This week was good. I stayed in the same area, and I am training again. My new companion is Elder Lago from Colombia. We were able to have some pretty good success this week. My new companion is a little shy, but pretty much everyone is at the start. I can tell that he is kind of nervous in the lessons, but he teaches pretty well for being new. I hope to help him a lot, so that he will be able to guide the area when I leave and so that he will be able to have success in his mission. I had never really thought of trainers being so important, but I have been thinking about it and it really will change the rest of their missions. I am going to do my best to be able to help him be a great missionary. The meeting we had with Elder Bednar was so amazing; I have been trying to apply the pattern that he used with us, on our investigators. I haven’t gotten very good at it yet, but I know it will come with practice. I learned so much, and like he taught I received revelation for me and my area that I know will help us to have more success here, and that will change my way of seeing things. I was kind of sick this week, and couldn’t talk very much or very well, but I had to keep talking a lot because my new companion doesn’t talk very much.
Love, Elder Monson
