16 nov

This week was really good. A lot of progress I think, and we had 6 > investigators in church yesterday. We have 5 dates for baptism, and > hopefully 2 are for this week. Remember Diego? The 10 year old? He and his > family stopped drinking and buying coffee. Remember them? This week we > have the baptism of his 12 year old brother, and we are hoping to baptise > the mother too. She got baptized 30 years ago with the first missionaries > in Nicaragua, but never got confirmed. She told me "Elder, I dont remember > the missionaries doing the confirmation with me like they did with Diego." > So I told her, " Dont worry, I dont remember mine either.." Haha. So that > was that until the bishop told us that they have been looking for her > records for about 3 weeks and there isnt anything. So.. she was telling > the truth. She was never a member. Gosh. Good thing we found these people > right? She never really went to church after her baptism, and had been > literally inactive for 20 years until we started teaching them. So, > woohoo. Another soul saved :) We are hoping to have her baptism this > saturday with her other son. We´ll see. I want to check in Salt Lake > before we do anthing. Also, we are hoping to get the birth certificate of > Carmen in order to get the passport in order to give it to the laywer in > order to get them married. They are still gold as ever. Just waiting. We > have their date for the 28th of Nov., but we´ll see what happens. We have > the other baptismal date for the 9th of January, but I think it will be in > december. The gorgeous girl ahs come to churc the past two weeks and is > wanting to change. She is progressing incredibly, its just the whole job > situation that isnt in line with the gospel standards that is in her way. > We are going to put a baptism date as a goal to have a hope to find > another job. She wants to change, but she works to feed 7 stomachs in her > house. Also, there are others, but they have a bit of time before their > baptisms. They need to do a little bit of the thing we call changing. > Coffee, marriages, etc. We are looking like crazy for the poeple that God > has prepared. Contacting, using members, etc. Its going well. Im doing > fine. Our area is huge so when we have to go up in the mountain we take a > bus or taxi (they cost the same) but other than that it´s all walking. > Always tired, always satisfied, right? My comp is progressing a lot. I > just need to stop talking in English totally. But, thats about it. Nothing > super cool.>>
Harrison