What are you doing for Thanksgiving?
Hmm...that's a good question, currently we have plans to teach a couple lessons on thanksgiving, but we currently don't have a dinner (Maybe we'll have to drop a couple of hints with the members or something...)
How was zone conference? Mom noticed a note from sister Cotterell on Missionary Mom's that you had a zone conference this week.
We had a zone conference about a week and a half ago, I think I said a little bit about that last week, but this week (yesterday, which is why I didn't write yesterday) we did have a mission tour, where elder packer from the quorum ofthe 70 came and talked to us. It was really great, we talked a lot about learning how to recognize the promptings of the spirit. Also presiden't cotterral has been telling us recently that he has a goal for each companionship to baptize at least one person every week, so they talked a lot about that and how we can accomplish that. It was quite a day too. because we had to drive to kinson, which took about 3 hrs. too get there, so we had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to get ready and be there on time.
So this last week, it seems like our area has just been exploading with potential.
We have been teaching the family, who I have told you about in my past emails. After teaching them this last thurs they told us about a family that they knew that might have interest in learning about the gospel, so we wen't over and visited the family right at the end of the lesson. the name of the Family is and there are 5 children with the mom and dad. this family had been taught by the missionaries before, but I think that his family has been prepared and it looks like they are going to progress this time. We invited them to an activity that we had on thursday as well as church which they came to both.
We've also been teaching someone named who is the boyfriend of one of the members. We didn't get to teach him this week, because he was busy, but he came to church this week as well as the activity on saturday.
Another potential investigator that we taught about a month and a half ago, came to church on sunday also. This person, Maria de Jesus, is also a friend of the Rosas (in fact she lives about 3 houses down from them) and she seemes like she has interest, we just havn't been able to get in contact with her for quite some time, but we set up an appointment to visit her this thursday, and she also told us that she wants to come to church from here on out.
I Mentioned earlier that we had an activity in the church, we had a thanksgiving dinner. The food was really quite good.... But I did think it was kind of funny when at the end of the table there was a pile of Tortillas...so we ate a normal Turky thanksgiving dinner with tortillas.
I talked earlier about how we have found several new people to teach, and there were a lot of people that came to church. During all the time that I've been in Fayetville and rayeford we've only gotten at most about 1 person to come to church, in fact in Fayetville, nobody came. But this week was crazy. <13 investigators at church> Sunday school was quite fun to teach, we had about 11 of us crammed into probably the smallest room in the church.
So, I've got some good news. I can finally roll my R's.
I did recieve the package you send me of treats as well as the camera battery. Muchisimas Gracias!
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