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Week 74

This week we saw another tarantula but this time it was alive!! It was a little bigger too.

Its rained another day or two but the shade here has been super nice and i like it a lot.

I´m having trouble combining with the members to leave and teach with them. President told me in my letter this week that I need to do better. He also expressed his diappointment that we only talked to like 35 people that first week, this week we talked to 52 but next week we need to do even better so he doesnt burn me!

Everything this week was gong great until Saturday and then everything fell through! Sunday morning we had 15 people who had committed to go to church! That's a lot! Especially after last week only having 1 person who said they would go.

But on Saturday morning the family of 5 called us and said they didnt want to go anymore and they would stay in their own church. Then the other family of 3 decided they wouldnt promise they would go but if they were up to it on Sunday morning they would show up. They are really soft investigators, we had a lesson with them and invited them to be baptized and I invited them all 5 times, 5! And they wouldn't commit so they might be cut this week, well.. the guy, Eduardo for sure will cause he doesnt really want anything. But the mom, Vera, we´re going to keep at it for 1 more week with her.

Anyway we only had 1 person at church again but she is a really good possibility for baptism this week.

Well... we´re just working here and everything is fine. Hope you all have a great week. I miss you all and Love you.

Elder Haws

Week 75

Conference was good. I liked a lot of the talks! I missed pretty much all of the first session on Saturday because our investigaor, Josiane had a baptismal interview. Though she drank coffee earleir and so couldnt be baptized. She won't drink it again though! We only got three people to conference, which is really disapointing. People ALWAYS say that they will go to church if there were more hours available (though I know its just an excuse) and so finally that there are more opportunities to go, nobody goes! And this just proves it once again cause this is already my 3rd general conference as a missionary!

The only session of conference that we aren't allowed to watch is priesthood because when it happens its alreay 9 at night here and we have to be at home. I will be able to download the talks from the church website as soon as they get them up though.

This week we talked to more people but not the 70 that I wanted.... just 61 so... we´ll improve again this week.

 

They dont really have tortillas here. You can buy them in quite a few stores actually, but nobody here buys or eats them or even kows what they are. When you ask for them they usally end up confused and then asking if you mean pita bread and they say they dont have it (though about half the time they do) haha.

So as for this week.. we knocked a lot of doors, which isn't going to continue to happen. It's soo ineffective and we´re not really having any real progress in the ward here. All of our 8 people who had commited to go to conference fell trough! All except 1, who it was the memebr that fell through and called us at the exact time he was supposed to pick up our investigator, that he wouldnt be able to do it, it was only 30 minutes before conference started and so we scrambled and scrambled but couldnt find anybody who could help us and so nobody went there. Soo... if he had been wanting to go still, he didnt get to. We can only pass by on weekends so we´ll have to wait until this next weekend to figure out if he was there and ready just waiting for a ride...

We also had Zone conference last week but I forgot to tell you guys about it. I'll forward the photos that they sent to us!

Sorry that not a lot of cool things happened this week. I love hearing from you all though and love you all so much.

Com amor,

Elder Haws