Feb 2, 2011

oh and we have been enjoying some good Tongan food lately from sister L-- she loves to cook.

LOL signs of spring? HECK NO! It was 11 degrees yesterday and a wind chill of -5, we were outside helping the sisters move. Now I know why you dont like it when i wear shorts in the cold. Yes definitely drop something by the mission home for me, I would love that. This past week was good except I have been sick. Our district set a goal for baptisms for feb and the goal is 21 between 3 companionships. OUr companionship goal when prayed about is 9. I was wondering for a second if we really heard the Lord say 9 because that number is half of the zone goal and our district goal is higher than the zone goal, but yep it was 9 so we r putting our nose to the grind stone. Sunday was interesting! We picked up one of our investigators for church and about 2 min before church started Hermano M-- (WML) calls us and says he is sick so Elder F-- and I needed to teach gospel principles. Only one of our inv's showed up to church so we were a little bummed about that but hey what can ya do. ANyways after sacrament meeting we went into the Branch Pres. office to be in the circle when I-- recieved the priesthood. When Pres H-- asked who he wanted to do it, he turned and pointed to me, so I confired the priesthood on I--. I also gave him his priesthood lineage so if you could email another one dad that would be great. We then ran to gospel principles to teach, and the  lesson was oh so conviently on baptism. We taught the lesson and tried to follow the spirit and at the end our inv E-- began to cry. We then after GP had to run because it was the 5th sunday and Elder F-- and I were teaching the youth on how to prepare for missions. It went really good, although when we asked each boy and girl where they want to go on a mission nobody said South Salt Lake ... interesting. We heard that 3 missionaries have been killed this past week in other countries so that put a damper on things but the work is still moving along. We have people on date for baptism every sunday this month. J--- is getting baptized this sunday so we are all really excited. We made mormon.org profiles so if u get time check mine out! My MTC teachers are up there too. We had a really cool visa waiter Elder A-- but he got his visa and left this morning for Torreon Mexico. Other than that nothing too exciting.  Love you all and I hope to have pics of the baptism next week. Did you get the pics on the email I sent of C-- I-- and A-- baptism? Stay strong and lean on the lord.