email excerpts 5/25 - 6/8

Dear Family and Friends,

Below are some excerpts from the latest emails and letters from Adrian. These go oldest to most recent...
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May 25 - (two weeks in the mission field)

We had a baptism in our ward this past week. That was pretty cool, of course. She was pretty happy. Three of her four daughters had already been baptized. The fourth will be in two years.

Another investigator has a baptismal date this Saturday. He's a good-natured guy with a good family. Three of his kids came to church with him this last week. (He kind of reminds me of Uncle David except his kids are younger. They probably would have gotten along.) He's big, so we're going to have two elders get into the font to baptize him. His kids may join in the future.

We watched "The Restoration" in Spanish three times this past week with other investigators.

June 1 -

The 16-year-old George we're teaching speaks English. It's pretty cool to see how much the younger generation is learning English. The kids get a chance to learn a language their parents don't know...

June 8 -

One of the cool experiences I've had up here is seeing the good fruits of the gospel in other people's lives. With the two recent converts who have just been baptized, and how happy they were to have found the Gospel. Also, in a less active who has been reactivated. We visited him once when he hadn't been to church one week (we visit him kinda often) and it was interesting and kind of apparent to see the difference between when he had gone to church and when he hadn't in how he talked, how he treated his family and how he was more at rest when he'd been to church. It's great to see this in the lives of others, adding to what I have seen in my life, even when they don't always entirely realize it themselves (like the less active).

As far as events in my last week are concerned, it's been pretty normal ... Just trying to get our investigators to progress and still trying to find new ones at the same time. We're trying to get the investigators into the Book of Mormon and actually read it, or we're trying to get them to church past various problems like work, family, or laziness, or we're trying to actually meet them at the appointments we have with them.

We did find one nice lady recently. We originally tracted into her sister, Angelica, the week before. But when we came back to meet with her, we met Olga. Olga is actually the only one to actually begin lessons so far.

Hope you enjoyed these tidbits,

Kristi