August 23, 3 New Investigators!!

You heard right folks, we got 3, not 2, or 1, but three! That's huge in our area. Usually we have one or two we're working with, now we have 6!!
NI:1 Beda,
We met her tracting a couple weeks ago, she said she has some friends who are members. So we started talking to her and for a couple weeks have tried to set up a time we could go see her but for one reason or another they all fell through. We finnally saw her on wednesday. We taught her a 1st and tried to get her to church, no show. However, we should have another lesson with her this week. She's in her 60's, spanish, and interested.
NI:2 Jose
Also met him trackting. Getting investigators tracting is very rare in the whole mission. He's a 60/70 year old man, speaks spanish. We taught him and half of his drunken neighbour who kept interupting with dumb questions. The miracle with him is we commited to baptism on the 1st lesson. Elder Amundsen told him in about 4 weeks. I slightly have the feeling he didn't understand all we taught, so pray that he can. We do have a little problem with him that we've never faced before... he can't read. So we're going to have to get creative with our commitments.
NI:3 Salvador
Tracting!! Miracle week I'm telling you. We had an awesome lesson with him yesterday. He asked all the right questions like, "why did god take so long to restore his authority" and things like that. He actually told us about how the bible has some faults from the people who translated it. I'm so excited to teach him more. He saterted asking questions about after death and things like that, the lord has definately prepared him. He speaks both spanish and english really well, but we're going to teach in english cause it seems to be better for all of us.

Anthony and Sergio are coming along really really well. Anthony understands really well, better then Sergio actually. We taught both them this week, Sergio love the Plan de Salvacion puzzle and kept asking where he can get one. Mom, anyone leaving on a mission can't leave without it. It has helped so much, especially with these boys. It can be hard to teach kids, especially if they get sidetracked easily. Tonight in our FHE we're teaching the 10 Commandments, I'll tell you more about that in a minute. Right now everything is on track for their baptism the 6th.

Still haven't heard any news from Edwin. Unfortuanetly we can't call him and ask cause he's out of our area. We can't even call the Elders he's supposed to be working with. We're going to try and send a letter to him today.

For the HUGE Grand Family of less actives we're working with, well everyone came to church this week. BOOH YEAH!! So like we promised, we have something special for FHE tonight, plus we're going to fix a time we can go to the temple, but tonight Elder Amundsen and I are going to dress up as Moses (guess who's idea that was ;))and teach the 10 Commandments. Not only will we have fun looking like fools, but it can count as a lesson for the boys which is really going to help.

We are starting to see the fruits of ou labors and we are loving every minute of it! Not only did we get those Investigators but we also recieved a member refferal and some other referrals which we'll keep us busy as well. Our prayers are being answered, thank you so much and keep up the good work at home. The people here are in need of the love of Christ and they are in need of your prayers. I love you all and hope all is going well at home. Love you.

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