Happy Independence Day!

hey all :)

This week was pretty stressful, but I´m pulling through..hahaha...

Flavia told us this week that she doesn´t want to talk to us anymore. We don´t know what happened yet, or why she changed her mind. We´re letting her cool off for a little while first. She had everything ready to be baptised. We even did the interview, but then she rejected everything. Usually when people reject us, it´s because they don´t understand something, or they have a problem with the commandments. I think she feels embarrased to be seen with us, and doesn´t want to leave her party lifestyle. :(

We had another baptism marked for this Sunday of a 12 year old girl, Bia. She´s great, and a lot of fun to talk to, but she also got cold feet the Saturday before the baptism. She still likes talking to us, and still went to church this sunday. We just need to discover her problem. I think it lies with the parents. We´ll talk to them this week.

We worked like crazy this week though! We taught 47 lessons, whereas the mission goal is 25. I couldn´t believe it. We had 10 people at church, but all of them were young women and primary kids. We need to find more men to help out this branch. The problem is that every man has 5 kids, and is addicted to something, and isn´t married, so with every man we find, we only baptise his kids.... it's a little retarded, but we´ll keep working.

Elder Galvez baptised a man this week in the ward. It took 5 tries, and the man amost drowned, and it scared all the investigators who were there, but he finally got it. Our District Leader wants to practice performing baptisms this weeek to help out Elder Galvez. I don´t know if that's sacreligous, but we´ll do it without saying the prayer first I think... maybe I´ll get to go swimming in the baptismal font for district meeting... :P I´m kidding, but who knows....

I´m glad to hear that everyone is doing well at home. I love you guys, and be safe with the fireworks. Happy 4th!

Love, Elder Forsyth