March 28, 2011

Hola familia, My week was pretty great and pretty rough but in all its all good. I'm alive ha ha, but we had some great experiences with investigators. We had been praying that we could find people that need the gospel. We had a mom and her daughter from a area that is closed come to our church because she wanted to be baptized. So we got permission from the president to leave our area to go and teach them. We"re also teaching this 22 year old, and the day we were going to ask him if he would be baptized, just before we asked, he said, "now what do I have to do to get baptized?" So we talked to him and two others. They are going to be baptized on the 16th of April. This is very cool! Our prayers were definitely answered. Somehow I got Strep with other problems. I took amoxicillan and then yesterday it was way cold at night. With the humidity, its terribly cold and it made me way sick and sore. I ended up getting a fever. It's not that bad now. They say I might have "dengue", but if the pain in my body gets worse, I will find out. Another way cool story we had, is about this investigator who is Baptist. When we teach him and share scriptures he wants to read the whole chapter before believing us ha ha. We taught him about Joseph Smith and it felt way powerful. We asked him if he would pray, and he said yes. We asked when,and then he said "when I finish the whole Book of Mormon" ha ha. But he said only a week maximum. Holy cow, he works almost all day too. It was way cool to hear that. But things are going great. We're finding people who are prepared for the gospel, and people who are sincere. I'm excited for Conference. I'm sure this year it will mean a lot. It will be in spanish so it will be legit. We had a conference with the president and he talked about prophesies, and the problems in Japan, and how Joseph Smith recieved revelation about this. I also realized that even when you think you're doing awesome, you can also get a ton better! There is always room for improvement everywhere. But you can only find that out if you stay humble. If' your're not humble, you won't improve. I hope that everything is good for you guys, and that you have no problems. I love you so much and love hearing from you! I cant wait to hear from you next week! love, Elder Christoffersen