Humble Dinner

Well the biggest news to report is that the baptism we were supposed to have on Saturday fell through. The parents moved it back 2 or 3 weeks. But the good news is that 2 of our investigators called us and said they wanted to be baptized. We committed them before, but they said they weren't ready. So last night we had the opportunity to baptize and confirm them. It was a great way to start off the month! I'll try to send some pictures of it. Well for the month of August our zone lead the mission. We ended up with 35 baptisms. Our goal was 37 so we fell short of it but we'll make it this month. This month we have a goal of 45. As a reward for leading the mission we get an all day p-day today, and we got to go to Mr. Mac and get a tie.

We're working with one of our investigators who's seen over 30 missionaries. His whole family got baptized except for him. He said he's almost ready, but I'm gonna try to speed that up. We have a few investigators that are pretty close to being baptized I think. They just need to come to church. It's tough. The members here are awesome though. They help us out so much. Every day we get dinner. And they insist that we eat seconds, if we don't they think we don't like the food. So I should be coming back fat. I feel a little bad though. We have a small branch and so a lot of the families feed us 2 or 3 times a month. And they don't really have much, but when we come they feel like they have to cook a more fancy meal than they usually eat. And they don't really have a lot of money. I had a good experience the other day at a dinner appointment. The person didn't have a man home so we couldn't enter. So we ate on the front steps and she sat inside. She gave us a plate of rice with corn and tortillas. And as we sat there she sang us Christmas songs. It was humbling. It made me think about how it was for the Apostles back in the days of Christ. The willingness and desire of this people to give is amazing. Well we got everything here, the good and the bad.

We've run into a few anti-people. One that got excommunicated and tried to give us proof that the Book of Mormon is false. And then we met a less active lady who said "I believe it with all my heart, I just can't live the standards," as she was drinking a beer. I don't get how she can know it's true, and still not live it. It's tough to see. Well that's about my life. Knocking doors, getting rejected, getting yelled at, and talking to people. That's about all that's going on I think.