen to spanish, speak spanish,and has to hear his comp while the dad was talking to Preston the companion starts to teach a lesson in 1st Nephi. Since its the only spanish he knows lol and Preston has to stop him and say no Elder they don't even know what the book of mormon is let alone first nephi. Anyway I butchered the story but we were all laughing as Preston told it ot us. The Elder just wanted to be included so just started in on a lesson he knew while the dad was upset with the Elders. Preston said they had a couple neat experiences this last week. They were using the phone GPS and it was supposedly taking them where they needed to walk but they thought they were lost...then this lady yells out Preston's name and he recognizes her but figure out where. Well while Preston was on divisions a few months back they walked over an hour to this small village where their was this woman that asked if they had money to give her because her daughter had been kidnapped and she needed money. They told her they didn't have any but prayed with her and told her they would pray for the girl by name in their prayers every night. Well it was this lady and she told Preston her daughter had been found and returned home. Preston set up an apt with them for this week so he is excited to go visit them, but the special part was that as they got done talking to his women their GPS changed course and told them they were like 30 minutes away from where they needed to be going. Preston siad he was mad at first because it was a waste of walking but then his new comp humbly reminded him that it was probably the spirit helping guide them to this lady. Another story he shared was about torro driver they got one time. His wife was driving with him and made small talk with the Elders. She let them know that she had read the BOM before and believed it to be true, she loved it. Her husband the driver kept telling her to stop talking but she would shh him and keep going on about the BOM. They also have an apt set up with her as well this week . They had a lot of promising people on tap to be baptised but none of them came to church on Sunday. So Preston says they are changing their focus and going to focus instead of getting all 8 investigators to church focus on like 2 and make sure they can get them to church. He said he loved Elder Eyring's talk but honestly didn't get to hear very much of conference because they did service and build some stairs up a mud hill for a lady and then had people that needed them to come see them. Anyway he said he was excited to go back through and listen and read them. He is doing great and worked so hard this last week. He said his new comps feet are so bad from all the walking they've been doing. Their mission covers a big area so if they don't catch a bus or ride and pay for it they have to do a lot of walking so they don't blow through their money so fast. He is growing and learning so much and its fun to hear and see how he is changing.
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