November 1, 2010

Hola Familia,
That´s awesome that everything went well with Halloween this week. It sounds like everything´s still busy up there and that´s awesome.

Elena is still progressing a ton and is excited for her baptism on the 20th. We´ve been inviting all of our investigators to make the step of baptism, but we have quite a few that don't really want to commit to live certain principals, but we´re gonna work hard and help and invite them all to make this important step of baptism.

We had a really good lesson with Norah and Marisol this week, the family from Bolivia that work on Sundays. They commited to come to stake conference this Sunday instead of work and the fair, so that will be a huge step for them, and we hope it will be a good experience and that they`ll be able to put forth the faith and keep the Sabbath Day holy in the future and take the step of baptism.

This week for stake conference Elder Foster from the seventy is coming and the first 40 minutes before stake conference starts, he´s going to have a little meeting with just the recent converts and investigators. So that´s going to be really awesome.

Elder Sypherd´s spanish is still struggling. It´s a lot harder for him than it was for Elder Pratley, because he´s quiet too. He just doesn´t talk, and I even ask him questions like how something helps him and he still can´t get past a broken sentence. We´ve got to keep building his confidence in speaking. That's the main problem. But we´re going to keep working hard, and the Spanish will come. It's more important that we complete everything we´ve been asked to do, and then the blessings, then the gift of tongues will come, but it´s still really hard for him right now.

With being district leader now, everything is a lot busier, and this week we have to travel almost 2 and a half hours to go to some interviews for the hermanas in my district. So we always have less time in our area, but we have to keep improving and getting more done in our area. So it´s a little more stressful, but we´re going good.

Well I´m glad everything's going good up in the land of Utah. I guess we´ll talk again next week.

Love, David