Sept 27, 2011

Hola familia, Things went pretty good this week. We didn't get to write yesterday because President came to do a conference and interviews with us. It was really good. He did a good job and he acts more like a friend when he came out here to Riberalta. Another zone which is on the border with Brazil came and they are about 45 minutes from where we are and we got to play soccer with them and president. We beat them in soccer and I had one of the 5 goals, haha . After we we went to the Central park we all had an ice cream and then we went to eat pizza as a zone. Now we are on our P-day. President doesn't come here much, so when he does it's a whole day and he does an activity with us too. I got sick Sunday but I was very happy that it just lasted for a day. I was scared that it was gonna last for a week or so, but President gave me a blessing and things went good after that and I didnt feel too sick. I downed half my lunch yesterday and a slice of pizza in the night, so I'll get back to normal again. Well now about how things are going with the real work. Things are looking good for the Sanchez kids. We had to move thier fecha back a week so they can get their time in church. So they should be baptized the 15th of October and our other family went to church too. The sad thing is that they didnt go with the dad. But something awesome is that the mom prayed about Joseph Smith and told us she believes he was a Prophet. But I felt pretty bad because before church started I was way frustrated because we saved seats for our investigators because it was district conference. No one showed up on time and I was scared that they didn't come. Only the mom and one daughter came in the Sanchez family. But I couldn't take being sick any longer, so I had to leave a little early. We saw that the other family came so that made us way happy. I realized I need to be more patient and put my faith more in the Lord. Our next lesson we will teach them all about baptism and hope they will accept it too. This week was pretty hot but Friday it rained way hard. Then Saturday was cloudy so that was pretty nice. The new family that went to church said she is gonna go look for a monkey so we can eat eat it haha wooooooooooohoooooooo. That's gonna be great haha. Things are going great and we are working hard. I am learning a ton. Cambio is next week so I hope I don't get changed out of my area for one or two more transfers. It would be great for me even though its way hot here. They say we're gonna start geting into the rainy season where it rains like we've never seen in Beni. But I wish you all an awesome week. Be greatful for the Church and the organization that we have in the U.S.A. It's not very well organized here and its hard to grow sometimes that way. But this work will go forth and things will go on. No one and no thing can stop the work of the Lord. I wish you guys an awesome week. Love, Elder Christoffersen