As I recall, this is also a birthday week for my big sis Jaclyn and my "little" brother Daniel! Since I'm not in person to sing for you....
Do
we have a birthday here? Yes we have a Birthday here! Birthday where?
Birthday here! Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh Happy Birthday Happy Happy
Birthday Happy Birthday Happy Happy Day! :)
Haha, we're all getting old. I hope it goes well for ya'll!
So
this week I got to go down to the Ocala district and work with our new
district leader there. Trouble is, he's a Spanish missionary, so I had
absolutely no clue what was going on in any of the lessons that day.
(It's times like this that cause me to reflect back on the early
experiences of my mission getting the Spanish packet at the MTC and
wishing that it had worked out that way.) He did have an investigator
for me to interview for baptism and thankfully she had enough broken
English that we could work through the questions. I was able to excel
in the English class they had for their Spanish branch that night
though! The next day on the way home to Gainesville, we took a detour
and I interviewed another candidate in Chiefland who had finally
received parental permission to be baptized after several months of
begging and
pleading. Hopefully she'll be able to stay active with just the ward
support.
This week we found a very interesting new
investigator who had visited Salt Lake City about 10 years ago and
filled out a self referral card, but nothing ever came of it. As we
questioned further, she told us that she is a descendant of Phineas
Young (Brigham Young's brother) and had known there was a Mormon history
in her family, but she had no idea what that meant and wanted to learn
more. Wahoo! We can help with that! =D She's excited to read the
Book of Mormon and come to our Wednesday scripture study class and we
hope to see some rapid progress with her.
Other than that, it's been a quiet week. Lots of
heat, lots of sweat, lots of humidity, and endless slapping at the
mosquitos. I think my finger is mostly back to normal now. There's
just minimal stiffness left and it only gives a twinge of pain if I
squeeze or put pressure directly on the joint, so hopefully I'll be back
to full use in a few more weeks.
Love ya'll!
Elder M.
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