Doughnuts for EVERYONE

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!

     This week has been good!  The week went by really fast.  I don’t know why but it seemed even faster than the last week. 

     We did had a mini divisions on Saturday night to be able to help commit some of the investigators in the area to go to church. I went with Elder Fiabane and we went to the investigators while Elder Smith went with Elder Ratliff and Elder Walker to wait in the terminal for an Elder to arrive. 

     Did you award the winner of your district their doughnuts?
     Sort of, haha I ended up making a ton of doughnuts and brought them to the district meeting and I gave them two options.  I told them that everyone had done very good in contacting a lot of people but we hadn’t tallied the results to see who was the actual winner.  So I said that we could tally the numbers and give the doughnuts to the winner or we could just share them all.  That was what we ended up doing. 

     Right now the investigator that is most progressing is named Gladys. She didn’t go to church this week though.  We were sad about that.  We haven’t found her yet so we don’t know why. The biggest obstacle for her though will be that she needs to get married.  We had her talk to her *husband* to work out a marriage date.  He said that they could go to the civil registry as soon as he gets a chance. I just hope that it is pretty soon!  I want to be here for the baptism. Haha  Once she gets married and goes to church a couple more times she will be ready for baptism. 

     We also have a couple named Dani and Vilma.  They are kind of progressing.  The problem is that Dani is married to another woman and has to divorce her before they can get married to be baptized. The good thing is that the divorce is almost complete he just needs to go to the judge and sign a paper but is a little lazy to go do it.  Or when he does go it ends up not working for one reason or another.

     I am in the office I do happen to know a little something about transfers., haha  We had to go to the office Sunday night to help the elders out because they were short on elders because they had to bring some hermanas to another pench because they were robbed.  So we had to go to the office to be with one of the elders who would have been left there without a comp if we didn’t come.  During that time we noted and saw a few things. haha  First of all we haven’t seen one of the assistants Elder Ortiz for a time and the Elder that Elder Smith and the others picked up on Saturday was with the other assistant and using the assistant’s phone.  So we figured out that he is the new assistant.  Then we wanted to know where the old one went.  That night when we called we asked about him to the secretaries and they said that he went to his house for family issues, and they confirmed that the other elder is the new assistant.  Also while we were in the office we happened to see the tablero (the list of the missionaries in their areas) and see it for a little bit so we know who is in our zone. haha.  I am staying with Elder Smith.  In the zone about half of the missionaries are changing. Now in my zone there will be four of us who all leave on the 17th of Dec. Me, Hna Medina, Hna Washburn, and Hna Gonzalez. I don’t know what they will do when we all leave. Haha  Also Elder Fiabane and Elder Ratliff are training their replacements so they are happy about that.  Elder Fiabane has been in the office for almost a whole year and is really excited to be able to get out.

     I love you guys and I have to go!  I will talk to you next week!

Elder Pickle and Elder Smith with their district of ALL Hermana's