1/27/09

Hello World!
Another week gone by. Its already been a month since Christmas. Pretty crazy. We tried to work good and hard this week. Some days it felt like nothing went right, and then all of a sudden we would teach a good lesson and get back on track. We found a few people who seem really interested in the message, so thats good. As for Sergio and Lucy. We had some great success, but some drawbacks too.

We taught them the other day, about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was actually the most ive taught in a lesson. I had to teach the part about Baptism, and our plan was to commit Sergio to be baptized, and change the date of his wifes baptism to his date, so that they could be baptized together. Sergio asked a few questions about the baptism, and so did Lucy, when all of a sudden Lucy said she didnt want to be baptized anymore. Right after, Sergio said that he still wanted to be baptized even though he knows that changing will be hard. We think that Lucy doesnt want to get baptized because of her family, so we are planning a lesson to see if we cant get her to see the importance of it.

Our area is HUGE. It should be 2 areas, but there are only me and my companion here. Yesterday, after church, we drove around with the Fauntos, a family, to find some colonies that we have Heard of,but that we didnt really know existed. I sat in the middle seat squooshed ( I think thats how its spelled) between everyone. It gets better though. We put in an Elton John CD, and listened to it the whole time. I just sat back and smiled, thinking, I'm in the middle of mexico, squooshed between a bunch of Mexicans, listening to Elton John. What can get better than this?

Yesterday, I gave another talk in Church. This one was 13 minutes long. Its pretty crazy to think that I can talk for that long in Spanish. Ok so i have to write down every Word, but still. I talked about how the members have a responsibility just as much as us, to do missionary work. I also told them that the opportunities they will have, wont necesarily be with nonmembers. In reality they are going to have many more chances to help reactivate less active members. I think it went over well.

With the Fuantos, who arent members because the husband cant get divorced with his previous wife (its complicated), we are studying the bible, and teaching them how to use the Book of Mormon, to help them enhance their studies. I think we are all learning a lot from it.

Thats pretty much it. We are pushing a long, trying to get are investigators to church, which is still the biggest struggle. Hopefully we will see the fruits of our labor soon.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Kimmy, keep up the good writing.

I love you all, have a great week!

Con amor, Elder Turley