Augusts 4, 2010

this is a pic of our bball team! haha.it was pretty fun last week

hey family,
how is everyone doing this fine day? the week was pretty good. i am
glad to hear that everything is going great in idaho, arizona and
nevada. i guess i will tell you about my week.
well my week was pretty good. maybe it wasnt as exciting as usual. we
havent been able to work as much because of meetings. last week though
was alright. emerson wasnt baptized on sunday because his wife haad to
work. his baptism will be tomorrow. it is about time he is baptized
already ha. we also had another miracle on saturday. there has been a
family that has been going to church in perdoes ever since i got here.
i thought they were members. on saturday, we were at lunch and this
family was there. they said today you need to teach a lesson to my
kids because they want to be baptized. haha. i just said we could
probably do that. they have already been taught everything and our
keeping all the commandments. the mom is a member. they lived in
perdoes and then moved to a city that doesnt have the church. so they
became inactive. now they returned and are going to church again. i
wwanted to just interview and baptize them the next day since they
already know everything but we decided to wait until this week. it has
been hard to visit them this week though because of meetings. that was
a huge blessing though! on monday, we had our monthly meeting with
president tanner. it was awesome because all the zone leaders got to
go to his house for lunch and we had the meeting there too. then we
played some ping pong and went swimming in his pool and stuff...haha
just kidding. it wsa all business there. i learned tons. it was more
of a conversation/counsel with all the zone leaders and president. it
was really good and i learned tons. i need to start working with the
members more! elder mendes and his comp had 51 LESSONS WITH MEMBERS
PRESENT! they also had 11 BAPTISMS! the only reason they were able to
do that is because of the members. so i will try to get better at
that! the meetings with pres are going to be really long now and on
the 23rd we will start our 4 day meeting. monday-friday with a temple
visit on pday. it will be awesome. i hope we can still have baptisms
that week though!!! yesterday we had our district meeting in bragança.
it was a good meeting considering the fact that we didnt plan very
well because of the meeting the day before. we got home very late
though because there was a wreck on the highway. but it was still a
good week! i still feel like we should be doing a lot better than we
are doing. i feel like this area is just about to be blessed!! i will
keep working hard!!
i was very happy to hear about clint's mission call!! i am so glad he
is going. it is the best! he will never regret it and he will learn
tons of stuff that he would never learn otherwise. there is no other
place that is better for him!! when is sadies wedding? is it coming up
soon? is darens yard coming together real well now?
well that is about all that happened this week. i still havent
received my scripture cases. i dont know why. i dont know how much
time it takes to make them. but i did ask for them about a year ago!!!
oh well. they will get here soon!!! love you guys! hope you all have a
great week!
love,
elder long