(Okay, sorry about the really dumb pun in the title. lol The following two paragraphs, he is commenting on his brother's dislocated shoulder and on his other brother playing flag football. Little does he know that his little brother isn't so little anymore, although he is still as skinny as a toothpick.)
That was pretty gnarly from B there. How in the world do you do that
pulling yourself out of the pool? LAME!
Yes I do laugh at the image of skinny little Derek running around with all
those big guys hahaha but thats totally awesome! Hopefully he can be a
difference-maker on the team.
I love miracles. Like so much. This week we went to pick people up for
church and we came up blank. But then a few minutes before sacrament meeting
ended a former investigator showed up to church. We had left him because he,
well, just started to avoid us haha. We had talked to him about baptism and what
not but he never would accept it. This week when we taught him the same day he
told us "I went to church because I felt like God was calling me. I tried to
resist because it was late already but I couldn´t deny what I felt. I really
want to learn now and I want to get baptized soon." WOOT WOOT! Awesome! Turns
out that his aunt who is a member had been praying and fasting that he would go
to church this week and thus we see that God answers prayers. So yeah he could
be baptized this week if he really gets hit hard with the spirit but more likely
it will be for the 8th.
This week a member family from Quillabamba (its by Cuzco) came to church
and after the meetings they asked us to give the mom a blessing which we gladly
obliged and afterwards we asked them if we could go visit their friends that
they were staying with. After a quick phone call they invited us to pass by. We
headed over there and they presented us to this guy Willy. He was really cool.
We had already contacted his house like 3 times but never found anyone. Anyways
we taught him a little bit about the church and what not but more than anything
we had the spirit with us and he committed to baptism as well. We had been
asking and asking and asking everyone for references and finally the Lord
blessed us for beign persistent.
We started working this week in a new part of our area. Well kinda, about 3
months ago Presidente Fernandez decided to take the 2 missionaries out of the
branch and we were the closest once to the area. But it is far away and so we
hadnt been going over there much but this week we just felt like we needed to do
so. And so we called the branch president and (who is a BYU grad) he took us all
around visiting the part member families and what not. We found a lady who is
the sister of a couple that baptized in April. She has a lot of doubts but we
were able to help her feel the spirit and she commited to baptism for the 8th.
We couldnt go to the are to pick her up for church because its is just way far
away and it starts an hour early in a different chapel but the branch went and
picked her up and told us that she really loved it. So she is progressing very
well.
We are excited that the branch has responded well to our offer of 2 days a
week heading over there. It means a lot more walking for us and less time to eat
dinner but right now it looks like very quickly we could be seeing some results.
AKA BAPTISMS!!! haha. This week for general conference we are going to have a
multi-baptism stakewide. We have at least 5 people that will get baptized at it
and we could have upt to 12. We´ll see but E. Sulcaray and I are trying very
hard to get the missionaries pumped about this activity
Love you all!
Elder Patrik Connole
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