Busy Busy Week!

a real palm tree. a REAL one. not imitation
Cacao Beach

Thats my branch
presidents house. doesnt have a front door. doesnt need one.

My District

Cacao Beach

Cacao Beach

The First Vision

Cacao Beach

Fishing

Hey there. Go ducks.

Day by day... Tuesday and Wednesday we worked normally. We work a lot with our branch
president. He’s honestly the greatest guy. I’ve never met anyone as humble as him. Wednesday we had branch counsel though. We had to run the whole thing. Elder Bertrand says that it was the 2nd one in the history of the branch. And the first was last month.

There are members that have been members a really long time but they still don’t know how things really work. And There’s a ton of less actives. There are 412 people on the records and 24 came last Sunday. So we have lots of work to do.

Thursday we had a zone meeting in Perez Zeledon. My first zone meeting. it was 4 hours away.
We got up at 4 to take the bus at 4:45 to have the meeting at 11. Then we stayed there and went to a lesson with the sisters there. We helped with a family they have that the guy can’t quit smoking. We made a cigarette smoothie and gave him a blessing. He hasn’t smoked since. We then got on a bus at 630 to come home and got home at 1030.

Saturday we went to a member’s house that lives 2 hours away on bus and comes every single Sunday.

Then Sunday we were in meetings and doing numbers all day. No one from the primary
showed up so me and Bertrand switched off. He gave them the lesson then i did sharing time with them. And in the first hour i taught the gospel principles class and we had a family of
investigators that we had been fighting for this weekend. They hadn’t really been excited about committing to getting married and baptized. So In the class we talked about the Holy Ghost and i had the other converts in there share their testimonies about how they know that the church is
true. They all were crying and so right then i committed them to be baptized and married this Saturday and they accepted so I’m hoping that it all works out.

Then after that i had to whip up a quick sharing time. At first all the kids just wanted to run out in the hall but i got them together and just started teaching them the only few Spanish children’s songs that i know all of by heart. Then it all worked out and i had them draw things. I had them draw what they think about when they think of God and they all stood up and shared it with everyone.

Then we had to get on a bus an hour to Rio Claro to a district presidency meeting with all the branch presidents and district president, and we held a training. Then we went back to our church to have a PEC and presidency meeting all of which we conducted because no one had done them before. Saturday night we were in the church until 11 taking out all the tithing settlement info for Sunday. Then we had to finish it all Sunday night.

I’ve learned so much about leading branches and districts and we have to do all the church finances. People that need economic help we fill out the forms and get them approved. I never
imagined all that dad had to do as a bishop. But there’s so much, and I’m doing it on a much smaller scale.

Then today we went with the branch president to Golfito to the beach and we cooked meat and platanos on the beach. We went to cacao beach. It was pretty sweet.

I'm out. Gotta go. Love you, Elder Graham