Well I just keep coming with problems I might have when I come home. I might have overcome the addiction to ice cream and nutella, but new ones begin. They include Oreo's, which taste really good right now. They also have a lot of Fanta and Coke here that everybody gives you in their homes. We will go visit a home to give a lesson and they just end up feeding us. There is a recent convert named Maryenny and she lives with her mom and some of the family. But every time we visit, her mom likes to cook for us and it tastes good. She´ll sometimes see us passing by and tell us to come in and eat.
I might also good also spotting drunk people from far away. They are really funny people, but not good to teach. Most of them just really want to shake your hand. Mom, you probably did not want to know that though.
Rain in Utah is also really wimpy. It hasn't rained very much yet, but when it rains it comes like you wouldn't believe. A lot harder even than Florida.
I only went on two exchanges, which is normal for me. The first was with some of the AP’s. So I got to go their area, which was not my favorite. The people there were not as nice and wouldn't just talk with you. And when we would go to lessons, I was lost, since the companion told me nothing about the people. So I ended just sitting there trying to understand what they were saying. But there was something good things that came from this. I got McDonald again for lunch which still tastes really good and the best part was a warm shower that was pressurized. The best shower I have had in the mission.
I really enjoyed the second exchange because I was kind of let off my leash and I got to stay in my area and Elder Bran came here. It was good to kind be in charge to decide what needed to be done. I felt that I learned a lot from this, more than exchanges with the older missionaries. We were pretty much running around from house to house, but I am still really bad at talking to people on the street. With Elder Bran I think I learned a bit more about how to better teach. He would use a lot of examples to help investigators understand, so that is one thing to work on in addition to asking questions.
Sunday was quite the interesting day. Before church, we go around and visit everyone we invited to church, mostly our investigators. And none them could come because they were all sick or had to take some who was sick to the hospital. So we went to church expecting to have no investigators. When we got there, a less active convert that we taught during the week decided to come to church for the first time in like a year, because we taught her. And with her, she brought her husband who is not a member and their daughter. And we hope to baptize the husband this month. The people we baptized last week also brought one of the fathers and we have started teaching him and he will get baptized eventually. We have quite a few investigators, we just need them to come to church since that is the big requirement for baptism and giving them a baptismal date here in the mission. The Lord truly blessed us by sending us investigators to church.
I have really been able to see how much the Lord is blessing us while we do His work. I have so much love for these people and desire so much to see start making the steps to eternal life starting with the covenant of baptism.
Thanks for the support and all you have done for me in my life. I don’t think I ever really appreciated how well you raised me while growing up to be pretty independent or being level headed most of the time. Thanks for everything and the weekly jokes.
Elder Ferrin
P.S. If you haven´t sent a package, could you also put in sheet music? I don´t really care what it is. On p-days I play the piano a lot and I am kind of tired of just the hymn book.
