Finding!

This week was a little bit discouraging, but we're trying not to be

discouraged by it. :) We have really been trying to find people to

teach. it's an eternal struggle as a missionary... But this whole

week, we planned in finding activities like visiting former

investigators and seeing how they're doing and how they felt about the

old missionaries that taught them and stuff... and the whole time we

were in the car, I was on the phone calling people... We also did

stuff like visit active members and taught them basic principles and

invited them to try to think of people who would benefit from that

information... Which all had potential to give us some new names and

faces of people who may be interested... BUT! unfortunately, even

though we've been working like crazy, none of those plans resulted in

any new investigators... :(

We did however talk to this guy in the street, Charles, who asked us

to play a prank on his pregnant wife, Marisol! So we stopped by their

house and we were going to "guess" the name of her new baby (Jacob)

and freak her out. It sounded a little immature for missionaries to be

doing that, but we showed up anyway..  He answered the door and said

he already explained it to her and the prank was off (thank goodness).

But they invited us in and were super fun and really nice. We

explained who we were and they invited us back this week to explain

the Plan of Salvation. All is going well with them, and we're hoping

to add them as our solid investigators soon!

Jerry is a beast. He's our 10 year old investigator, and we're going

to baptize him this Saturday. We almost had to cancel it this weekend

though, which was kind of a scare.

We dropped by yesterday to ask him all the details of the program,

like who he wants to baptize him and say the prayers and the talks...

and we asked if Saturday at 3 would still work... His mom was part of

this conversation and jumped in by saying that maybe next months would

be better, or the month after. Obviously that's not preferable.. But

he can't get baptized without her approval and she is the mother, so

whatever she says is final. We asked if there was any specific reason

for moving the date and we assured her that Jerry is all set and he's

ready whenever she is. Her big concern was money.. Jerry doesn't

really have any nice clothes, and she can't afford to bring anything

to the after party... :( super sad. It was kind of a touchy subject

obviously, so we tried not to be too pushy. Cuz she just wanted to

wait for a paycheck. But Elder Wride and I decided to buy him a shirt,

and give him some of our ties to wear. And we told her that the

after-party is just a gift from the branch to the family, so she

doesn't have to bring anything. It was so sad to see something like

that be the reason to post-pone a baptism. :( We just love that

family, and we want to help them.

Anywho, by the end of our meeting we arranged for the baptism to be on

this Saturday as long as we can meet with Jerry a couple more times

this week. But keep him in your prayers!

Sounds like you had a nice week with the family in town! Hope Jace's

homecoming went well, sorry about Murphy... :(

Love you all!

Elder Webster