November 28, 2011

Hola familia. Things this week went pretty good. We had some success and things look good for this transfer. We are working hard and seem to be finding awesome investigators that are willing to listen. I just hope that they will progress. But we will keep moving forward and working hard. Today was a great day for soccer. I had 3 goals. Two with my head and 1 that I kicked in. It was really fun. When I get done it feels like I just jumped out of a swimming pool. It's so humid, but it's pretty legit. But it's always nice to take a motorcyle taxi after. We have been working with some less actives to try and activate them and we are helping the Cespedes family. The dad and the daughters aren't members so the two daughters want to be baptized and I'm sure the dad will too when he gets back from the safra (3 months during December thru Febuary and sometimes March and April where they go and cut these coconuts that have almonds in them. They put them in bags and carry them) But the daughters are excited to be baptized and they will be baptized the 10th of December. Then Hermana Ninoska has a 10 year old son she adopted and he willl be baptized the tenth too. I am pretty excited and I am sure it will go really well. But we have a good amount of investigators and we seem to be teaching more fathers which is way good. We're gonna try to work hard to get them to go to church so we can put a date with them and they can be baptised too. We are teaching the dad of Eddy that we baptized in August. The dad wants to change his life around. He has a drinking problem and I'm pretty sure that the last time we taught him he was drunk. He just kept trying to tell us jokes. But who knows. We hope he learned something. But we taught him last night too. This time he wasn't drunk and he seemed pretty sad. He says he will pray about Joseph Smith and the spirit was so strong. We promised him a lot of blessings, and he got watery eyed. I really hope things go well with him. I am glad I feel good contacting now and I don't really get scared to talk to people anymore.  I realized I can talk for a long time with people that I don't know and I actually enjoy it quite a bit. It's crazy how God can shape you in his hands if you let Him. I have gotten way strong in areas that I have never had strengths. I will never stop trying to become a missionary, because there is always room to improve and there will always be more room to improve. I gave a talk in church yesterday then taught with the second counselor of the branch in Sunday school. Then I taught preisthood class haha. It was pretty awesome. But I felt good about my talk. I prepared a 15 minute talk in 20 minutes and because we teach so much we have been blessed with the gift to teach. It feels like the holy ghost guides almost all of my words. It's pretty crazy. I love you guys so much. Do something awesome this week to show others you care.  Love, Elder Christoffersen