December 21, 2009

We haven't been receiving any pictures from Jeff for the past several weeks. He said they are not suppossed to take pictures while they are out proselyting, they tend to look like tourists, plus it takes time away from their main purpose of being there-to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Well my week was good, the work here has been going well. We've found a lot of new people to teach recently. We found this woman who was inactive for 8 years and we are in the process of reactivating her. She has two kids that we are going to baptize in January, 9 and 10 years old, so that will be fun.

Jeff is still struggling with his new companion:

But you can't get along with all the companions perfectly, so..But we've been having a lot of success so thats been good. People are a little more receptive this time of year so thats good.
We had 60 at church yesterday, so our ward is still small.


Rosa is doing great, I'm really happy that I'll be able to see her baptism, her son Sergio is going to baptize her so that will be great! And I think I'm going to do the confirmation, yikes! Umm, Christmas we'll go over to a families and for New Years the Bishops. I'm not really sure still whats going to happen. We have our big mission activity the 23rd, so I'm really excited about that.

I'm wondering if in the next box we send to Jeff we shouldn't include an American cookbook?

And can you send me a recipe for corn bread, cheesecake and brownies (without a box)? It's hard because things like corn syrup don't exist here, so we can't do the caramel corn.

I felt sad that he couldn't find a way to make caramel corn. That is one of his favorite things to eat, always a holiday treat. I was hoping that he could give us a little more detail on when he would be calling around Christmas:

And as far as the call, all I can tell you is that it will be the 24th in the afternoon/evening. I don't know a specific time, sorry. And I think thats about it. Ok, thanks for everything, I'm praying for you all and am super excited to talk to you on the 24th!
Take care,love,
Elder DeLong