Time Going By Fast

Times seems to go to fast. I was just thinking it was Wednesday this morning and then thought about it again to find out it was Monday in the next week. I don't know what is going on there.

I will be calling about 10:30 our time here about 8:30 your time if I am on the right daylights savings thing.

This week was pretty good. It rained a few times which was nice but very wet. At least it isn't as hot.

Albert had his interview and he passed but we went there last night and he feels like he doesn't know enough to be baptized. We hope to solve that one very quick so he will continue on May 4. He is very good just very stressed from work so he feels like he is getting enough knowledge. We aren't too worried about it. We think it will be an easy fix. Rica is doing very good as well. We are planning on getting her mom to sign tonight so we can have her baptism on May 10. She is loving the church and being with her new friends. We got a couple of lessons left to do with her but that shouldn't be to hard. I am looking forward to this one. Macmac is doing pretty well. He is reading and praying and has had some great experiences. He went to Pta. Taytay yesterday so he didn't come to church. He is just missing church. When he comes he will be ready for baptism. Irish is doing ok. She was too shy to come to church yesterday. She is in the same boat. We feel there is a greater problem with her as well so we are working on that. She is just like the iceburg analogy in chapter 10 of Preach My Gospel. We had 3 new investigators come to church this week. One was a former investigator that came up to us and asked to come to church with us. His name is Roy. He really wants to learn. We hope to talk to his mother some time to get permission to teach him. One of the recent converts in the ward brought her siblings to church yesterday. She told us she wants us to teach them. They are very receptive and have been taught a little before. We gave them a baptismal date for May 17. We just need to talk to their older sister for permission to baptize them.

One thing that came to mind this week was if things aren't going right, are we focusing on the Lord? Sometimes we have hard times just like Job for testing us to make us better and then there are times when we aren't doing His will. We must always evaluate this question to know where we sit and who we follow.

Sincerely,
Elder Nielsen