An Even Better Week

Well we thought that we did good last week with all the teachings but we did a lot better this week!!! We had 50 lessons taught to investigators, less active, and recent converts!!! This is huge for us. We are so busy everyday that we have to cancel some of our appointments, that we didn't set up, so that we can make it to others. We run on so little time yet we do so much. This week we had Ferly Dojoles. She is moving along very well. She is always excited to go to church so she will be baptized on Feb. 16. Then we got Edmon and Felix to church yesterday! They came to the special sacrament that we held in Punta Salong. That is good because we are really focusing on that area. If we can get 50 people to come consistently then we can turn them into a branch which means we will get 2 more missionaries in the area! It will be an exciting time because we can start to spread out. Right now we don't even touch 2/3 of the area that we are assigned too. They are progressing very good. Both are married so we won't have problems there. Sister Nigad came to church this week! It was exciting because she also brought her daughter. She is starting to progress and we are hoping for Feb. 23 for her. Then we taught the Babila family this week. The parents aren't members so we focused on them during part of a lesson. We talked about the kingdoms of glory and talked about families. They now realize why baptism is important. We commited them to be baptized on March 2. We were also able to contact some referrals. It was a very good week for us. On Thursday, I went on splits with the district leader, Elder Doverte. We worked in my area and I took him all over the place. We had little success at first but at the end, that was our best day. We had the highest number of teachings that I have ever had. We had 14 lessons in one day! That just shows how busy we are.

The weather here is very wet. It is either cloudy and usually rains or it is hot and humid. I really like it when it is cloudy and doesn't rain because then we don't sweat as much. As for bugs I have gotten use to them. There is a lot of mosquitoes and flies. Usually when we get home we have to kill some cockroaches and some spiders. The big ones are everywhere. You get use to killing them.

The work is great and we just keep going all the time. We do the best we can every week. We are always trying to improve. We like to focus on families that are part member families. That is where we get a lot of referrals and we are able to bring the whole family to Christ.

I love you.

Elder Nielsen