A Very Good Week

This was a very good week. On Tuesday we committed two of our investigators to Baptism! We committed them for the 14th of Feb., we might have to push it back to the 21st because we still have a lot to teach them. His family in Guatemala are members, and his son has decided to serve a mission. So now he is starting to turn his life around. He used to be a successful businessman, but started drinking and his life kind of fell apart. But the Savior is helping him put it back together. He is awesome and loves to read the Book of Mormon. His cousin is also a great person, she has a less-active member friend who started coming back and now they both come together.

We almost committed the another family to baptism as well. They are almost ready. they just need to get to church. The dad is pretty much ready but the mom still isn't sure if she needs to be baptized again. she was baptized in the Pentecostal church about 10 years ago. But we have another family we have been teaching and they came to church this week and stayed for the whole 3 hours.

The fact that everything is in English and the Translation equipment doesn't work half the time makes it really hard for the Spanish people. The equipment wasn't working so i just sat behind all of the Spanish people and talked loud enough for them to hear. I think the english members get annoyed too, just from the noise of two people talking. It's rough, but we are supposed to be getting new translation equipment soon. And if we can get a few more active Spanish members we will be able to start a Spanish branch.

I got your valentines package in the mail on Friday, I believe. Thank you so much, the little card was super funny ( good work Jennie). Elmo woke everyone up last night when i rolled over on top of him, ha ha ha.

Everything is going good. Its been pretty stinkin cold the last week or so. And we were supposed to get some snow, but we didn't. supposedly we are going to be a lot on Wednesday.

I was talking like Donald Duck to the other missionaries and they told some of the members that I can talk like Pato Donald, so that's been great. Everyone always asks me to do it now. But, what can i say...who am i to deny them my talents? ha ha no, but it's funny.

Missionary work is super, super tiring. I am dead every night, but I usually feel pretty good in the morning.

I'm having lots of fun, learning a lot, and working hard.

Life in Riverhead - at the end of Long Island. Living in a house with a river in the back yard! The sunset photo is off our back porch.

It was a good week. We had a lot of people to teach and we found a few new people as well. My favorite part of the week was probably one of the lessons we taught to a family. We taught them the the first half of the 1st lesson then we watch "The Restoration" on their computer. It was just cool as I was sitting behind all of them while the mom, dad, and 3 kids were sitting on the floor looking up at the computer and watching the story of Joseph Smith. It was a really awesome lesson and I feel like this family will progress to baptism.

Another fun lesson we taught this week was in someones car. We were trying to meet up with a media referal in East Hampton, which is about an hour drive from our home. We met him at the train station and we just hopped into his little hispanic truck and taught him the restoration. It would have been really funny to see. we were really smashed in there and i was pretty much sitting on his lap.

On sunday I translated sacrament meeting, well I did my best, and for our combined priesthood/relief society meeting. I'm pretty pooped by the end of the meetings and my head hurts just from all of the thinking i have to do, and listening. But its been fine.

We live in a little house in Riverhead with 6 Elders. I sent some pics from when i left Patchogue and a couple from a sunset in my new backyard. This morning we went out to the Light house at the end of Long Island and we took some pictures there as well.

I'm having a great time and all of my Pad-mates are awesome. Elder Paulson and Cotrell both went to AF and we have a lot of fun together.