Week
50 – April 28 2014—T3 (Near Matola)
“This week was great, and If everything turns out as planned and with Heavenly Father's help, there should more people that will join the church in the coming weeks”
Hi
guys,
I
am happy to write you again today. That's cool that you went to Elder Heaton's
welcome home and you got to talk with him too. I guess he won’t go by Elder
Heaton anymore, now he is Kaden Heaton. It might be sooooo weird not to be
called Elder when I get home. At the end of my emails I sign them by my first
name, but it's weird to think of myself by my first name haha. Being home will
definitely be a BIG adjustment. But I still have one year until then. Speaking
of one year, it was one year ago today that I gave my farewell talk in sacrament
meeting, can you believe that!? I remember that day clearly it feels like it
was 6 months ago, not one year. One of my friends who came to see me
that day, Marianne, she sent me an email today telling me she was called to
serve in Indianapolis, Indiana, starting in July. It's crazy, I think every
single one of those friends that came that day are either on their missions, or
about to be.
I
had a great week this week! We had a lot of success in teaching lessons and
working with the members. Our investigators are doing well. We now have a
pretty big teaching pool of people. This week will be a challenge making time
to visit all of our existing investigators, plus recent converts, while still
making time to find and teach new families. Antonio and Anita are doing well.
They were having some document problems, but it's looking like things will get
moving again this week. They should be getting married within the next month.
Sergio and Cecilia are progressing well; they came to church together for the
first time yesterday. We found a new family named Jose and Luisa. He came up to
us one day while we were waiting to meet someone. He told us how he has a
family member who is a member of the church and always invites him to visit,
but he never had the time. We went to visit him and his wife a couple times
this week, and they are really interested and willing to follow the gospel.
We'll see how it goes with them this week. We are also teaching Marta, who is
the oldest daughter of Jose, a member (the one we've helped a couple times work
on his house). She doesn't live with the rest of the family; she lives alone
with her two kids. She knew about the church already, but was never really
interested until a couple weeks ago when we did a family night at Jose's house,
and she happened to visit and participate. She is really willing and excited to
follow the gospel, and she should be getting baptized in a couple weeks. We are
also teaching Jose's nephew, David, who lives with them. He is 17 years old and
he too wants to be baptized. This week was great and If
everything turns out as planned and with Heavenly Father's help, there should more people that
will join the church in the coming weeks. I'm so grateful I was given the
chance to stay in my area for at least another six weeks. There is a lot of work to do and I'm really enjoying it. Also, my companion and I get along well, he is a
great missionary. I continue to help him learn English and he is doing well with that also.
My health is fine,
I'm not sick anymore. And when I was feeling a little sick, I didn't stay home,
it wasn't bad enough where I felt like I couldn't go out. The weather here has
been nice. We're still in the transition period between the hot and cold
season, so some days are hot, other days are cooler. But it hasn't rained in a
while, which is nice.
Well, I'm so happy to
have heard from you and hope you have another great week! And Mom, don't worry
I will let you know when I find out when I will be calling you for Mother's
day.
I love you all so
much!!
Josh
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