January 16, 2012

The zone conference was on Wednesday. It went ok. My part in the training didn´t really turn out as well as I hoped, but hopefully they learned something. I bore my testimony along with the rest of my generation at the end because it was my last zone conference. It´s cool being a zone leader, mainly because both my companion and I have the same goals and desires and it´s a lot easier to be unified as a companionship. Elder Avendaño has like 6 months less time than I do in the mission, but he knows the scriptures and preach my gospel better than I do, I think.

Some investigators finally went to Church this sunday. We fasted especially for them and stressed the importance of attending church with them the whole week, and 4 of them went to church even though there´s been fiestas in every little town of our area every weekend. We think it´s likely this week that they accept a baptismal date. The ward mission leader and the ward missionaries are helping us out a lot and we are really trying to have a member present in every lesson, which is giving us results. This week we taught 19 lessons, including those taught to investigators, less actives, and recent converts. We want to reach at least 20 every week. Carmen and Enrique, a couple that I taught when I was here before that couldn´t be baptized because of legal problems (they´re not married and they can´t married until Carmen who´s from Colombia has the proper visa requirements), has continued atending church every week since I left and they´re so close to being able to be baptized. They plan on getting married civily by the 1 of February. It would be a dream come true if I was able to see them be baptized before I return home. Pray for them, please.

The temperature has risen a little bit lately, but the weather is still weird. It´s rained a couple times lately which is very unsual for this time of year. Our house is still like a refrigerator though. I can´t wait to go back to Florida where it´s warm.

I love you guys,

Brett