October 26, 2009

In my last letter I inquired more about the Bishop in Jeff's ward, who sems to be without counselors, and what the Elders are doing to help him:

Hola mamá!

It is a little sad, the Bishop is a great guy, and there are lots of good people in the ward. No one wants to make that commitment though, we do our best to try and help them. These last few weeks we´ve really been focusing on helping the less active families, it´s been good. We´ve had a lot of good experiences. We´ve been teaching the basics. The importance of prayer, as a family and individually. Next we´ll be teaching about the Holy Ghost. So I encourage you all to do the small things like prayer and studying the scriptures and FHE and going to church because those are the important things that make the difference and strengthen our testimonies the most. I do appreciate the time to study, it´s nice :)

So this Tuesday I´ll be getting a new companion. Don´t know who yet, but I´ll be in the same sector still. I´m really sad to part with Elder Mckay, he´s a really good friend now, but I think it´s time for a change and it will be good. I´m sure this new companion will be good too, I hope haha.

They celebrate Halloween down here, did you know that? Theres lots of candy out and stuff. Although the candy is definitely not as good here (or the food for the matter. It´s good, but I miss American food)

I hope to have a couple baptisms this change, we have some people that are so close! Oh, yesterday at church was interesting, we had an investigator (who we met Saturday) come to church drunk. It was actually still really good, he went to clase and we had a good lesson. (Oh and last week I taught the class by my self!) But this man has had a rough past couple years. His mom died 2 years ago, then a year ago his brother committed suicide and then this past august his wife did too. So when we found him he also wanted to commit suicide. But we´ve shared the gospel and the Plan of Salvation with him and he is much happier and has reason to life again, so that was really cool.Well gotta go! Love you and am always praying for you!Take care and have a great week!Love,Elder Jeffrey DeLong