June 15th, No Subject

So this morning I had a small operation on my eye. Ive had a stye in my eye for about 3 months now. I went to the hospital and they were just like, yeah, nothing is happening with the cream we gave you. Lets just cut it out. So they numbed my eye up and cut it out. I have a huge eye patch on my eye and its really hard to read all the emails I got. Ill be able to take my eye patch off at 3 in the afternoon. This week had a really good multi zone conference. President pretty much changed the entire meeting. He was going to talk about the sabbath day but at the last minute he changed the whole meeting to Alma 39. He was pretty much talking to all the disobedient elders trying to help them. He talked about how a good elder doesnt just all of a sudden become disobedient. He doesnt go from white to black over night. He slow changes and them becomes disobedient. The only bad thing about the confrences is that we have to wake up at 4 in the morning to go to them because we live so far away. But it was a really good meeting. This week I wasnt able to work in my area that much. Im pretty much just going with 2 other elders to there area. We have had some really good lessons in their area but I still dont know the people to well. We are having our transfers on Thursday. I think there is a good chance that I might go. Ive already have 4 and a half months in this area and 8 month in the zone. I dont know whats going to happen this transfer. Not too much happened this week. I hope Ill stay in my area and have a good new comp to work with. Love, Elder Britt This week a lot of members gave us a ton of food too. It was really good. And the elders that im with had a baptism so that was really fun too.

June 8th, No Subject

So this week was a pretty normal week.

On Friday my comp and I had interviews with president and right after that he got emergency transferred. So right now im in a trio with the 2 elders I live with. Im waiting right now to recieve my new comp. We have our next transfers June 18th so I think im going to have to wait till then. Its hard being in a trio, I feel like I dont get that much time to teach now but Ill just have to get used to it.

So this friday we were suppose to have a baptism of alexander but things with him fell through. He had his interview Thursday night and he told the district leader that he wanted to wait another week. We had a visit with him the next day and he told us that he is going to go work with his uncle in a few weeks and that there isnt a church where he is going. He would pretty much be baptized and then just become a less active. I dont know whats going to happen with him but I dont know if he is going to get baptized.

This week I also got a little sick with a cold and my throat has been killing me. Its been really hard to talk to people but Im getting over it now so this week should be really good!

This week we are going to have a lot of visits because our 2 areas are now one area. We have a ton of families to visit and we are going to be very busy. Hopefully we have a lot of really good visits this week.

Love you guys,

Elder Britt

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