September 7, 2009

"These last 2 weeks have been pretty good. The last couple days here have been really cold and rainy. Winter should be coming to an end soon, I hope. This last week I had to go on a lot of divisions with other elders. I went on one with the zone leader. What you do is stay the night over in their sector and then come home the next day. That was fun, I got a free tie from one of their investigators. Then I had a couple others because my companion is the District Leader so he has lots of meetings and I go on divisions with another elder. Our sector is going pretty well. I didnt have many days this last week to work in it because of the divisions. "

Jeff and his companion Elder McKay, who is the zone leader. Below, an Elder that Jeff went on divisions with, name unknown to us at this time.

"But our investigator, Rosa has one more interview then she should be good to be baptized. Then we have another, Juancarlos, who wants to be baptized, so we are working on teaching him. Another, Claudia, also wants to be baptized. She has a long way to go though, but thats ok. We have a 15 year girl who we are teaching too, she has come to church once with us. And also an middle aged man, Noe, who we visit. He is Evangelical and a very animated person. Hes fun. Those are our progressing investigators. We also are still visiting inactive members all the time. We visited one last night, Rut, she was baptized a while ago but stopped going to church a few weeks after becasue she didn´t feel the spirit in the classes and the missionaries stopped totally stopped visiting her, which they are not supposed to do. But she says her life has been worse since she stopped going, so I think we will be able to get her back to church."

Jeff has a distant relation that is also serving in his mission right now, Elder Matt Kennison. Elder Kennison is the son of Angie DeLong's brother Dave Kennison, who lives in Utah. I had told Jeff to watch for Matt in any of their meetings & to try to talk to him. They did meet at a zone conference and seemed to hit it off well.

"In my email that was supposed to get to you last week I explained my meeting with Elder Kennison. Hes a great kid, I hope we get to be companions. Elder Mckay and him were living in together in Elder Kennisons first area. So they are friends, thats pretty cool. The zone conference was fun."

"yesterday at church we had 41 people. Apparently when it rains people don´t go to church here. Yesterday was pretty miserable, I hate the rain. But the language is a lot better, still have a long way to go though!"
I love you and am praying for you! :)

Love,
Elder DeLong