Leadership Council and Plenty of Travelling (Week 63)

Boa tarde!!

So this week our proselyting time was VERY limited! We had to travel to São Paulo on Sunday night and stayed there until Tuesday morning getting things ready for the mission's leadership council. As always, the office never really cooperates in the most crucial moments so the internet stopped working and then the energy fell in the neighbourhood. We were left planning the meeting on paper, leaving everything else for the night before. Classic.

We made really cool letters for the leaders of the mission. I photo-shopped their faces onto missionary bodies and made then literally walk on water. We then wrote handwritten letters for all the zone leaders, sister training leader and for President and Sister Farnes. It was fun but our hands got a bit tired after a while! They turned out pretty great in the end!

The leadership council on Thursday was pretty fun. Despite us having almost pulled an "all-nighter" getting everything ready for the training, we managed to do alright. In the meeting we talked a lot about how we can avoid having a victim mentality. What does that mean? That means avoiding pointing the finger at others when things don't go to plan and creating excuses and covering up mistakes. By assuming responsibility we become agents to act and will have an increased capacity to grow and improve.

Cycle from upper word, clockwise: See it → Own it → Fix it → Do it

Attitudes of a Victim: 1. Ignore or deny, 2. "It's not my responsibility", 3. Point the finger, 4. "Tell me what to do", 5. Hide failures or errors, 6. Wait and see

Us four assistants did a little role play on how we can be victims in missionary work and everyone there was able to see themselves in the play at one point of their mission. It was funny but insightful! :) After lunch we took the leadership picture, amazing missionaries!!

This week we had the chance to teach the restoration in the gospel principles class and it was wonderful to feel the spirit testifying once again to these recent converts and investigators of the truthfulness of the gospel! :)

Today on our p-day we went to the shopping and had some açai... Mmm.. That is all! :D

Love you all, next week's blog will be better!

Elder Torres