Spreading the Gospel with French Toast

I bought 1 shirt, but its not that great of a shirt...so I only bought 1 haha, its fine and works but its just not the same as the states lol. And it was a little bit more expensive than I was thinking.

Ok so this week was quite interesting. This week ended transfers so we had a few changes in the zone, One elder, Elder Fox, had been with me in both zones the whole time that I´ve been zone leader. He went to my first area in Moquegua as ZL, so its gonna be weird not having him. They flip-flopped a couple elders in the zone as well which was weird but oh well, whatcha gonna do?

Anyways this week we had 6 people (actually 9 if you coun the 7, 6 and 3 year old) at the sacrament meeting and they all loved it. They were 3 families, well kinda, all three families came without the dad because the dad works out of town, Ilo or in USA. But they all loved it. One family was very special in particular because we met the 16 year old son (Elmer) as a reference from a new convert, Cristopher. Cristopher actually brought Elmer to sacrament meeting last week and this week we committed him to baptism for the 6th (this sat!) and he loved the idea so much that he started talking it up to a couple friends and his mom. When we finally met the mom on saturday we had an awesome lesson where we taught them about the plan of salvation. The spirit was there so strongly and when we asked Elmer´s mom, what she felt she should do, the Holy Ghost revealed to her the truth of this to her and she told us she wanted to get baptized with her son! She came to church on time the next day with her sons (the other one is 6) and a friend as well. The only problem is that we think that she is not married...and her husband works in the states and only comes every 8 months...so I guess we´ll see.

And we had a ward activity on friday. We did a Dessert Festival and who knew that Elder Connole´s AMAZING French Toast would be such a hit?? Haha everyone loved it and they all asked me for the recipe haha. We had about 15 investigators there and they all really liked it, so hopefully we will see some results of this activity.

We almost had 2 baptisms this week but they dad and mom had a fight and he went off to drink...yeah not good. We worked so hard to try to help them realize the importance of repentance and forgiveness and we tried dang hard to save the baptism too. To the point that we asked the president if we could stay up late and visit them with the bishop. We were there with them from 10:00 until midnight just trying to help them out. They are really cool still but they gotta work some things out first I guess. Its so frustrating sometimes to see people only want to do it their way, and not the Lord´s way, but thats why we fortify their faith.

Love ya

Elder Patrik Connole