Noah's Mission

MY FAREWELL TOUR!?! This week was something I wasn't expecting at all. However, I know that God did this on purpose for me. We had Zone conference this week and my mission president pulled me aside. Unfortunately, we had an Elder go home last week who was serving in Concepcion. The zone I served in a year ago. My mission President asked me if I could go out there for the week and work with this Elders companion. I was more than excited. So I took that 7 hour bus ride one last time and went through my old area. All I could do was just look and think about those 6 months serving in that little city in the middle of nowhere. More importantly, I gave a referral to these Elders there about a month ago through the program I started. The family got baptized and I was able to meet them and teach them. To see their joy and how grateful they were to have the Gospel, is something that I can't explain. And to top it off, I was able to go to Pedro Juan once more to see my old area als...

LAST ONE BOYS?!? Welp we had transfers this week and I will tell you that it was super weird to see how those Elders go. Those guys were getting trained when I was getting trained. Now this is my last transfer and my group has the most time in the mission than any other group.  Saturday we had a baptism and it was super cool. The baptismal service was kinda of crazy, but it was super awesome and the family was super excited and happy. They were confirmed on Sunday and are ready to keep learning. I finally got a companion to take over the program once I leave. His name is Elder Braatz and he is from northern California. He has got a good amount of time in the mission and I will be training him so he can run the program. We had leadership council and I had to present all the data from the program and it was pretty sick to do that. Love you all From your favorite, Elder Ressel

THE START OF THE END!?! This was our last week before transfers. We started preparing things for transfer week and getting ready for our leadership training conference that we have this week. I will have to give an update on all the things we have done and accomplished for the month of May. Which from what I have heard and seen. We have accomplished a ton.  To be honest the program was supposed to end last week. My mission president is going to tell me if we will continue going forward with it or not. However, I got a text from the Provo MTC that they want me to explain how I have been running the program over here and use this excel sheet that I made to track and contact the referrals. As my wise Mission President said, ´´We have won.´´ We have a senior mission couple here and they really like to treat us well. One of the office Elders will leave this week, so the senior couple took us all out to eat. We went to this super fancy Korean restaurant and I ate this...