I received the suitcase. The office elder, Elder Parent, who is a senior elder, had to come to my area to drop off his car to be fixed so he brought it with him. Pretty cool, I got the camera and all the snacks and a really nice letter from Terry that was so nice of her. Make sure she knows I say thanks a bunch and I understand why she couldn't see me, those tour trips must keep them on a tight schedule. I really do love all the things you sent though, I am so lucky to have a mom like you. I love the ASU jersey too. Thanks a ton, it is great.
Here is a tiny bit about our investigators,
So with the family Gomez we were really hoping to get everything worked out last week with their marriage and get them to the temple dedication this coming Saturday but it turns out it is a lot more difficult than we thought it would be. We're afraid they will not be able to do the dedication thing. Also the dedication is only going to be through satellite in the district building here in Cuilapa. so it is like 15 mins from our area. but yeah they will not be able to go. but they are still really motivated about following all the things and doing all they need to do so that they can have the chance to prepare to go to the temple in the future, and with that comes the baptism. so it is cool.
With Oscar, he is moving along really really well but we are starting to see he is a little nervous about a couple things and so hopefully all will be ok with him, but we still have the fecha with him for this Saturday. hopefully we can get him baptized so that he can come to the dedication as well. They say that if someone goes to the dedication, the great chance of them remaining active is a lot higher. So we are really trying to keep him moving along and happy and it is working well. We just recently gave him homework in 2 nephi chapter 9 which talks about our purpose and what God really does expect from us. Hopefully it goes well and we can have a powerful lesson this Tuesday.
With Brenda, she is really happy to be baptized and really stoked for all of the things and blessings that are in store for her, but she doesn't want to be baptized this Saturday. she wants to wait until the 24th of December and be baptized that day. She says she feels like it is her special day that day so we are going to work on preparing her for that day. We just found out recently that her brother died about 5 years ago and we were just talking about all that kind of stuff, and we are so dumb, we never taught her the plan of salvation. So we taught her just a really really tiny bit of the lesson and the Spirit was really strong there. She is still a little confused about what is going to happen and how we know what we know but she likes it and told us she would pray about it to know if it is true.
Those are still our most progressing investigators, we're trying really hard every day to find more and more people to teach. I think we should have a lot of success this week, in finding some new ones and hopefully we can see some miracles come our way. I am really loving my time here mom, and I'm so thankful that I can be here and work hard and be obedient. I'm glad that the Lord trusts young people like us. It is so true the saying, "with great power comes great responsibility and with that responsibility forms great men", I'm not sure if that is how it actually goes but that's how I see it. Anyway, I love you all so much and I miss you a ton. Thanks for all you do for me and always showing me your love every week. I have the best parents ever. les amo mucho. alrighty then I'll talk to you later.
love elder daniel shipley
PS The Christmas conference I still don't know when it will be and I can't wait to talk to you guys again, seems like yesterday we talked, haha, the time passes slow during the time, but then when the moment comes and we look back on what we have accomplished, we really can see how fast the time has gone by. another quote from me, wow I'm on a role. I should be a quote writer. haha, alright bye now.
Elder Shipley
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