Letter from Oct. 13, 2014
Hey Mom,
About my new area, the place is literally
bursting with energy. The members here are ON FIRE! I've realized that this
area is definitely hard. The area is huge and it's widespread, not to
mention, the concentration of Latinos are all over the place and
practically hidden. However, Elder Osorio and I have identified the
problem: one, we have not explored other areas, two, the stake is unaware
of our circumstances, and three, we have been contacting the same people
over and over again. To combat the problems that we have here,
we created a plan of action. Because my companion and I both have plans
for the military in the future, we came up with, "Operation
Ignite!". Like the name, we want to ignite the Spanish work here in El
Dorado. We have 3 objectives that we are going to meet. We want to start
growing a pool of progressing investigators, we want to have firm STAKE
member support, and we want to reactivate the very small group of members and
recent converts that we have to solidify our current group. We have
the details all planned out and we have met with a few of the ward
mission leaders from around the stake, our bishop, and our stake
president. They are all behind us 100%. We have received 4 referrals
after implementing this operation two days ago. We have an investigator
already, named Margarita Mendoza, who is progressing towards baptism. We
are going to set a date with her for this month. We are very stoked. We
can feel the energy and the urgency of the work here. We can't wait to
see the fruits of it all. El Dorado is definitely going to ignite. The area
has so much potential. The real problem that this area has had is the
fact that the missionaries that worked here were not that experienced
and also weren't very creative.
Elder Osorio is the perfect companion
for me to have here. He has been out for 8 months and is still figuring
it all out, but he will be just fine. He is a fast learner. The guy is
also very organized. I have done what I can to help him, but he has done
80% of the work in organizing the area books, the registries, dividing
the area maps accordingly, and he has been making files for the members
in El Dorado that speak Spanish, so we can use them to help aid our work
here. The guys is really on top of things. He is also a native from
Mexico. His Spanish is fluent, which is a bonus! I didn't want to help
another missionary work on his language while we were here. In short,
work is progressing here and we are very excited to make it all explode
in the City of Gold.
I
am happy to hear things are going [good] at home...I also hope that Benjamin will be able to
continue to excel in martial arts. He is pretty good at being basically
great at everything he does. And from what Dad has been telling me, he
has been a very busy boy and also a great help to you. That does me good
to see that he really has magnified his callings, especially as a son,
above and beyond the call of duty. I keep him and, of course, all of you
in my prayers. Not much more to mention. I love you all.
Elder Sierra
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