April 5, 2010

Hola mi familia,
Sounds like a fun time in California to see Grandma Wood in the mission and a good conference weekend. (Our family traveled to Sacramento, California to visit Grandma Wood in her mission over Spring Break). A lady told me today in the market that there was an earthquake in the states last night. She said it was in southern California. Did you guys feel it? From the talks we heard in conference, it sounds like there´s been earthquakes and tsunamis everywhere the last couple months; crazy.

We got to watch all of conference, but not priesthood because it was at 9 at night. On Saturday we could only go to conference if we brought investigators or new members, and we had a really good show up. We had investigors in all the sessions; 9 that had never been to church before and all commited and came this week. It was amazing. We´ve never had that many people complete with their commitments, especially with going to the church. We also had 4 inactive families come; 2 of the families are incomplete with the dad not being a member. So this weekend was a wonderful opportunity for all these people to have the chance to hear from the prophet and the apostles and authorities that we have on the earth today. And I know that being able to hear the conference is really going to help all of them with their testimonies; and hopefully they can all continue coming to church, and not just to conference. But it was a really good experience, although half of the last session we didn´t really have a signal because, come to find out, there was a spider in the control box crawling in the wires- that tells you a little about what kind of spiders we have here.

Rosio´s baptism is this Saturday, so that´s going to be really good. And we have a couple of investigators that went to conference yesterday that we really want to set baptismal dates for them this week for the next coming weeks. Hopefully it all works out. We´re being blessed with new people to teach, but we have to do all we can to keep finding more and to help all the people we´re teaching to arrive at repentance and to baptism.

It´s also been really good to see the inactive members come to church. Yesterday sister Brandan came to church with her non-member boyfriend and non-member mother. It´s been almost 15 years since the last time she attended church, but we´ve been teaching them the last couple months, and she never came to church because she had been offended by members looking down on her for not having nice clothes 15 years ago. But she came, and she had the biggest smile on her face as we left the chapel. It was wonderful to see her start to make the changes in her life that the Lord wants for her.

It would be nice to have the Ensign too, if you could send it, because I wasn´t able to see priesthood session, and some the talks will probably be a little different in English.

Well I´ll talk to you next week my family.
Love, David