This week was sooo much better.
We've found two families who are very interested, and are keeping commitments. We've been thrilled to teach them, and are hoping they'll come to church sometime soon. The gentleman who we were helping to stop smoking has been dropped. He's kind of an eternal investigator, and he'd been dishonest about the program. Hermana Padilla was heartbroken; because we'd been planning to get him a baptismal date by the time the week was out. I felt really bad too. We were sure the program was working.
That said, we're helping to teach people a lot of English. It's lots of fun, and if enough people get interested, we hope to start classes up at the church building.
We're having fun with our members. We got a case study last week with a lot of "little things" we can do to boost member activity. We're seeing results, and hope that things in the branch pick up soon!
We are, to our great surprise, teaching two Jehovah’s Witnesses right now. (They're very strong in the area, and we often bump into each other tracting.) We're hoping to get them interested in the idea of modern revelation, and get them both to come to church.
I received a letter From Erika. She's thinking of putting in her papers for a mission. I say she should go for it!!!
We had to take Harvey car of DOOM in for an oil change this week. it was a long bit of paperwork, and a long time sitting in the waiting room.
Elder Nielson broke his pinky playing soccer this week. No big deal, right? Guess not. He went in for surgery Tuesday and is now on Vicadin. I don't know WHY there were so many hullabaloos over a broken finger (I've never seen worse than a full-hand cast) but they put pins in and everything. I hope to figure out why soon, because I almost think his doctor is over reacting.
Hope all is well on the home front. Love and miss you all. Sorry this isn't longer, but I'm feeling rather ditzy this afternoon.
Sincerely, Hermana Maren Jones
