Hello! okay, so I will try to do a little bit better with this email Mom, I know last weeks was kind of wimpy. Anyways, this week was pretty good. Yesterday was especially great because we had three of our recent converts be ordained to the aaronic preisthood! Lee, Sergio, and Jesus Zamora were all able to get the preisthood! Awesome! Sergio even blessed the bread in Sacrament meeting. We were pretty impressed because he got it perfectly right the first time. I am definitely starting to get close to the people here!
So this week here in El Paso it was a million degrees every day. Haha not really, but it did hit 110! Hot hot hot. It's really not too bad though. At least we have a car to get to where we need to go. Today its in the low 90's and it feels great! We were able to get a few new investigators this week as well. One of them is named Tobias and he is really cool. Last week after emails he just walked up to us in the library and asked "Hey aren't you guys the Mormons". Of course we said yes, and after some conversation, we invited him to come to church and listen to our message. He said he would call us and try to come. We didn't hear from him the rest of the week, so we kind of forgot about him. But then on sunday we walked into our sacrament meeting and there he was, wondering if he was in the right place until he saw us! He loved testimony meeting and afterwards asked us for a Book of Mormon. He is really interested and promised he would come back next week.
After church, our good friend Lee said he had something for us, so we went out to his car where he pulled out 4 dozen eggs from his chickens.(now completely rotten because they were in the super hot car all day) We felt really bad though, so we took them anyway. He is such a sweet guy! Very much a kind old Grandpa.
On a sadder note, one of the really less active members that we have been visiting named Alberto is in really bad shape. He is maybe in his 70's and has been away from the church for decades. He has three daughters in Arizona and Florida that are very active in the church though. Just a couple of days ago his family pulled him off of most of his medication so that he could pass away peacefully this week. We have given him many blessings, but please keep him in your prayers as well. We are also teaching his wife (a Jehovas Witness) and one of his caretakers. It is pretty sad to see him feeling so unfulfilled and regretful though.
Anyways, my companion, Elder Schnell, now only has two weeks left before he goes home to Oregon. I am a little sad that I will only be able to have one transfer with him. He is a really great guy. And once he leaves, I will have to show someone else around the area for a while!
So its nice to hear that you guys are doing well. Thank you for the talk quotes mom! We actually do get the Ensign every month, in English and Spanish. and we even get recordings of the talks to listen to in the car from a member in the ward. That is definitely one of my favorites. I also really enjoy The talk from Elder Neil L Anderson, and of course, the one from President Uchtdorf. I'm glad you liked my pictures too. Brian Allen (the guy in the tunnel pictures) really likes photography, so he took some of those for us for fun. He is a huge help to the missionaries here. Awesome guy.
Well sadly, I better go now, but I hope that this letter was a little bit better for you guys! I love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week! Dont have too much fun with all of your summer activities! Hasta la proxima semana!
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