3/5/2012

Well, its hard to believe that in 4 months I´ll be back with you guys
again. The past year and 8 months have passed pretty fast, but still,
it´s been a long time since I´ve seen you guys, and I miss you. I´m
still not super trunky, but I am starting to miss you guys a little
more.

This week was pretty successful and we had some hang ups too. On
Saturday, our mission leader wanted to take us out to contact some
people in his family, but we didn´t realy know what he had in mind.
He´s a new member, and doen´t really understand missionary work really
well. He´s super excited to help us, but he really doesn't know how...
At 2pm, he loaded us in his green bug with his wife and grandma, and
drove us over an hour and a half into the middle of nowhere where his
mom and dad live on a farm. He wanted us to share a message with the
family, and give his mom a blessing, who has a sleep disorder. The
whole time we were crammed into that little slug bug, bottoming out on
rocks on the dirt road, I just kept thinking, "How on earth are these
people going to come to church every sunday and be baptised?" It seemed
nearly an impossible feat,but the people liked the message, and said
they wanted to visit the church when they can. Our mission leader said
that maybe he could wake up at 5 and drive an hour and a half to pick
them up, so that they could catch a bus at 8 to get to church at 9.
Then he´d have to drive them all the way back after church. After
giving the message, we drove back home, and got back at 6:30. Our
whole day was spent on that one message, and we didn´t get around to
inviting half our investigators to come to church.

We still did have some investigators at church though. A 14 year old
girl, Mislene, went to church for the second time on Sunday. Her whole
family wants to be baptised now,but her mom needs to get married first,
and her brothers will need to go to church 8 times before the President
will let them be baptised. We´ll see what happens this week.

but yeah... the work is going great. I´m liking Elder Ortega. He´s
23 years old and he´s always super happy, and we get along well.
I´ll send pictures when I can. It´s a little hard in this lan house.
Sorry if my emails get monotanous sometimes. If you want to know more
details about something, send me some questions. Missionaries love
when people ask questions.

The Church is true, and I love you guys a lot.
Love, Elder Forsyth