Progress

Hey all

so this week we had 3 investigators and half of a way inactiv family come to stake conference. It was a very very good stake conference so the 2 families and a couple others (who were practicing with the stake choir and yet didn´t show! ARGGHHH!!) really missed out. The whole stake presidency and President Fernandez spoke. President gave an excellent talk on how there are so many things that are just simply distracting young men from going on a mission that they are having trouble gettign them out. He talked a lot about how the mission is meant to learn how to follow the spirit and I can testify to that.
Just being here and trying to figure out what the Lord´s will for me and for all his sons and daughters here is tough work but it is so worth it.

We´ve been working with a 10 year old kid and we just got permission to baptize him so it should be this week or the next. He is a reallly smart kid but I think he has like adhd or something because he can´t sit still for 2 seconds. But he asks very profound questions and really understands the concepts well when we can actually get through to him. But he has been waiting 2 years to get baptized so now he is so excited that he will be able to do it.

Another guy that came to church is Jan Carlos. His parents are our landlords and he actually lives one floor below us. Way cool guy and he loved the stake conference and said he is for sure going again next week and will try to talk his family into going as well. We have him booked to get baptized the 24th and tonight we are going to share the video "together forever" with all of the fam.

We went out with our Ward Mission Leader to go visit some people (non of whom were home of course) and as we were returning to his house the whole neighborhood was out on the rooftops and in the street yelling something. Paul (the WML) all of sudden just tells us to turn around and walk away. I had no idea what was happening, but apparently Paul´s next door neighbor was in the process of getting robbed in broad daylight, but got caught mid robbery and some how escaped. I guess this has been a fairly common occurence in our area which might explain why people are so hesitant to open their door to us.

This last week we attempted to make an effort to contact more than we usually do but what really ended up happening was that the Lord blessed us with more lessons than contacts (36-34) haha.

We have 2 couples that we are also teaching now where either the husband or the wife is a member but they aren´t married. One of these couples wants to get married and baptized asap but can´t get everything together to get married. The other couple could get married at any moment but doesn´t want to get married until March for some reason. (they say its so they can invite all the family but we sense that this is just the tip of the iceberg) They are really really good people but they just lack a sense of urgency. Actually thats quite common in latino culture so why am I so confuzzled? Bah. And both couples arent coming to church regurarly either becuase of work. But I guess will just keep working with em for a bit longer so that they can live the restored gospel even better in their lives.

Love ya

Elder Patrik Connole