well how is everyone doing this week?! i am sure you are all doing great during this holiday season! i cant believe christmas is basically here already haah. it was april jsut a couple weeks ago!! but everything here is going good. it could be better but at least it is good haah. i guess i will tell you a little bit about my investigators right now!!
well this week we are going to have 2 baptisms for sure!!!! maybe more. we cant teach the other two though. one is never home and i think the other is avoiding us ha. thats always awesome! but we are teaching elza. she will be baptized this sunday. she is probably about mid 50s and she is the most perfect investigator in the world! she went to church two times without being taught. she liked it so much she told us she was going to start going to church there every week. she talks a lot though so it is difficult to teach her. but when we gave the baptismal invite she was like "yes! i want to follow christ. what clothes do i need for the baptism?!!" haha pretty awesoem!! she said she will stop drinking coffee and doesnt have a problem with it. she already knew it was bad for her. but she always starts bearing her testimony. we will bear our testimony at the end and she will always say. i know it is true too! and started saying what she knows that is true. we were pretty lucky!!
also rafaela will be baptized this sunday. she is twelve years old. she is pretty awesome. their family is really awesome!! her dad wants to be baptized really bad but he works at a farmers market on sunday. he cant skip out on it either! but they all stopped drinking coffee the day we taught the word of wisdom! the whole family is reading a chapter a day together and then taking turns praying about it! that is so awesome! there is no way they couldnt gain a testimony this way ha. the mom is so so right now. but she cant go to church either cuz or the farmers market. they are trying to get out of it though. they just need to sell their car and then they will be able to stop. so hopefully it happens like today!!!
we are also teaching lucas and chico. lucas is 13 years old and is always working!!! he is never home!!! so it is hard to teach him. his aunt is a member. and he accepted baptism but we cant teach him cuz he is never home. and chico has a friend that is a member. chico accepted baptism but now he is avoiding us. he doesnt understand why we want to talk to him so much! also i know he has a problem with smoking and with drugs. so i dont think he would be baptized this sunday anyways. but we need to find more people to teach so we can start next transfer off good!!
last night we had a meeting with the stake president and all the missionaries in my district. this saturday is the christmas devotional. the catholic church put this devotional as one of the christmas highlights of the city. so the mayor and everyone will be here. also, there will be tons of investigators!!! tons!!! and we are going to give everyone that is interested, a dvd. they just have to write their name and address and the missionaries will deliver the dvd!!! it is going to help so much!!! i am pretty excited!! also it was pretty good to see some other missionaries again. it is hard not to talk about IF when tyson is there but it was really fun last night haha. so this last pday we played basketball agian. my team won but elder paillo has been telling everyone that i am terrible at basketball and he needs to teach me. haha i am like ok whatever. ha its not that much fun playing with people like that. so we will see if we play today. on saturday, i had the english class. not a single soul showed up!! not one haha. so i think we are going to stop offering it now haha. we had a meeting with the bishop also. he told us somethin pretty cool. so you know the scripture about faith can move mountains. well there is also faith without works is dead. he said that he thinks that the scripture about faith can move mountains means that if we have faith that we can move a mountain, we will go to the top and start chipping away!! it is pretty smart. i think we could still just throw the entire mountain into the sea but if we have faith we need to just go and do it. not wait around!! pretty deepp huh!? afterwards, one of elder paillos baptisms had a birthday. they had a fooseball table there!! i played a quick game!!! it was pretty fun. i pulled out a victory against elder paillo and another guy with one hand haha. pretty fun to play agian. you guys should send ours down haah.
well that was pretty much my week!! i got a letter from jay dee yesterday. he sounds like he is doing pretty good! also i was wondering how bonneville did in their games. and if byu has a bowl game or not. this week is the last week of the transfer!!!! woohoo!! so i will let you know of any changes next week!
Tell tyler and grandma long happy birthday for me!!! love you all!!
tchau!
Elder Long
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