March 7, 2011

Hey fam!

Wow the weeks just fly by. I really do feel like all I do is write to

you haha. We are having a lot of success here in the area. This

last week we had a council meeting with Presidente Manning and all the

other zone leaders in the mission. Those are always really fun

meetings. We talk about all sorts of stuff thats very important for

the mission. We got there at 8 and left at about 4 or 5 in the

afternoon. It's a long time but they fed us pizza haha!! It was the

last time that my companion will be in one of these meetings. He is

going home in three weeks. He's the best ever, really. I'm not sure that

you could find a better missionary anywhere. It has been a real

blessing to be his companion.

This week was a bummer on the baptism side. Hermanito Braulio didn't

make it. He still has a lot of doubt about very key things in the

church and about some of the commandments. So just keep him in your

prayers and some time in the future he should make it.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE! We have two baptisms this week! Jose Maria and

Claudia. They are both young kids but they are really excited to get

baptized. Jose maria has had a really big change of heart. He´s

fourteen and if you think its hard to be fourteen in the states its

nothing compared to here. When we were teaching his Aunt silvia (our

last baptizm) he interrupted and didn't listen, in reality he was

annoying. But one day before we got there to teach Silvia about a week

before her baptism, he told us that he wanted to get baptized. He was

talking to his grandma and I don't know what she told him but he has

changed a ton! Since that day he is always there and gives us his full

undivided attention. He is going to early morning seminary everyday at

6 in the morning. He is a very different kid. Claudia's mom is a less

active member that has been stuggling. We live with her aunt and

uncle and they help her a lot.

We have a marriage that we are trying to

get to happen for the 26th of this month. We are trying to do an

activity with the relief society to help raise money for them. I have

learned something, it's better and means more to them when they pay for

it. And the members get to help and they make more friends and

everything works out better. The lord is blessing us with tons of

success in the zone and in our area. We had a companionship in our

zone with 21 lessons to an investigator with a member present. And

they still had a bunch of other lessons too!

Whoa! another cousin to get to know! That's like eight new cousins I

need to get to know when I get home! I'm the luckiest kid ever!

Congrats Lindsay and Austin! And C2 haha. Mom your K2 and He is C2

cool! Sorry that fruity and Grandma are sick! That's not allowed and

you need to get better! I hope everything goes well. I'm stoked about

all the missionary stuff that's happening back home! All the people

that are leaving and deciding to serve the Lord! The best decision

that you will ever make.

Thanks for everything fam! Good luck with your talks! Some of my

favorite scriptures about prayer are Alma 37:37 and 3 Nephi 18

Love you fam!

February 28, 2011

Wow family!

Sounds like great things are happening back home! A baptism of

a family in the ward! Awesome! My companion and I had a really good

week! We are working hard with several people and they are all

excited. We have people that are looking for new jobs to be able to go

to church, people that really don't have any support from their family,

others that need to get married, others that are here illegally and

need to do a whole bunch of paperwork to be able to be legal before

they can be baptized. My point is, that the gospel compels people to do

lots of hard things to get baptized. They really change their lives to

be able to live according to the gospel of the lord. This week we have

a brother named Braulio who is getting baptized on Saturday. He needs

help! Please pray for him to make it. All he has to do is decide and he

will get baptized.

I cant believe that Nat is heading to the MTC today! (Natalee actually left last week!)
Awesome! And Ben jammin! Awesome! It's the best decision that you will ever make!

Sounds like you have some awesome missionaries in the ward! Preach my

Gospel teaches us to commit people to baptize not any later than the

second lesson. It's cool! It's the best feeling in the world to find

someone that accepts the gospel so fast and then strives to live it.

Its a wonderful feeling!

So this week we were teaching a 14 year old kid named Jose Maria. I

think I told you about him last week. He has a date for the 12th of

March. Well, we went to go teach him on Friday night and his mom was

there too! His grandma is a recent convert and also his Aunt Silvia.
We taught his mom and she was all excited and everything

too. She said that she had decided to join a church and was looking

for one, and what a coincidence! We came and taught her that very day!

We taught her the restoration and invited her to be baptized, she

accepted! The lord works in mysterious ways. One thing that I do not

believe in is coincidences. God makes the smallest things happen so

that someone can come in contact with the gospel.

Whoa! Sarah is going to get baptized the day B comes home!!!!!! I'm not

sure that I can think of a better homecoming! That's an awesome story!

I'll be praying for her! So she has been listening to the missionaries

and stuff while B has been gone. That's awesome!

Oh and tell Josue! (joshie) Good luck for me! and good luck to Lindsey

and Austin!

Elder B
I love you a ton fam!