Monday, October 29, 2012

Baptism that fell out of the sky; Tons of help from recent converts

 Whats up people?  How are all y'all??  How is school/work/everythingelse coming along??   Its pretty good down here in the south. Im really glad that its P-day today because I am super tired.  I don't know why, I haven't done anything exhausting recently, but I just feel dead.  It's already been 4 weeks into this transfer which is crazy surprising.  This transfer feels like it has gone a toooon faster than my first one, but then again I still have a couple of weeks left.  But I'm definitely enjoying it here.  Vera Cruz is just a really cool to serve.  The city is really peaceful and the members in our brand new branch always want to help out with the work and have it continue to grow.  Its also really nice because we legitimately have the best house in the mission that includes a sofa, big porch with washing machine and dryer for our clothes, nice kitchen, and a massive study room, not to mention the only house with a heater/air conditioner.  Haha I kinda wish that I didn't get this apartment first because I don't fully appreciate it yet and now I'm sure my next one will be a down grade :P.  
     But anyways, we had another good week of work.  The coolest thing was when we were walking down the street and then a lady started yelling to us from here house.  She was like `Hey are you the mormons?  yes? Come inside come inside!` It turns out that her 11 year old son named Douglas was baptized a couple of years ago.  They werent able to go to church very often while it was only in Santa Cruz but they heard that there was a branch here now and wanted to start going again.  The mom (named Luani or something spelled similar to that) wasn't baptized at the time as Douglas was because she was living with someone, but now they are separated and she told us that she wants to be baptized!  Haha it was soo cool!  If everything works out she will get baptized on the 10th along with Helena and hopefully Terezina.  Haha it seemed like a baptism that just fell out of the sky ;)  But we've been getting some new investigators with a ton of help from our recent converts.  Renan, a young man that was baptized last transfer, just called us up one day and said he wanted to go on visits with us to some of our investigators, and also he introduced us to some of his neighbors that he wants to teach.  Maicon, who is 17 and now preparing for his own mission has also been going with us to visit Terezina and is becoming friends with her and her daughter, and Jaci basically knows all of Vera Cruz and is giving us a lot of referrals.  There help is really helpful and encouraging and its making a big difference.
     We also had the awesome privilege of having Presidente Wright (Mission pres) joining for our district meeting.  It was really cool to see him and Sister Wright and talk a little bit.  He interviewed us all and gave little bits of advice to help us.  They are both really cool leaders and are really good at supporting and helping each and every missionary.  Well I think that about sums everything up.  Im doing fine and it sounds like you all are too.  Thanks for everything!!]
From the goodest guy
Elder Gee

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