August 16, 2010

Hola :)
Well, I have yet another change here in Cerrillos. Ha, I thought that I would be leaving actually. But I really hope that this change Elder Grow and I will be able to see some of the fruits of our labors. I have the faith that this family we are teaching will get baptized. They went to church again, 3 weeks in a row. One thing that I am really bummed about is that my best friend here, Elder Speakman, is getting changed. He is really awesome, we are going to live together at BYU. He has 6 months less than I do. But maybe we'll be companions next, that'd be sweet.
We do have some other investigators that are interested and progressing, but not any others that have gone with us to church yet. Besides Steven, he goes every week. But his parents won't let him get baptized yet. And Marisol and her son Dilan go every week, but we are still waiting for her to fix her teeth so that she can get married then baptized. We are going to baptize Dilan the 29th of August. So that will be good :)

Elder Grow is doing well. Spanish is tough for him, but he has gotten a lot better and is able to teach pretty well now. I haven't heard much from Elder Mckay, I know that he was trying to set up his classes for BYU-I but all the ones that he wanted were full.

Gordon B Hinckley talking about his mission to Britain:

The work in the field was not easy. It was difficult and discouraging. But what a wonderful experience it was. In retrospect, I recognize that I was probably a selfish young man when I arrived in Britain. What a blessing it became to set aside my own selfish interests to the greater interests of the work of the Lord. I had the association of tremendous young men and women. They have become treasured friends whom I have known and loved now for more than half a century. How profoundly grateful I am for the experience of that mission. I touched the lives of a few who have, over the years, expressed appreciation. That has been important. But I have never been greatly concerned over the number of baptisms that I had or that other missionaries had. My satisfaction has come from the assurance that I did what the Lord wanted me to do and that I was an instrument in His hands for the accomplishment of His purposes. In the course of that experience, there became riveted into my very being a conviction and knowledge that this is in very deed the true and living work of God, restored through a prophet for the blessing of all who will accept it and live its principles.

Thanks for the quote from Pres. Hinckley :) I know that just because I don't have a lot of baptisms doesn't mean that I haven't accomplished much, i know I'm doing what I was meant to do here. Well, thanks for the email, hope that you have a great week, you're always in my prayers :)I'll try to send a few pics ;)We ate a an American restaurant called Mamut today, I had a New Orleans stake. It was way good!

Chao mi querido familia,

Elder Jeffrey Douglas DeLong