January 17, 2011

Monday-Thursday we just did work and visited lots of our less-active members. I can't remember if anything cool happened but I'm sure something did. On Thursday night I started an exchange with Elder Doyle. He came into our spanish pool for Friday, starting at Thursday follow-up. So that went well, we taught a couple of less-active families and I got to talk to Elder Doyle so that was fun. He's really cool. And It turns out that he sold Security Systems with Siron and he knows Jared and Paul. He met Jared when he was selling in California. Elder Doyle is an awesome missionary and we've become good friends in the past couple of weeks. He's 23 and he and I both came to New York at the same time but we have never served around eachother until now. Anyway, so it was a good exchange.
Then on Saturday morning we went to the Falcon's home for lunch/breakfast at 11:00 sister Falcon is from Northern Chile and her husband is from Peru. She made us empenadas and pancakes. It was nice. Also on Saturday the English ward had an activity that the Relief Scociety pres. put on. They had a lunch for all of the investigators and all the missionaries and some members were invited. We stopped in to say hi to Bob Tut. He is doing great. The elders visited him the other day and he wanted to be be baptized that day, but they told him he has to learn some more first and they set a Bap. date for the 30th. I talked to him about when I talked to him on the street during the "street sweep". I had tried to talk to him in spanish but didn't know what I was saying and told me he didn't speak spanish. It was fun to talk to him at the party. It will really cool to see him baptized. He's the coolest Egyptian soon to be mormon in the whole world.
Sunday was a really great day. We normally have about 80 people at church on Sundays. But almost every less-active family that we work with came to church! Elder Gamez and I counted the people and there were 124! We felt like we had really accomplished something amazing, with the help of the Lord. It was awesome! And the Ramos family from Little Neck came to our branch this week and they said they are going to start coming every week because they can't go to Little Neck at 9 so they will come to Flushing at 1:00. After Church we went over to the familia Carpintero for a family home evening. It was really nice and they had invited a less-active family as well. It was great. We talked about the stripling warriors. Then we had some hot chocolate and some taquitos.
Today we are going to go to the Queens Center mall. and we are going to go teach 2 less-active families later tonight.