December 19, 2011

Angel got baptized and confirmed yesterday. He seemed pretty happy about it even though he had to miss some committment with his Dad to go to church. Now we don`t really have a whole lot of other people to teach. We`ve been teaching a few non-member husbands, but only one went to church yesterday. All the more recent converts have been going, which is good. The majority of the ward actually consists of recent converts or recently reactivated members. The younger ex missionaries have been helping us fellowship Angel as well. We decided to organize a special ward choir to go and sing christmas songs to the less active and new members. Hopefully, people will come to the rehearsals. We talked to some people that practice Judaism the other day and we`re going to go back to teach them today. It`s weird. I don`t think I`ve ever talked to someone of that religion in my entire mission. Think about what we were going to teach them confirmed my testimony of Jesus Christ as my Saviour and made me appreciate the Book of Mormon even more which explains so clearly the relationship between the law of Moses and Christ and closes the old testament-new testament gap.

While in the zone leaders` area, my old area, to interview someone for baptism I ran into some old friends, which was cool. Even though we could only say a few words to each other because it was late and we had to get back to Zacatelco. I`ve been trying to get Margarita, the first person I baptized there, to go back to church. She lives right in front of the chapel where we have district meeting every week. So, I try to talk to her for a little bit. It really surprised me when the zone leaders told me that she was no longer active.

I got your package, Mom, with the socks and candy and the book. Thanks. All the candies are my favorites and the book is eye opening as well.

I had to get my temple recommend renewed when President came to interview us. And last night Elder Rainford told me he was going to buy my plane ticket home today. It`s weird how fast time flys.

Make sure you skype accounts are ready for christmas.