Woot, Woot!

KAREN PASSED HER BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW AND WILL BE BAPTIZED ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you can´t tell i´m kinda excited about it!!!!!

Turns out that the two elders who "interviewed" her really didn´t ever interview her. They just talked with her about who knows what for 3 hours or so. Finally our Zone Leader E. Novoa, just asked her all the questions and gave her a blessing of comfort which they both felt the spirit very strongly. Karen will also talk to the bishop tomorrow to finish off any doubts that she has. Today we are going to go buy her a huge picture of Christ to give her as a gift for her baptism. So yeah we are waaaaayyyy excited for her.

E. Lowe and I went on splits this week one time and he went off to go teach a new family that we´ve been working with and he found the 16 year old kid that hadn´t been with the family all that much, Walter, because he plays basketball for a club team and he is preparing to go to college. But anyways E. Lowe taught he the Restoration and gave a him a BOM and who shows up sunday at church? WALTER! And with his MOM! woot! They were a little late so they missed the sacrament but they loved everything else. Walter is going to practice with the YM and YW for a traditional dance that they will be doing and he is so excited to learn about everything. The rest of the family is a bit standoffish because they are super busy with studying and work and what not. but with little bit of time they´ll come around. The 17 year old kid is really busy because he is in the middle of finals so we have been teaching him in 5 minute lessons. Kinda interesting but its really fun. At first he got mad at us because we kept coming to teach him for the appointments we had with him but then we showed him how we were willing to change our way of teaching so that he could still do both of them. After a bit of explaining he said "well I guess I can listen to you...but I can´t go to church yet because I have classes on sunday..." Stupid university. Grr. But he should be start up a new semester in like 3 weeks are something so he can tweak his schedule a bit so that he can go to church.

Also kind of interesting the mom of the branch primary president has come to church the last two weeks without us even saying anything but we just haven´t been able to find her during the week to teach her! and right after sacrament she books it back home lol. But we got an apt. set up and we will pass by for her I think it should be fairly easy because she also has a son serving a mission in mexico, so just have to get her to feel the spirit by reading the Book Of Mormon. Every time people read the BOM they feel the spirit and 90% of the time they get baptized. When I get home I think I´ll be a little more diligent in trying to get my non-lds friends reading it. Missionaries LOVE references because they already have a built in resource to bring them to church, someone that they trust and what not. For example we started teaching the semi-boyfriend of the branch president´s daughter who unfortunately lives in another area and we just passed him over to the the other elders, but he is going to be baptized without any problems at all. Like we´ve had 2 apts and he already knows that it is all true.

Keep working hard and do what the spirit and the prophets say and I know that the Lord will be directing your paths and molding you to become who he wants you to be, just like I know he is doing with me right now.

Love,

Elder Patrik Connole