Very Wet

This was an ok week. We had a good teaching week and lots of time to find. That made things a little interesting for us.

First of all, Anafe is doing great. She will be baptized on Sunday. We are very excited for her because she was so ready. We have gone through the commandments with her very quick and she readily accepted all of them. She is so great. We are also expecting a interview this Sunday with Leonida Droa. She is such a wonderful woman. She readily accepts everything and is very excited for her baptism. We are getting excited for that. We also got Jona to church this week!!! We were excited about her coming because we wondered if she would because her siblings told us that she was in Bago and was coming back on Sunday. We stopped by her house just in case to invite her to church and she came!!! She doesn't have a baptismal date yet because we are waiting for her to be married first. That is a big step for her to prepare for baptism. We are teaching a boy named Earljohn. He is doing alright just having a hard time getting him to church because he is so busy!!! It is weird that kids can get so busy that they don't have time for anything else! We are working with him and he has a desire to be baptized but church is keeping him from baptism. We gave him a date for Aug. 10 for his baptism. We are also teaching Bella Consulta. She is a long time former investigator. She is very receptive and wants to follow Christ. We gave her a baptismal date for Aug 24 because she wants it close to her birthday, Aug 25. Sister Teruel is doing good as well. Still waiting for her to process her marriage papers. They are planning on doing it this week so we will see how that goes.

I just got to tell you it has rained all week!!! I am very wet! We had a typhoon pass through this week which just brought a lot of rain and they say that today or tomorrow another one is going to come through. It makes my area very muddy. My area is very city making things very hot when the sun comes out. Lots of the area is just dirt roads so it is dirty. There is a lot of big houses and businesses in our area. The big houses are hard to get into if there is no referral given so we are trying to talk to them when they are out of their houses but that is hard because they usually aren't. It is an interesting area and is going to be a challenge but it is good. We walk a lot in circles in our area but it is good.

Sorry still getting to know the area. I will try to write more next week.

Love you,

Elder Nielsen