Week 93 Progress!!!

This past week has been a blast! We have been a whole lot busier teaching less-active members and non members and some active members in the mix. Teaching is my all time favorite part of missionary work. When we teach an individual and they come prepared (hopefully), having read and prayed and contemplated what we had left them last time, we then follow up with them ask them about their experience, if it inspired any question and what they personally got from it. Then we get into the goods, an inspiring stream of thought with doctrine, soul searching questions, scriptures and personal testimony paired with experiences. The room fills with light and our minds and buzzing with excitement. Then you see the light in their eyes. They get it. They understand.... then we help them apply their new found knowledge and light with assignments to read ponder and pray about. Then we leave having had an amazing spiritual experience.

That is what it is like when missionaries teach.

I love the wards I am serving in. I love the people and everything they stand for. 

Salutations!

~ Elder Alger

Do you see Sara in this picture? I found this print in our primary presidents home.

The view from our apartment early in the morning.

Week 92 Easter!

Easter Sunday!

It has been a lovely week in fine Peñasquitos Zone. We have been teaching more and more since I have been here. It is great we are becoming more and more involved with the members and it is starting to show. I love doing the work of the Lord but it is a lot more effective and fun when we work with the local members.

I also had the privilege of going on a companion exchange with Elder Platt, our district leader. He is a strange one but he wants to do what is best so that is what counts.

Sunday was awesome! Especially in the Del Sur Ward. There were at least 3 families that had brought a neighbor or friend that normally would not come to church. I had opportunity to sit next to one of them named Nina. She Is from Russia and is super nice. Maybe we can get her to come again. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼. Hopefully we can see her again tonight. 

I love the work. 

~Elder J. Alger

Elder Platt and Me

Week 91 Living in Luxury

This week has been insane! My first week in Peñasquitos 3rd, and Del Sur wards have been super busy. We have been meeting a lot of the members. Our areas here, Peñasquitos and Del Sur are very affluent so knocking doors and talking to people in the street is so very much less than effective. Luckily, we have some of the best members in Peñasquitos Stake. The members are always thinking about us and our well being it is awesome. 

They are also pretty good at sharing the gospel. Just yesterday after a family home evening at the Harris home we were able to pin point 4 individuals the family is going to reach out to and invite to Easter Sunday. 

Elder Seavey is a great companion as well. Like I said last week, he is a redhead which already puts him up in my mind. To add to that he is a great bible scholar and can answer just about any question you might have about doctrine in it. He is also a great teacher. I think I am in for a real treat this transfer. 

Oh and lastly, we have 3 investigators with baptism dates, Tom R. (husband of a returning less-acitve member), Tom K. (19 year old German exchange student), and Talan (10 year old unbaptized child of a returning less-acitve member). I have met Talan but both Toms are out of town for about the next month.

The mission is AWESOME!

~Elder J. Alger 

We do not have a can opener in our apartment so we had to get creative...

This is the richest part of our area. It is in a country club and every house looks like a castle!

Family Home Evening with the Harris family making cookies

Silly pic with the Harris family

The Peñasquitos Zone at the San Diego temple earlier this morning

Week 90 God Bless Penasquitos!

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I got transferred!

I am in a new city in our mission Called Penasquitos. It is super rich and we cannot do missionary work on our own here, only by working with members ( or so I have been told). I do not know much about this place yet but I will let you know next week.

In the mean time let's talk abut General Conference. I would have to say the Saturday afternoon session was my most favorite. I loved all of the speakers and I defiantly took the most notes. 

I love being a missionary. I am no longer a zone leader which means I get to spend ALL of my time doing missionary work and no Meetings! I am excited and to top things off I am companions with another redhead, Elder Seavey!

Love you! Bye.

~Elder J. Alger