November 1, 2010
in the week we are teaching this girl named carina, she is 23 and has a 4 year old daughter and lives with some inactive recent converts. we are helping the family come back to church and carina to accept the gospel and come to church and be baptized on the twentieth of this month. she is really nice and good to teach. but she has about a 55 year old boyfriend that she just moved out from living with, and he has been coming over to see and talk to her and to eat and stuff. and he is a totall jerk and sad sad man. i have no idea how he got carina, she is pretty cute (and has all of her teeth), and this guy is UGLY!!! he has like black hands from smoking so much and woking on cars and pretty sure just not taking a shower in the last about five or six months. he has holes all in his pants, shoe lace for a belt and a shirt that has one button and has stains from everything on it, nasty greasy hair that is falling out and is almost balled and missing teeth. but the other day i had been praying alot for carina and what to study in the morning in my personal study and i first went to preach my gospel but didnt find much. her questions are about baptism and the rusurrection and spririt world stuff. and after not finding anything in pmg i went to the book of mormon and was flipping through the pages and stopped accidently on 2 nefi 9 and just started to read a little and the first three verses i read were i think 21-24. and just like talks about all of her questions and was amazing. really guided well. and i told my comp and we went straight there first thing in the morning so we could teach and hopefully not have the boyfriend show up. so we went and i shared it and shared my testimony and she then said, ¨so in order to enter the kingdom of god, i need to be baptized..., and i can follow the example of jesus and be resurrected?¨ YES YES YES we said so happy and we went into explain more about it and then HE walked in puffing his is cigarret and just acted like he owned the place and ruined the spirit and becasue of him sunday she could not come to church and was just satan in the form of a man i swear. he has the worst arguements ever and i have dropped so much cane of him in scripture and in testimony and still he is so dumb!!!
we have this other investigator family that we found, they are awesome!!! and there are about 20 of them that live in the same house well different houses all conected to the dad/grandpa. and all the nieces and nephews come running when we go over and they sit and listen and love us. we are really working on the grandpa he is the clave to everything. if we can get him to church and baptized then everyone will follow and they will all do the same. and we had a great lesson with him saturday night and he said he would get baptized if it is true and wants to come to church and get to know it. so we will see, i was super excited. but on sunday he never showed up and so that was a bummer but it was cause his daughter had a baby so he had to go and stuff. so it is understandable i guess. but he is a good guy we just need to find him more and help him a liffle more. and get him to church. but he is good and we are really trying to help him alot.
i loved your email though dad thanks alot for that. you always have good advice and know what to say. it was a great email and i am really excited for this patient of yours and the things that could come with her. wish i was there secretly to teach her and to help her out and stuff with you and lisa. i wish she was my investigator. she sounds like she is golden now and ready to really learn and stuff. i cant wait to hear what comes of it all and stuff. remember to be a better listener then talker that is the important part and to ask inspired questions... questions that come from the soul, that she will answer and teach herself. but i know you two will do great with it and i am really excited to hear all about it.
this month of october also we put the highest goal in consejo at the beginning of the month and we got our goal.we did not win the cup, but we broke the record of highest goal set and met in a consejo by a zone!!! so that is cool. it was 14, and we got it. but tomorrow we go to mendoza again to have consejo and we will put an even higher goal, and shock everyone. we are thinking between 18 and 24 is what we will put. and with our plans that we have, we think we will meet it and break it big time and break the record in the mission of most baptisms in a zone in a month. we are pushing to break 30 or 40 in november. it will be a month of monso milagros!!! i am super excited to see what happens. keep us in your prayers and pray for us to have more faith and the faith to have miracles in our companionship and in our zone.
dad i strongly appreciate your advice and your help on everything. i have learned to rely on the lord and his will more then i ever have in my life and i cant go away from that now. i dont even want to think about coming home. it scares me to death and gives me sick feelings. so for right now thanks for all of your help and advice but for now it is enough and all i need. i just want to be focussed on the work and not have coming home early or even the thought of coming home come in my mind. but i will have you know those trips sound super fun and i am super excited. the lake powell one if i come home the time i would be assigned would not be till about sept. 28 so i will miss out on the lake powell trip most likely on the new houseboat. but everything sounds great and i would love it all, sounds like a blast!!! and the ideas and help you have for school and stuff sound really good and would be greatly appreciated!!! i love you all so much and am so happy to have you in my life and all mean so much to me and all you do for me. the prayers are heard and felt. keep up the faith and good work.
con amor
elder bigelow
tu favorito argentino
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