Six Months

We went to the temple with some of our investigators this week. They felt the Spirit so it was good. Yesterday we had 3 of the 4 people interviewed and they passed to be baptized. So we're planning on having our 4th one tomorrow. What else... For Thanksgiving we're going to do nothing. I'm going to play in some Turkeybowls and we might go to some houses for dinner if we get invited. Tonight we're going to a members home for Pie Night. They make a lot of pies the night before and eat them because they're to full to eat after Thanksgiving. So it should be fun. I can't really think of much that's gone on this week. We're tr;ying to go to Temple Square for Friday night. So that we can go to the first night of the lights. It seems like we do the same thing everyday. Teach, eat and you know. Well I bought "Joseph: A Nashville Tribute to Joseph Smith." So I'm excited to listen to that. I'm getting ready for transfers on the 2nd. I've already been out for 6 months. CRAZY.

Snow

Things here are pretty much the same. We're planning to have a baptism in a few weeks. On the 28th. We for sure have 3 people being baptized that day, and we're planning on adding another 1 or 2. So it should be a good day when it comes. I can't really think of much to update y'all on. Nothing too much has changed.

Man it's cold. Probably a lot warmer in Houston than here. We had a big snow storm on Saturday and that was not fun to walk in. But anyways... the Spanish is coming along pretty well. I can't wait till I don't have to try at it though. Some day. We have dinner with the Americans on Mondays and Tuesdays so it's pretty fun. I can actually communicate well with them so it's a nice change. I can't really think of anything that I can say or any stories. But next week I'll have more to write about. Or When things happen I'll write them down so I don't forget them since I can't think of them right now. Well this Friday we have interviews with the mission president. Yup.

Enjoy the pictures...Well the first picture is from Saturday. We walked from 6000 West to 7400 west. It was a very long and cold walk. Which leads to picture number 2. I think I'm going to buy one of these hats so I don't die in the winter. They're from a stake multi-cultural activity we had. The guy served his mission in Russia so we tried on some of his hats. And the third picture is just us messing around.

21 Day Promise

Well things here are going pretty well. Like I said the spanish is getting easier. I still have to focus while listening to it, but I can understand a lot. We have some pretty solid investigators right now. The one that has been coming for like a month, who I think I mentioned last time, we put her on date for the 21st along with her daughter and son. And then we have another family that is living with her cousin or uncle who attends the English ward. We put her daughter and son and her on date for the 28th. So we're hoping to have some baptisms coming up pretty soon. There's potential for 6 or 7 baptisms. Then another one of our investigators, Alejandro, recognizes the blessings of the priesthood and that come from us teaching him. But he hasn't accepted a baptismal date. So last night I committed him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. Once he does this we'll be able to get him on date. I'm pretty excited about that. We had 9 people at church last week, and taught 24 lessons. I'm trying to push and get 30 lessons in a week.

I'm trying the 21 day promise out too. Elder M. Russel Ballard and Robert E. Wells gave to all the people living inside of the boundaries of the Salt Lake City mission. You make a list of your friends or family that are less active or non-members. And after you make that list you pray for them every morning and everynight for 21 days straight. And they promised that at least one person on the list would accept missionaries into their house and take the lessons. So I'm excited to see how that works.

Well the next transfers are on December 2nd. I'm kind of worried about Thanksgiving. Because I don't want to get fat. So we'll have to see how I do with that. Oh and we went to the High Councilmans house for lunch on Sunday and watched "An Unlikely Mormon." It's Glen Beck's conversion story. Y'all should probably watch it. It's pretty good.

Time Is Flying By

The time is going by really fast. I already almost have 6 months in the mission. It doesn't seem like it's been that long. My Spanish is improving a lot. I can understand most of what is being said. And I'm still working on speaking. But it's getting easier. So I'm excited for that. I'm doing pretty good. I don't know I'm still me. But man, this weekend we had a baptism of this lady. She was so prepared from the first visit. We left her at church because we thought she left, but she just went to change her baby. She still came again the next week. I probably told y'all that before. But I could have performed my first baptism, but I figured it would be better for someone in the ward to do it. We change every 6 weeks but the ward members stay and they'll be the ones that keep them active.

There's another investigator that we added last night. She's been coming to church for the past 3 weeks, but we've never been able to get her address. We finally got it on Sunday and visited her yesterday. We're planning on committing her to be baptized on the 14th. She seems like a golden investigator too. We're still working on the family of 6. We had a Zone Conference on Thursday and it was so good. The Spirit was so strong during the whole time. The ward that did the lunch for us did an amazing job. They had some pumpkins carved and lit up (see below). But anyways after lunch we always sing to the people who prepared the lunch. And the Spirit continued during this. We sang "Armies of Helaman" and I had to hold back the tears. All the ladies we're crying and even the Stake/Branch President was tearing up. He was a big polynesian guy. He shared us a story about his nephew who is one of the top ranked high school football players. But after we sang that we sang "Called to Serve."

For Halloween we couldn't really go out at night so we had a Zone activity and had a chance to watch the movie. I told everyone we should watch the Hannah Montanna Movie. Pretty much all of them were making fun of me and saying that it would be a stupid movie. But 2 or 3 said they would and they rented and brought it to the activity. During the movie everyone was into it and liked it by the end. So it was funny. I think that's about all that's going on with me.