April 11, 2011

You are right, Mom. I have been blessed a lot lately. We´ve been finding a lot of new people to teach and I`m beginning to see little changes in the attitude of the ward. The bishop has been very happy with us and has been trying to get the rest of the ward leaders to coordinate their efforts to help us out and serve others. I felt like the main focus of this past general conference was that we should be reaching out and serving others at all times. My companion and I are planning on helping some less active members this week to build their house. Right now their just living in this tiny room they made from some cement blocks. No floor, no roof. Just some sheet metal with holes in it to cover the room. Luckily the rainy season still hasn`t started yet or I don`t know where they would live. We have to help them build a few more walls and hopefully the ward will jump in soon to help us put up the roof. We just recently found the mom of the family while traveling in public transport. She told us she was a member and where she lived and we went to visit her later. She wasn`t in the ward list because she recently came from another ward after losing her house (she had to sell it for almost nothing).

Leandro, Margarita`s wife, was baptized yesterday. It was awesome. His wife was so happy and the baptismal service went perfectly. My companion sung a special musical number while playing the guitar. He was in the Rondalla de Saltillo before he came on the mission. Not that you would know what a Rondalla is. I explain later. The point is he sings and plays very well. The problem is that his daughter, the very rebellious one I was telling you about, refused to come. I have pictures but this computer isn`t recognizing my memory card. I`ll have to send them later.

The only sad news is that of 9 new investigators and like 5 or 6 other ones that had gone to church previously, not one showed up in sacrament meeting yesterday.

I hope you guys are all doing great. Read the scriptures daily!

Love,

Brett