Hello!
Happy 4th of July! I hope you
all ate a ton of food and blew some stuff up for me! Yesterday was a normal day
here. Here the Independence Day in most of Central America is the 15th of
September, so maybe that day will be slightly more interesting for me!
As an office missionary a big
challenge is balancing the time in between the office work and the missionary
work in our areas. I think finally this change we are starting to work super
effectively. In the past week we have received a ton of new references and new
investigators. It is difficult balancing the time between the two places because
the work is never done in the office, and it is definitely never done in our
area either. So we are excited to be working with all of these new
investigators we are finding.
So we were going to have a
baptism this Saturday, but we decided that they are not quite ready. Maybe in
the future weeks they will be ready to be baptized.
Right now the mission is
officially divided and we are working as two separate offices. Now we are
looking for a new office location for our mission. We are still in the same
office, but the problem is that it is outside of our mission, so to get here
everyday we have to leave our mission boundaries. The challenge is that all the
safe areas are located in the other mission, so we haven't been able to find any
good, safe places for the new offices.
Unfortunately the East mission
(that I am in) has some of the most dangerous parts of the country such as
Soyapango, Ilopango and Apopa. Those places are sketchy. My area is about
medium on the dangerous scale. Some areas we don´t even go because they are
infested with members of the 18 gang. They are rivals to the famous MS. I feel
super strange talking about them now, its like Voldemort, you just don´t talk
about the gang names here. Anyways, our ward mission leader lives in the heart
of MS territory and he can't come to appointments with us because our side of
the area is pure 18. So yeah, for that, it can be hard finding members to come
to appointments and such.
But don´t worry, my area is
super safe compared to others. Just hope I don´t go to Soyapango. There is an
area in that zone called "La Campanera", the Elder´s house in that
area is covered in MS13 graffiti on all the walls, super sketchy. I never want
to go there!
Other than the dangerous areas that my mission has, I think
it is a sweet mission because we have all of the east zones like San Vicente,
Usulutan, San Miguel and La Union, over there are some of the best wards and
staked in the country, it is where everyone wants to be! Other than the fact
that San Miguel is the hottest city in the whole country. It would be cool to
go there!
Well, that´s all for now. I
hope that you all have a great weekend, Talk to you next time!
Elder Vaughan
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