08/01/2011

Hola familia, This week was pretty crazy but we had some good things too. We found someone who wanted to be a missionary for our church when she was younger but her dad wouldn't let her get baptized. She is now a mother and has two children and just got married so her familia could progress. It would be awesome to help them out, but we haven't been able to find her in her home yet. We also found this guy who is twenty one years old and he is dating the district president's daughter. He has already been attending church and came to our branch this week with his girlfriend. It was pretty cool. But one thing that happened that was amazing is the girl we are teaching that set her date to get married. She is 30 and we talked to our zone leaders about how we could help. They said we had to turn in the papers earlier and so we felt pretty bad. We called and told her she had to turn in the papers a lot earlier. So that night we came over to teach them and her boyfriend said to us "why didn't you call?" We told him we did and then he told us they just got married ha ha. It was crazy but we were way happy and so were they. They talked things out with the government and worked things out in the last day. It was pretty crazy. But what is sad is that her babies were sick so she couldn't go to church. So she is going to have to go to church for the next two weeks in a row to be baptized. We won't lose hope that she will be baptized. We are going to work hard this week if all goes well and hope to get everything going good again. But I'm not gonna lie. It's pretty rough trying to tell your comp, who has a lot more time in his mission, that he should improve in some areas. But the harder things I have to do sure make me a lot stronger. That's the hard thing about how things work in life ha ha. But I'll keep going forward. Well the crazy part this week is on WednesdayI found out that I have a parasite in me. That's exciting ha ha. But I'm on antibiotics right now and the doctor said it will kill it off. I just can't wait to be able to eat normally again! I am starting to dislike soup with a passion without fats. But it's all good ha ha. Well it's still very warm here and I'm sure things will be back to normal again really soon. Thanks so much for your love and prayers. Don't forget that with the Spirit everything is better. Elder CHristoffersen