Mission Week 59, Sogamoso Week 12, "It's been so fun learning and helping the other missionaries to grow."

I'm starting to get the hang of things here as a leader. I had no idea how much responsibility a Zone Leader had until I got here haha. It's been so fun learning and helping the other missionaries to grow and also to learn from each and every one of them. The zone here had a LOT of changes. Almost every companionship changed! Elder Rosales and I are the only companionship that had no changes. We are super excited to work with all the new Elders and Sisters that will be arriving to the zone. Transfers are always really crazy in this mission haha!

This week we went to Yopal for a baptismal interview. I had the opportunity to do the interview. In fact that was the first interview that I've done in my mission! I was so nervous! It was so cool. Her name was Monica and she answered every question like it was nothing! She was very prepared for her baptism.

This week we taught The Family Garcia Figueredo. They are a sweet family consisting of Nieves (Mom), Duban (son), Edit (daughter). This week we were able to invite them to be baptized and they said yes! We shared 3 Nephi 27 with them. This chapter is one of my favorites because it talks about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and all of the things we need to do in order to return to live with our Father in Heaven again. They want to be baptized! They love to read in the Book of Mormon whenever we come over. Especially Nieves. She's very sweet.

Someone else that we have been teaching is David. He's 24 years old. We found him knocking on doors. He invited us in right away. He was curious who we were, because he's always heard about the church and The Book of Mormon. He has a Friend in the church named Angie who's leaving to go on a mission in Argentina. She's been talking with David about the Church and what we believe and little things here and there. He loved reading the story about Jesus Christ coming to the Americas. Something that really hit me is when we shared with him the Scriptures in Moroni 10 3-5. After I had explained the scriptures to him, he told me that you spoke like a Latino! He told me he couldn't tell whether I was Latino or a North American in that moment. Haha! That was a super cool experience for me that helped me to realize that the promise in 2 Nephi 32: 2-3. We're going to set a baptismal date for David this week!

The Church has started a new Program called English Connect. It's a free class that the church is offering to learn English. We started the first class this Saturday. Since I'm the only "Gringo" here I went to go help out. It was super fun! We were able to teach a class full of students of about 30 people. They all learned the alphabet, how to introduce themselves to others, and how to pray in English.

This Sunday as we were entering the door to the chapel, Brother Gutierrez (2nd counselor of the bishop) came up to me and "Reminded" me of my talk that I had in sacrament meeting. I had no idea that I had a talk that day. BUT as many missionaries have gone through this I figured it'll be a piece of cake. It turned out to be great! I talked about the importance of Knowing the doctrine and how to continue to grow your testimony. 

The week was absolutely great and I hope that yours will be even greater!

Love you all!
Elder Horton