Oct. 11 -17

This week was pretty cool and pretty crasy. It was the first full week of the new transfer and companionship. We are working on changing the schedule so our appointments aren't so far away from each other. So we dropped a couple investigators and are talking to a lot of new people. But the work is doin good, we still have a lot of members working with us and a few good progressing investigators.
Nanay Onia has been an investigator forever now, since before I got to Bani, but we taught her about prayer and we finally committed her to give the closing prayer. While she was praying, she started to cry.
Also it was the same situation with Bro. Paumba, he has yet to pray for us, but we got his wife, who is a member to help him, and Bro. would repeat what Sis. said. So that was at least a step.
We also have a few who are interested and reading the Book of Mormon.
Depressingly we had no investigators attend church and only 60 total. Maybe they got like a hangover from general conference last week, because there was no church. Hopefully next week it will be better.
Last Monday at Family Home Evening, I learned a lot from a story that a member shared to us. It was about this guy, he was a member and it seemed like he did all he had to do in life to enter the Celestial Kingdom. He served a full time mission, he fulfilled his calling, he has a great family that are married in the temple, he didn't smoke, drink, wasn't prideful or get angry. But come to judgement he couldn't enter into the Celestial Kingdom even though he thought he was worthy to enter. The reason was he wasn't completely honest. Just little things like not returning the cashier money if they paid him too much kept him from being completely honest and entering God's kingdom. So I just really learned a lot from that lesson, and that really really don't know if we are worthy enough, we can always improve something and we can always repent.
Also I learned from the Special Training we had in Santa Cruz about the importance of teaching with the spirit, how it helps us as missionaries and the investigators.
On Tuesday after district meeting, we go to this one area that is farmland, rice fields. And we were there late teaching the family of a recent convert, Emma Jimenez. So we had to walk through the fields in the dark. We did have flashlights but it rained a lot that day so the path was muddy. We (me, my comp, and a branch missionary, Joshua) also had our nice, good shoes on too, especially my comp his shoes were really nice. So there we were trudgin along, we also got a little lost too, cuz the rice grew a ton since the last time I was there. Joshua and I both slipped once. So that was a lot of fun. Well that is it for this week. Elder Pennock