11-1-10 November

Family and all,

 

I hope you all had a good Halloween. We did. Two investigators came to church!

 

So transfers came and went, and so did my companion. He left even though he had only been here for 6 weeks. But I got to stay!! I am happy for that. My new companion is Elder Perez. I am training him. He is about 13 inches shorter than I am. Ha I'll send a picture next week; I don't have one this week.

He is a good missionary with a lot of desire and enthusiasm. He has a great testimony. I have enjoyed getting to know him better. It is a little different training that I expected, but we are both learning. He has ADD and ADHD, which sometimes make it hard for him to concentrate in lessons, but he is doing his best to overcome that. Bing involved helps him focus. His Sanish is not qute as good as I was expecting; I speak a good deal better than him. But he speaks well enough to communicate, and that's what's important. He also has a little bit of a stutter in English. Is is magnified in Spanish, and takes him a long time to get out what he want to say. Being nervous, scared, or excited adds to it, but he is gtting more comfortable, and his speech has improved since he has gotten here. He has a great desire and we should have a good transfer or two together. I am praying that we have lots of good experiences together, so he can desire a love for the work and see success.

 

So, Rosalba (the one who was going to get baptised) disappeared of the face of the earth. I'm guessing that either she got some anti stuff or took of early to Mexico for vacation. Hopefully it was the latter. Very hopefully. We have not had contact with her since last saturday (the 23rd). But hopefully we can get some baptisms soon.

 

I sent something to pops that I'll throw in here because it's good:

This week on Monday I had an experience. I was visiting with a recent convert of 9 months. She had a strong testimony, but was having difficulty coming to church recently because of pressure from her her husband, who is going to another church. She told us she had made the decision to stop coming to our church so the family could be together, even though she felt much different in our church than inany other. She had a testimony of our church, but felt like God would hear her in whatever church she was in, and she wanted to have her family go together. I had no idea what to say, but tried my best to listen to the spirit. I began to talk and felt prompted to talk about the Sacrament. I told her that she could go there and God would listen to her, but she would never feel the same, and would not be happy because they did not have the sacrament blessed by the proper authority. I really felt the spirit as I testified to her that the only was to get her family happy and united was by coming to our church. I felt like the Spirit led me to know what to say.

 

That's about all for this week. If you have and questions, write and ask them! I love all of you.

-Elder Burnham