Thanks for
your emails this week. I'm glad that you and mom took Jacob for a short trip
down to Bryce for his first time. I remember our trip to Bryce Canyon
very clearly…to start, we got a speeding ticket, our car got stuck in the
sticky mud, we had to get a tow truck to get the car out, what else… oh
yes, we went horseback riding but it started to snow and we were not prepared for winter weather. Dad went through some trouble during that trip, but he always made
me feel that we were having fun and so we had fun. It doesn't feel like it was so long ago, but
it was 10 years ago, crazy huh? It was
so much fun; I’ll never forget the first time I went to Bryce Canyon with dad.
So I'm
guessing the weather has been nice over there. It’s been heating up over here.
We're getting into the hot season, where December and January are the hottest
months. A couple days this week it was super hot. But it also rained pretty hard one day this
week and we got pretty soaked, but it felt good. The nice thing is that in our
area the roads don’t get as muddy and the roads are still good to walk on, they
don't turn into rivers like they did in T3 when it rained a lot, so it's not
too bad.
This week was
pretty successful. We found ten new families
this week and taught a few lessons; we also found several good contacts, hopefully many of them will be prepared to hear and accept the Gospel in their
lives at this time
Since we are
opening up our area, we are getting to know it better each day. There are a lot
of people and houses in our area and a lot of potential to find new families to
teach. We are also getting to know the members in our branch that live in our
area. All of them are very nice too, this branch has good members. The branch
is small, but it has members that are strong in the faith. We will encourage
them to help us find new people to teach as well as invite them to come with us
when we teach new people so they can get to know our investigators. As I mentioned before, since our area used to
be part of a larger area until it was divided right before I got here, some portions of our new area used to be worked
by other missionaries, there were a few
existing investigator families and we're helping them prepare their documents
for marriage. Pereira and Sara are very close on finalizing their documents to
get married on the 15th. The other family is Tomas and Ana. They had been investigators
in the past, but their progress stopped during the last 3 months because Tomas
left town for work. He is a commercial fisherman and went out on a boat for 3
months off the northern coast of the country. But now he's back and won't go fishing
again until next year. So we're working with them, and they wil start coming to
church again and continue reading the Book of Mormon and working on their
marriage documents. Both he and his wife are super nice people. Everyone here
is so nice. It seems that many people here
are very receptive to our message, and that is very encouraging and very
exciting.
I get along
very well with my companion Elder Mendes, he is a very good missionary; we
share our experiences and we both contribute to our success, so we've been
working together pretty well. It's been
interesting to hear him talk about his country and how things are in Cabo
Verde; he says it is very nice place.
Anyway,
something exciting is happening today.
We (All the missionaries in Beira area) had a special meeting with Elder
Clayton of the Presidency of the Seventy and Elder Ellis of the Seventy and a
member of the presidency of the Africa southeast area. It was a two hour meeting
where they and their wives spoke to us, along with President and Sister Kretly.
They taught a lot of great things. The messages were very inspiring, I felt the
Spirit of God very strongly during that meeting.
In about 2
hours they will have a devotional for all the members and investigators. And
we're going to be there too, so after I'm done doing internet here, we'll be
heading back to the Beira chapel to attend that devotional. I'll tell you more
about it next week. It's been a cool day so far though.
I'm doing
well and I’m enjoying the work here. I hope you all have a great week.
I love you!!
Josh
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