March 30, 2011

hey everyone! i guess i will just hurry and tell you about my week. everything is going well. i guess it could be better but it was alright. So since last week, we dont have many new people. we are working with the same people to get them baptized. we didnt have much success in finalizing the baptism of carol's family. we are trying our best to do that this week. we had quite a few people that went to church though. the reason we werent able to confirm everything about their baptism is because on saturday we went to a different area to help them out. the whole zone went. the missionaries that work there didnt show much gratitude. they went to the church. they didnt plan very well and there were supposed to be members for every missionary. there were only a few members. the missionaries in the area didnt do anything and the bishop started to organize the companionships. he tried to put me and another elder with two of the young women in the ward. i told him i wasnt going to go with two girls cuz we cant. turns out he didnt know that because the missionaries in his ward have been going on visits with people of the other sex all the time!!! we finished up all our visits by 10:30 and we were supposed to have a ride home. we finally got a ride at 3:30!!! so we werent able to talk to carol's family and they ended up not even going to church. so i wasnt to happy with those missionaries. saturday was a great day though. most of the members in the ward were at the church saturday night and they visited all of our investigators and tons of inactive members! there were 130 people at church on sunday which is almost the most it has ever been! we had quite a few people at church though and we got a bunch of people that are progressing now. the meetings were very irreverant but the investigators still felt the spirit! things are going good. the last couple days have been a little slow but things we get better and we will get a lot of people at conference this week. i am excited for conference!
one crappy thing happened though. there is a really elect couple that is doing their best to get married as quick as possible so they can be baptized. turns out she doesnt have her birth certificate. we did our best to get it here this week so that they could get married quick. after you take in the paper work, you have to wait 16 days. we werent able to get it in time. there is noway to get it by friday. so i wont be able to see their baptism. that makes me a little sad. they are really elect people! oh well. at least they will be baptized i guess!
thanks for everything though! love you guys
love,
elder long