June 1st, No Subject

This week was really  good and we are having a lot of progress in our area.

This week on wednesday, one of our investigatores was going to have his baptism interview with our district leader to be baptized on friday. He called us a 30 minutes before his interview and told us that he didnt want to do it and he would think more about getting bapitzed. So we went to visit him on friday with a really good member. He talked pretty much the whole time and I didnt have to do any talking. He just talked about how he already has a testimony and should just get baptized and how he can be an example for his friend and help them and even baptize them when they are ready. He really got him excited to be baptized again and he should be getting baptized this friday. He is really prepared and im really excited to see him get baptized. 

We also have been working a lot with 2 recent converts, the sangary family and ramirez family. They are 2 families that are going throught a lot of problems, mainly with the fathers of the family. The fathers have pretty much stopped coming to church and the wives are really sad. We visited both families a lot this week and they both came to church this week in a really long time. The two of them are doing really well and progressing a lot. We really are trying to get them to go to the temple and be sealed. The wives of these two family really want to go to the temple but their husbands arent doing the things they should to go. We are helping them a lot.

Thats about all that happened this week. I really hope that we are going to have that baptism this week.

Elder Britt

May 25th, No Subject

This week was really good but not that much happened. The rain is killing all of our lessons here. When it starts to rain pretty much people just stop everything and dont want to do anything. We have continued visiting alex and we arent sure if hes going to get baptized this week. There is a small chance. But his mom just wants him to think a little more about what he is doing and then he will give him permission to be baptized. So there is a small chance it can happen friday but if not itll probably be next week.  We are also teaching this less active family and things are going pretty well with them. We are reactivating them and helping them put goals to go to the temple. We are hoping everything goes well with them. We feel like they have some problems they arent telling us but we hope everything goes alright. We went to the zoo this week and I have a lot of cool pictures but my adaptor broke and I cant send them but next week Ill for sure send them. Thats about everything that happened this week. Not too much.  Elder Britt

May 18th, No Subject

This week was really good. We started the rainy and cold season here. Its pretty difficult to have lessons in that weather but we did pretty well! We had some really good lessons this week with Alexander. He is progressing really well and I think he will get baptized. We leave him 1 chapter to read in the book of mormon and when we come back the next day he has read 4 chapters. He loves us visiting him and he wants us to visit him almost everyday. He is one of the best investigatores Ive had. He even told us that he wants to do what we do and preach, or he wants to go on a mission. If we can get permission from his parents. He will for sure get baptized.  We also had branch conference yesterday. It was really nice because a lot of the leaders from the stake came. I was able to see a lot of people from my old area which was really nice. We also had a really good branch conference. A lot of the less actives came to it.  Thats about all the big news. We are still visiting with luisa y aurelio. They are progressing really well still but they dont really want to come to church. Hopefully we can get them to come next week. Thats all that really happened this week. We are going to go to a zoo in Santa Cruz. I feel really weird wearing jeans and a shirt again! Love, Elder Britt

May 11th, Transfers!

Not too much happened this week so its probably going to be a short email.

This week my Elder Zaldívar was transferred to Trinidad. So he had to travel by airplane to get there. I got my new comp. Hes really cool. He is from Bolivia from a city called Oruro. I don't know to much about him still. We have had a few lessons this week with some random contacts and the lessons go really well. We teach very well together. 

We haven't been able to get a hold of any of our investigators that were progressing really well this week. But we did have a lot of really good lessons with some new people this week. Hopefully we will get some good lessons this week and have a lot of progression with our investigators.

Love 

Elder Britt

All those ants were outside our wall. We got rid of them though!

May 4th, No Subject

This week was really good. We did have some hard time finding people to teach this week. A lot of people told us to just come back tomorrow and we couldnt find them.

We did start teaching a part member family this week. They are the palacio family. The husband is a really old less active and her wife is an investigator that comes to church almost every week. We have tried visiting them so many times but the husband is a taxi driver that works almost all day. But finally we were able to find them. We had a really powerful lesson with them and we were able to visit them 2 times this week. I think we will finally be able to teach them now.

We also have been able to visit a lot with alex. we have started to read the book of mormon with him. We leave just one chapter for him to read and the next day we come back and hes read like 4 chapters. He is progressing really well. Im pretty sure he will be baptized if we can just get the permission from his parents. 

We are still trying to contact a lot in this area but its pretty hard. We can almost always get a visit with somebody to come back and teach them but they are almost never there. We did get a lot of references to a lot of less actives and part member families yesterday in ward council.

I'm looking forward to this week! 

Elder Britt

Apr. 27th, No Subject

This week was really good. We worked really hard and got a lot of lessons this week. We found a new family this week. La hermana Lusia y El hermano Aurelio. They  are a really good family that love hearing us. We showed up to one of our lessons about 10 mintues late and they were worried we werent going to show up. They are progressing pretty well for a new investigator.

We did visit Alext a lot this week. We decided to set a date for him to get baptized and he accepted to get baptized the 16th of may. The only problem we have with him is that we have to get permession for him to get baptized still. But he still really wanted to get baptized. He is still really excited everytime we visit him. He loves our visits. 

We are also teaching the Roman family a lot. They are really going well but the dad is struggling a little bit to accept some of the stuff. But with each lesson, he is learning more and more.

Thats about all that happened this week but we should be getting a lot of lesson this week!

Elder Britt

Apr. 20th, No Subject

This week was really good. Saturday we had a baptism of 2 kids. My comp baptized one and I baptized the other. My comp went first and when it came to my turn the kid started crying. He got in the water and was like, The water comes up to my chest! Im going to drowned! I cant do it! and the whole time his other brother was yelling and him to just do it and stop being a girl. It was a really funny experience. He was really excited for his baptism until he had to get int the water to do it but afterwards he told us he was really happy and felt really good! Those 2 kids are my favorite.

This week we also had Elder Waddell from the 70 to our mission. It was a really good confrence. He pretty much just talked about our purpose as missionaries that we are here to baptize converts so that they will be able to go to the temple and have eternal families. It was a really good conference.

We also have a family the is progressing really well. The Román family. Their daughter who is 16 is pretty much a member. But now the whole family is listening to us. We taught the all of lesson ones and helped the father out a lot. He asked us to prepare a special lesson for the next visit because they are fighting a lot. So we thought, we have to give talks in church tomorrow and we told them that we would prepare a special talk for their children and we wont make it too obvious. So we actually got them to come to church yesterday. They told us they didnt really want to because they like going to the catholic church but because of our talk they came. The family is progressing really well. 

Thats about all that happened this week. We have a family night with the Roman family so Im really looking forward to that! 

Elder Britt

The water for the baptism was really dirty too. It reminds me of my first baptism.

Also theres a group of people called cholitas that just sell things on the street. I was looking at some of the stuff she was selling. If you look really closely you can find something really funny she was selling. She was selling a book of mormon for 4 pesos!