September 28, 2009

>Ok, so I forgot to tell you this last week so I´m going to tell you it
first this week :) Last week on Wednesday I was at lunch with the bishops
wife and a missionary( Elder Butterfield) visited them, at the same time we were
there, with his family who had come down to pick him up. And they were
having a blast! They strongly encouraged me to have you and dad come down
and get me, and I really want you too! It would be a great experience for
you :) But, you´d have to start saving for it now because it is a
lot. But, I gave Elder Butterfield´s mom the house number and she said
that she was going to call you! I really hope she does. So that was
really exciting


After we received this email the Butterfields from Utah did call us to say that they had met Jeff and how much they enjoyed their time in Chile. They sent us some pictures of our son along with their son.

We are going to our stake center in Peñaflor to watch conference. We( us north americans or ¨Gringos¨) actually get our very own room to watch it in english will be nice. We did a lot of work with the inactive families in our ward this last week. There are 3 or 4 families who all have testimonies and are so close to going to church, but for some reason or another they don´t. It´s pretty frustrating. We did have 2 investigators in church yesterday though. Rosa is back on track to be baptized so we are excited about that. And we had another, Juancarlos, come as well. He is great, I really wnat him to get baptized!

Well, today is actually nice out! The past two days were super cold and a little rainy. Today we have a family home evening with a less active family, we are having a barbeque with them! It´ll be fun! I´m excited for conference, it´ll be great to hear from our prophet. It´s such a blessing to have a modern day prophet! With out him, we´d be like a boat in the ocean without a light house, and we know what happens to those when we get close to shore..(I used that analogy with Rosa to explain the importance of prophets to her :) )Ok, well I love you and am p`raying for you all. Give the missionaries some references and help them out ;) Have a great week!

Love,Elder DeLong

Oh, and have the missionaries come over and help clean up the yard, most never get enough service opportunities