Great week in Vera Cruz; Spoke in church! Terzina moved... right next to a new member family

Hello there,  How is everybody?  Its been a pretty good week here in Vera Cruz. Its already become really hot down here and now I´ll spend an extra hour in the sun each day because of daylight savings. Its been hot enough for me to be actually enjoying the rain today :).  Hows the weather in Utah?  Oh I just heard that there is already snow,  crazy!!  Maybe I wont mind this heat as much after all ;)  How is everything else in Utah? Is there anything super exciting going on that I should hear about?   

     We have a couple of investigators that are really progressing quickly and they should get baptized soon.  One of them is a woman named Helena.  She is really sweet and always happy.  She has been going to church consistently for the last month or so and she is going to all the activities as well. She really wants to get baptized, but just wants to take it slowly and not be rushed. One of the problems is that she is terrified of water :(  But she really has a testimony knows she wants to follow this path, so we have a baptismal date set with her in 2 weeks.  At the beginning of the week we went to visit another one of our really good investigators, Terezina and her daughter who both want to get baptized as well.  When we knocked at there house a different person answered and told us that they had moved away!  We were super surprised and didn't have her number to contact her.  We were both really scared that we had lost her and wouldn't be able to teach them anymore.  Luckily for us, they happened to move right next to a recent convert and saw us as we went to visit them.  The move actually turned out to be a great thing because they have already became friends these members, and also they live closer to the church. Terezina is still doing great and is progressing. Her testimony is continually growing and she has already read over half of the Book of Mormon, but she seems to want to take her time before getting baptized  too. They have had a hard time coming to church because her daughter Diana is really pregnant and the baby could come at any moment.  They think that it will be a lot easier after the birth and it will also be easier because they live closer to the church now.

    

  Yesterday was a good day at church and we had a lot of people show up  including an investigator named Rodrigo which was a complete surprise.  We had been teaching him for a couple of weeks but he didn't seem to interested and never ended up keeping the commitments that we gave him.  We decided that we probably wouldn't visit him any more with his lack of progress but he surprised us by being there and told us that he really wants to keep teaching him and that he would come back next week!  Haha the sacrament meeting was interesting because I ended up having to give a talk.  The branch president asked me to give it right before the meeting started which kinda surprised me.  I've never been that great of a public speaker in English let alone in a different language so I was kinda worried about how it would turn out. Luckily for me it was just a 5 min talk so it wasn't too bad and I just talked a little bit about the principles of the gospel.  It still was kinda rough, filled with awkward silences as I tried to think of what to say and how to say it but it was a good learning experience.  I'm just glad that our branch is super cool and loving  so I wasn't embarrassed while I was giving the talk.

     So anyways, life is good! Thanks for the emails you guys always send. They are always awesome to read!  I love you all and am always praying for you... so do the same for me!  I cant wait to hear from you next week!  

Love

Elder Gee