Still Working Hard Knocking On Doors

In Justin's email today he wrote, "Hey Everyone, Well not too much happened this week. It flew by. I don't have much time left I was writing my president letter. He told us this week that he wants us to write more because at the end of our missions he makes it into a book as a gift for us, so I put a little more detail into it this week. Well let's see. One of the highlights of this week is that I got to eat french toast on Friday morning.(See. Good food is a highlight in his life right now. The boy needs to find people to teach and find new and better highlights!) We had to pass by the offices and so we went to Dumbos (one of grandpa's favorites in Coch) and I had some french toast. I think I might get the same today. And it only costs a dollar! Great deal. I think I may either go play volleyball with Elder Powell or go paint balling. We are going to decide after. I've never gone paint balling before. My companion is teaching me the guitar as well, so I am going to go buy one today, only 30 or 40 dollars or so, just one to learn on.

Yesterday was one of those harder Sundays. No one came again! We had a bunch of people that promised us they would come to church and members set up to go and get them and everything. But we put together a plan to try and make our area better, help the members and everything. Next Sunday we are going to bring a couple of members to the house and split up and go to every single one of our investigators house to remind them or bring them to church. Our area is hugeee so it's going to be hard to do but we are going to do it because we are sick of them not coming. Because if they don't come, nothing happens. Hopefully it should work. We are also planning an activity for the 15th of August. My companion somehow got his hands on that Joseph Smith movie that they only show in the Joseph Smith building and that you can't buy so we are going to show it for our activity. We are trying to get everyone to come, we made posters, invitations, all that junk. We really don't care much about the investigators coming this time. We just need to get more support from the members. We know that if they come to this one they will like it and they'll come to other ones in the future and the investigators will get to know them more, they'll have friends, and they'll also bring us more investigators. It's tough though, the bishop tells us we need to coordinate more with the ward, so we have changed our plans for the past two weeks to go to ward council, but no one ever shows up, not even the the bishop. But I think we are going to be able to help the ward out.

We also put another person with a baptismal date this week, a 10 year old girl Maria Del Carmen Velasquez. Her uncle was the bishop and everything but her mom Elizabeth has been inactive for 10 years. She wants her daughter to get baptized though and says she is going to be an example for her and go to church and all that stuff, but for two weeks now she hasn't come. We will meet with them tomorrow , so we'll help them out. We are also teaching another girl Anabel, the cousin of members. She is the one that told us we weren't going to be able to convince her but we taught her and she was shut up and told us we were right. Anyways, we had another lesson with her yesterday and she got an answer but doesn't want to accept it. She's scared. Her family is way way Catholic and I think she is scared of that. She kept trying to make up excuses and do dumb questions. I told her that we have the answers to every one of their questions but that we didn't care much to answer them that night until she could make up in her mind if this message is true or not. Yes or no. And once she could tell us that we would keep going.

We had a little more success finding people this week knocking doors. Hopefully they can end up progressing. We had zone conference this week. President gave us a presentation that he wants us to give to the members about their responsibility that they have have to participate in the mission work. Hopefully it works. I think 4 more gringos got here this week, and it sounds like most if the others here in a couple of weeks. The weeks are flying! This year is going to go by fast.

Last Monday I went bowling. What a hoot. (A Justin-ism) Love you all. Bye.