April 19, 2010

Hola familia:
I´m glad Dad and Mikayla had good birthdays. Mikayla´s party sounds interesting....I mean fun (Mikayla's 13th birthday party was a spa with foot massages and pedicures at our house). Sounds like Dad is surrounded by girls. At least Derek and Troy are still around.

That´s a cool experience with the guy from Kentucky, that you were able to talk about baptism and about the authority to baptize. (One of Dean's co-workers has been asking about our church because he knows David is serving a mission). Missionary work goes a lot smoother when members are there helping, even if it´s just something simple like explaining baptism to someone that doesn´t know; something that I never did before my mission. It seems alot harder sometimes to talk to friends or to people at work, but a lot of times it can have more of a lasting effect when friends and partners share their testimonies of the gospel, than two stangers in white shirts. And they will have a lasting support system when the missionaries leave.

It rained almost all week this week, so it was a cold, muddy week, and it was a little harder to enter houses, because the people here really don´t like water. But we have an investigator named Hugo that is really doing well. He had been an investigator before I got here, but he had been really been busy. But 3 weeks ago we were able to find him in his house and invited him to conference, and he came. And since then, he has come to church both Sundays and is really excited about the gospel, and is starting to share it with all his friends. He needs to be married, so this week we´re going try to set a date for marriage and for baptism. We´ll see how his wife will feel about marriage. She´s really Catholic, and won´t talk to us, but we'll see if she can´t warm up a little with time, because Hugo es re-capo (really cool).

Thank you mother, and family for all the packages you send. They make me happy, and your emails and letters.

Goodbye my family,
Love, David