October 25, 2010

Hey family,
That's awesome that Mikayla's team won the championship, but crazy because she looks way different in all the pictures. (The Riverton 7th/8th Volleyball team took first place in the season ending tournament against the 9th grade Hillcrest team.) At least BYU didn't lose to Wyoming at home. That would of been a disaster, but it sounded like a fun game with the rain and all.

My new companion is Elder Sypherd from Chico, California; a town north of Sacramento. He's awesome, but Spanish is a struggle. He struggles even answering where he's from and bearing his testimony, but we'll improve little by little.

His second day we took out 3 baptismal dates with a family that we're teaching. They're 3 sisters, Nancy, Maura, and Elena. We've been teaching them the last couple of weeks, and Elena has been progressing a ton. She's 23 and she smokes quite a bit, but we set goals with her to stop smoking 1 cigarette a day, but in a week and a half, she already dropped from like 20 a day to 5. And she's really willing to make the changes necessary in her life and she had a really good experience with the Book of Mormon and prayer. And she knows that God answered her and that the things we teach are true. They have a date set for the 20th of November, so we hope they can continue keeping the commitments and preparing for the day of their baptism.

We have lots of people that are really progressing well, and we pray to be able to find those that are prepared to receive the gospel this week, and that we can help them all to make it the the waters of baptism and to make covenants with our Heavenly Father.

I hope everything goes well this week with you guys, and I'll talk with ya'll next week.
Love, David