Hola familia y amigos!
Well this week was pretty good, but there has been so much rain and mud in my area, and every pair of my shoes, including the Eccos, have holes in them. There are only two shoes that don’t, one of the Eccos and one of my old marching shoes, but other than that they all have holes. On the Eccos the treading is coming off and the water leaks through, but my marching shoes are done for, they have holes in the bottom that go through the soles and to my socks, and at the end of the day my socks may have holes, depending. So I bought some new shoes today and hopefully they can last me the rest of my mission.
It’s been pretty fun this week, everything went pretty well. We had a zone conference with Pres. Veirs which went really well. It was basically the same stuff that he had said to us before, but apparently it hasn’t stuck with a lot of the missionaries in the mission, but it was cool to see him, as always. Well this week we have tried to get the members more active in helping us, and the high counselor in charge of our ward has been putting everything in high gear to get inactives and to get people to go on exchanges with us, so now we should be getting more support from the ward! We had a very successful missionary correlation meeting with the presidents of the auxiliary groups so we are looking forward to this new change.
This week we have been working in this part of our area that is a little out in the middle of nowhere, but we found an amazing family out there. They aren’t married (like the majority of the people in this country) but they read the BoM and more. We taught them about baptism and were finishing the lesson, (we had left them 2 Nephi 31 to read) and we were talking to the wife while the husband read the entire chapter and was already reading in ch 32! It was incredible, so we left him some more to read and they went to church this Sunday and really enjoyed it, even though elders quorum was a mess. The wife told us that she had been praying that her husband would start reading the scriptures and get interested in a religion and we showed up and now they are super excited about the church. We are hopeful that they can get baptized in the future! This coming weekend we have 2 baptisms planned, for Gina, who is amazing, and for Manuel's grandson, Jose. Everything has been great with them both and we are hoping to be able to keep them active. The members have been supporting them a lot, which is great. We have been working hard and finding new people, we just hope to be able to get people that will progress and be baptized soon enough. Things have been great here in this area. The members have noticed that I won’t be here for Christmas, which stinks a bit, but I’ll deal with it.
Thanks everyone for all the help and for the support! I would like more letters from friends, but I do understand that a lot of people have college & other things. I hope everyone has a great week!
Elder Neher
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