April 7, 2010

My zone

hey how are you guys doing? how did easter go? and conference weekend? i hope everything has been going great! it sounds like there are some really crazy experiences happening with my friends in their missions. lots that i dont ever want to experience...like heart surgery or swalling a pop can tab! zach is back to work already though? that is pretty cool! but i guess i will tell you all about my week. It was another crazy, jam packed week! it was almost perfect until sunday!!

well we have been teaching tons of people!!! it is going great! this week we found 22 new investigators and almost all of them will progress! what a blessing! we are having difficulties teaching everyone! but hopefully we can get some splits planned out with the members to double our forces or at least maybe we can give the priesthood to moisés early because he is already wanting to go with us the whole day! well we are still teaching that huge family. they live on a property with three houses. we taught in one of the other houses too and there are 5 people that live there. and then yesterday a missionary from our zone gave us an address of one of his contacts that is the other person that lives on the property. i am almost certain that there is someone needing this message there, if not about 20!! there are at least 20 people that live on this property. not to mention all the referals they have given us of friends!! that is great. we have been teaching tons though. we also taught a family of 5. they are really strong in the catholic church but they are acepting all the invites so far! the mom's brother works in the temple. i think he is a sealer! we also are teaching another couple that will finally get married on the 25th! they are progressing well and really like our visits and might be baptized on the 26th if everything goes right! well on sunday, it got a little crapier. we found a huge SUV to take everyone to church. we got to the house where the huge family lives and one of the kids was sick and so the mom didnt want to go and no one else wanted to go without her. nobody else could go either. the only people that went were moisés and lucas and two kids that i have never seen before. ha we just asked if they wanted to go and they came with jonatan haha. conference was pretty good. i watched in portuguese. they had it in english there but i decided that i will be able to watch it in english the rest of my life ha. and there is only two years in portuguese. (even though i will probably watch in portuguese on the internet afterwards too ha). i was dissapointed that i wasnt able to see a talk by Eyring, uchtdorf, holland or bednar. none of them talked on sunday! the sunday afternoon session was just about family and family search and i think they were trying to make missionaries everywhere a little trunky haha. i liked one thing that robert d hales said about family dinner. "it's not the food, but the family interaction that nourishes the soul." i am glad that we always ate dinner together! after the first session though we had 9 baptisms! the two from our area and 7 from the others in the stake. it was pretty great! i have taught or interviewed every single one of the 9 baptisms. it was nice to see all of them finally being baptized ha. i baptized lucas. ha i had to do it twice because i guess his forehead came out of the water ha. ha and it did, after going 6 inches into the water ha. almost all of the baptisms were preformed twice haha. i think the testimony was jsut trying to be safe haha. but it was pretty special. but ya that was pretty much my week. we met all our goals easily except investigators at church. we will have to get better with that!

it was good to read all your emails! i am glad to hear that the jazz are at number two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when will the regular season end? before next pday? i am anxious to hear! will it be whoever wins in the west will win it? sounds pretty close! ha well i guess that is about it ha. love you guys!

love,

elder long