Nov 9 - 16, 2009

It has been a little slow again this week, but we might be introducing the baptismal commitment to one investigator. If she does get baptized, it will be the first baptism this area has ever seen. My companion was actually here when the area was created five transfers ago. My bike seat has started tilting back and I think the screw is stripped so it just slides back at each bump.

We've started missionary choir practice. We're eventually going to sing/perform some Christmas hymns. It's pretty fun.

And I've now finished Jesus the Christ. As far as a favorite part, it might actually be where the Jews are stubbornly condemning Jesus before Pilate. A heathen, and a sinful one at that, is defending their king, but the Jews are determined to put his blood on their head. His telling of the event, with great pathos, brought water to my eyes.

We got a baptismal date with an investigator! It's set for December 6th, the last day of the current transfer. We had the President of the Relief Society with us when we taught our investigator this last time. That's when we got the baptismal date. The member was a big help seeing as she was a convert herself. Our mission is reading the first four books of the New Testament in honor of the Christmas season.

Side note - the locals keep their Christmas lights up all year. They usually staple them to the house and then add the yard decorations.

And please tell Aunt Barbara "Thanks" for the check she sent.

Until next time, with love, Your son, Adrian

Nov 2, 2009

I had a great opportunity and experience this past week. I was able to attend a sealing session at the temple. It was my first time seeing it for living people. A brother and sister in the ward, married ten years ago when one was not a member, were able to get sealed in the temple along with their four kids. I don't get the opportunity that often in the mission field to go to the temple so this was a real treat.

This week we somehow had five investigators at church for the first time in my mission. We weren't expecting four of them. They are an investigating couple and their two daughters. We had been working with another sister trying to help her get her kids to Church when this family showed up. We've had some cool experiences out here, so in short, however things turn out, my great hope is to be worthy of the trust that Heavenly Father has put in us with the investigators we have.

Keep those letters coming!

October 22, 2009

We had two investigators at Sacrament meeting this week... One of them is actually a brand new investigator. We met her this past week. She's had a little exposure before and she wanted to come to Church but she needed a ride. We agreed to get her one and asked a less-active sister and her husband to giver her a ride. This provided a little more commitment on their part. Since the husband is a non-member that made two investigators. What's more, there just so happened to be a baptism after church that day and our new investigator stayed to watch it. The part-member husband still has to work through a smoking problem.

My bicycle tire exploded the other day. It happened while my companion and I were talking for the first time to a neat family, especially the head of the household. The father said he had a brother whose life he saw change for the better because of the Gospel and so now he is interested in the message as well (wow). We gave him a Libro de Mormon and he kind of started trying to read it right there, before we finished talking to him.

We've been working and meeting with all sorts this week from meeting with less-actives and talking about science and religion, to crazy tracting stories, including kids scared of 2012, people who like us, people who hate us, people of every shape, size , type and sort.