February 16, 2015

Unfortunately, the free marriage promotion doesn't go into effect until March 27th, which means that those who use the service are not married until this date. That makes many of the baptisms we had planned fall through. But after March they can get baptized (they still want to, they will just have to wait.) So the Paz Martinez family cannot get baptized. :( Also, the investigator that our mission leader forgot to pick up (Diana) has stopped talking to us, and her neighbour tells us she is not home when we can see that she is in the house--wierd, but apparently neighbours sometimes decide to live in each others houses here in order to sell things like churros and tortillas. Fortunately, Evalynn has continued to listen to us and is super excited about her baptism saturday. :)

We had a great wierd experience; we contacted our taxi driver Saturday night, gave him the plan of salvation pamphlet, and invited him to church. The next day he arrived at the chapel at 8:00 sharp, and proceeded to tell how he ended up there to a couple of the members (the members here are really great, they talk to each other and help out people who are new a lot). He told the member he drove angels home last night, they gave him the pamphlet and he felt really blessed, so he came. He arrived at his house at around 1 o clock in the morning, and WOKE UP HIS CHILDREN SO THAT THEY COULD READ THE PAMPHLET TOGETHER. His wife died young, 6 months ago due to disease. Anyway, he was there in the chapel at 8:00. The meeting started between 9:00-9:15. He loved all three hours, that the young men shared messages about obedience in sacrament meeting, that someone explained about adam and eve (gospel doctrines) and in priesthood, he introduced himself, bore testimony of the things that he has heard in the church so far, and asked if he could come back next week and bring his kids. We are going to visit him Tuesday to share a message. Pretty excited.

We keep getting more less actives to come. One family that we have been visiting for a month finally came! That means we can start teaching the 8 year old so that she can start preparing to get baptized.

I am not sending pictures not because I do not have a cord, but because the computers here have viruses that delete content on memories when connected to the computer. If I try to send you something, not only will it not arrive, I will not have it either, and my memory card will be unusable. I am afraid you will have to wait for pictures until I find a safer computer location to send from. Elder Uribe (one of the other elders here) lost 300 photos when he tried to send one to his mom, and had to buy a new memory card. I think it better to wait.

Everyone loves my Balloon Elders. But elephants are a favorite of many also. Princesses they like, but they take a ton of balloons, so better that I do them little.

The singing thing happened in my last area, but right now one of the president´s assistants is going to have us 4 missionaries sing in activities. We do not know details until next Sunday.

I do not have anything else to report unfortunately.
Love you!

Saludos, Amor, y Todo que puedo ofrecer a tí,
Salutations, Love, and All that I have to offer you,
Elder Scott