November 8, 2010

Hola familia,
That´s awesome about Brandon´s baptism Saturday. Sounds like he was very prepared to receive the gospel. It´s awesome that all of you guys could go and support him and Heidi. Sounds like BYU got it together this week and Utah fell apart. We´ll have to beat them good this year, being the last chance for a while that we´ll have to play them.

This week went well. Norah and Marisol made it to Stake Conference and it was a really good experience. Hopefully that trial of faith will help them to progress so that they can really prepare for baptism, and that they can have the faith to keep the Sabbath Day holy.

Also, we found a super awesome family on Thursday: Fredi, Rosi, and their son Fransisco. They are from Paraguay. Wednesday we were walking in the street to go to an appointment and a car pulled up next to us and stopped. It was Fredi and his wife Rosi. Fredi said that like 10 years ago he had talked a little with the missionaries and that they wanted us to pass by their house. So we went and they were really cool. They were born catholic, but never felt like that church was true, and are looking for the truth. They´re like in their late 20´s, early 30´s and their son is 9, and was really excited about helping us read the scriptures. We have a lot of hope that they are really going to progress well. We also found 2 other complete families, something we haven´t been able to do for a while, but that´s really important, finding complete families.

Also, we have an investigator José that´s 19, and we had a really good lesson with him Thursday after we helped him with his Calculus homework. I never thought Calculus would come in handy down here, but it was fun to try to remember math for a little while and then translate it all to Spanish. We talked with José about baptism and about faith and real intent. He´s been hesitant to commit to baptism although he´s been keeping all of the commitments, but he was able to really see that he was going to have a confirmation from the spirit if baptism is what God really wants for him. But he has to be willing to really follow the answers that God gives him. We really felt the spirit in that lesson, and we were able to take out a baptismal date with José for the 4th of December, so we´re really excited about that.

Well family, I hope everything goes well this week, and we´ll talk next week.
Love, David