Óla!!!

Óla!!!

Well time really does fly out here in the mission. I am already half way through my second transfer, only three more weeks left in this transfer and we have a lot of work to do. This past week was a pretty darn good week. I finally got the package this past Tuesday, so thanks for that! I am definitely enjoying the snacks. I´m not sure if I´ll be transfered or not, but right now we´re worrying about all of our investigators who have baptism dates!! This week has been fairly successful in that regard. 

So these past couple of weeks, we have been searching for new people to teach. I think right now we only have 2 investigators left over from last transfer and both of them are ready to be baptized, N and M. Unfortunately, they both still haven´t committed to a date. We actually went a whole week without talking to N... she tends to do that a lot. We´ll have a couple really good lessons with her and then she will disappear for days at a time. It´s kind of frustrating. She´s been doing really good and has been talking to her dad in France. We´ve been thinking a lot about how we can help her and I think we have a plan that will work. She was Catholic and is really excited to be baptized. We haven´t run into many Catholics lately, mostly because we´ve been working a lot with member references. So last week, we started teaching the brother of a member. His name is E and he is doing really good. He started reading the Book of Mormon right from our first visit and says he just wants to keep reading. So we went to pass him one day and he wasn´t there, but his younger brother and sister were both there so we talked to them. Their names are H and L and apparently, E had been talking to them about the Restoration!! So we talked to them quickly and then marked a day to return. When we came back, we talked to all three and they have all been reading and praying and all have a testimony of the Book of Mormon already. So we marked a date at the end of the month and their brother has been talking to them and helping them so they are going really strong. The Book of Mormon is the key!!!

The other investigator that we´ve been having a lot of success with is our one-legged one, M. This is a different M but he´s doing amazing!! This man has the strongest desire out of anyone I have talked to since being here. So he had a problem with smoking, as of last Sunday he had been smoking about 6-7 cigarrettes per day. So we talked to him about the Word of Wisdom and set up a plan to quit. Everyday he cut back one more cigarrette until yesterday, the last time we talked to him he hadn´t smoked any. He´s also quit buying them which is really key. He sometimes doesn´t understand very well and has troubles reading because of his eyes but he still reads and prays everyday and has improved so much! Someone is helping him out too because yesterday when we went to go get him for church, he somehow found a wheelchair!! This has been our biggest concern because he can´t walk very far at all. But the problem has been solved, he came to church and has a baptism date! 

I don´t know what else to really write about this week. Things are really starting to pick up and we´ve got quite a few people who are really progressing. The best thing is, all of our investigators who are progressing have been reading the Book of Mormon and have prayed about it. That was one of the biggest challenges we faced last transfer. We´ve got a lot of work to do but with the Lord´s help, we should have some baptism days coming up in the next few weeks. Not much else is new here. It´s getting hotter every day but it still cools down at night. Love you all!