....Lightening Storms and Lost Sheep

Heeeeeeey family....

Sorry for not writing yesterday, there is an excellent reason why i did not. I think im going to go backwards in my week to get the explaining done and then go on with the rest of the week.

Yesterday was one of the most perfect days to do our lil zone activity of climbing to the tallest mountain in our mission. We prayed way hard for good weather and we got it. Lately it has been cold and rainy and lightning storms, but I´ll talk about that later. Yesterday was not one of those days. Yesterday there was perfect blue skies with lots of clouds. We started off on our trail at about 6 a.m. It was a fun hike and although it was long, everyone made it. (even the hermanas) We took a TON of pics which ill have to send some day. They are awesome pics. We had a devotional/testimony meeting on top of the clouds when we got to the top with a lot of the Elders talking about the symbolism between hiking the mountain and the mission. (Example: It´s not the mountain before us that stops us from getting to the top, but the pebble in the shoe) That might sound better in spanish, but I personally liked that one.
So everything was great. We thought it went perfectly until it took a terrible twist. Elder Francis and I were the last ones to go back down after saying some prayers on top of the mountain. A fourth of the way down we hear ´´help, Elderes, we´re lost´´ SOMEHOW, some of the Elders and one of the Hermanas got WAY off the camino on the way down. We went to a high rock and they were in a valley and were yelling to us that they cant get out and they can´t turn around to the way that they went down cause it was too high to get back up. (among the group was Elder Golledge so I felt a personaly responsability to go get em out. We had to have a rescue team of Elder Ficachi, Elder Palomec and I. We went down to where they were and had to drag them up from the bottom of the valley to the top of the mountain again. The hermana broke her shoes so we had to help her a ton and she used some Elders shoes.
Yea..... Its a long story. To make a long story short, we all got out safe. (but 5 hours later than planned) That didnt give us much time to do anything else. Especially because we had to come to the offices last night to sleep here. It was fun last night because there are a lot of tight zone leaders. A lot of really good friends. Elder Arnett, Elder Romney, Elder Slade, Elder Francis, Elder Allen, etc. We played games all night and didnt get much sleep. Fun stuff. Its been a while since ive stayed up late. Today (in like 10 minutes) is the zone leader council meeting with President Nancollas. Im doing a presentacion on ORGANIZATION and gaining confidence of the investigators. Im super pumped. Usually missionaries (except the assistants) dont really give presentations so I am really excited about it.

So i dont have much time so ill just give a recap of the week.
One of the days walking through the graveyard on the way to church there was a thunderbolt storm all around us. We literally saw lightning hit close 4 times.

This week the hermana Perla and the hermana Amalia are getting baptized. They are way excited to follow Jesus.

My new wards (especially Bishops) are AWESOME. They gave me the ´´welcome to the ward´´ and I gave my testimony in sacrament meeting. It went well. Im way happy to be in this area. My last wards Bishop was a power hungry freak that didnt help us. (I forgive him though)

We set a record in the mission as a zone for finding new investigators in a week. With 12 companionships we had over 200. Theres a lot of people to teach. I love it.

I cant really think of what else. Ill just answer a couple questions. Im not getting gram and gramps emails..... Im excited to see Halloween pics.... This year Elder Francis and I have some ideas to dress up. We´ll see what happens.

Sorry i gotta cut it short. Next week we arent going to have a zone activity. I promise to write more. I love the work. Wouldnt trade this for anything. Its the work of the Lord. The church is true. Have a great week.

Con amor,
Elder Heap