Thank You All!

Note from Mom...THANK YOU so much to all of you who joined us in fasting and praying on Patrik's behalf.  I can't properly express my appreciation that so many were so willing to do that for my son.  Blessings have already begun.  Thank you!

So I think I figured out the reason why I feel better today.  With how many people that are fasting and praying for me the Lord is bound to help me out. I am so touched that so many people would do that for me. Thank you to everyone. I am feeling a lot better in every respect.

The doctor said that I don´t have cancer or anything really dangerous so thats a good thing. Actually he said that my whole large intestine is fine except like the last 10 cm, which is really inflammed and so he is assuming that means that my small intestine is very inflammed as well. So I will be taking some expensive pills to get the inflamation down and see if that works. I have a 15 day treatment, which he said that it could heal it all up and I should be good to go, and if not they will have to do some more tests. But the Doctor still doesnt know exactly what I have nor how I got it.

In fact I had an interview with Presidente Fernandez  on Thursday and we talked about that. He wants to send me outside of Arequipa but if I don´t get better he wont be able to do so. So he knows exactly what is going on.

Anyways this week was awesome because we had a baptism! Kevin is the 19 year old nephew of the relief society president. He had been avoiding the missionaries for about 2 years now but finally God hit him upside the head that he needed to be part of this church and he came by himself and told us that he wanted to get baptized. He now has plans to go on a mission and is pretty much excited for everything that the church has to offer.

The same day of his baptism all his family members (members and non members) had a huge misunderstanding over a very small thing and were like fighting verbally and what not but Kevin told them all, "Hey! I´m supposed to be getting baptized in 15 minutes! Why dont you all just kiss and make up and lets go!" Which they did and E. Sulcaray and I had a laugh seeing so many tearstrained faces come to the baptism, especially after the scare.

Lets see what else happened this week. Tuesday we had our Zone Leader Council. There President told me that I was getting changed from here for sure. I don´t know how I feel about that, despite all the problems with the ward and how much time I have been here, E. Sulcaray and I have had a lot of success, and I will be sad to leave so many good converts.

Oh yeah and Tuesday we also had a meeting with all the bishoprics and their ward mission leaders, Presidente Fernandez invited us to be there. I hope that they really take what he said to heart because it was a good meeting and if the members start working good and we keep working good we could DOUBLE OR TRÌPLE

woops hit send on accident!

Anyways we could easily have 2 or 3x the amount of baptisms that we are currently having as a mission.

So yeah that is what is happening in my life I´ll keep you all updated as it goes I hit 21 months this weeek...crazy! And B goes into the MTC wow!!!! Awesome

Elder Patrik Connole