la semana pasada- 2/7/11

This last week was good. Well, its always good! But, we were fortunate to find some new investigators. I kept in the house monday night to keep from the sun but was working for the rest of the week. My face is doing a whole lot better and doesnt hurt at all so everything is good there!

We are still working with Luis a lot so that he can get permission from his mom to be baptized. Now, his twelve year old sister is listening and she even went to church with Luis yesterday. Luis is amazing. He is better than some members with keeping commitments and even knowledge of the gospel sometimes! Speaking of members, the two councilers to the bishop were released yesterday and two more called. I think its a great change because the young men need a solid young men´s president (the one now doesnt even go to church!) and one of the councilers that were released will likely be called to that. The youth really need great leaders and it makes me grateful for the amazing ones that I had growing up. It makes such a huge difference!

I think I wrote something a few weeks back about how hard it is to drop investigators that wont keep their commitments. We had to do it again this week and it really feels like a dagger through the heart. Im glad my companion is brutally honest most of the time because he knows when and when not to drop investigators. He is a lot better than me in that area. If it was just up to me without council from my companion and leaders in the mission, I would keep them around and try to help them over and over. But, we cant do that because there really are other people that the Lord has prepared that are willing to keep their commitments that we have to use our time to find and help.

Something funny that Ill end the email with is something that happend a few days ago. We were walking down a street and to our left, there was a mom with her 2 +/- year old son that came out the front door to be with her. She was cleaning and she looked back at him and started freaking out! She started yelling, ¨NOOOOOOOOOO!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!!!¨ She hit her son and he started to cry too. Elder Gil and I were a few steps away from the house by then but we stopped and looked at each other. We were thinking that he ate something that was poisonous or a cleaning product of something. The lady got up on the fence and started yelling,¨ HELP ME!!!!¨ It really was like the second coming! She was yelling at the top of her lungs and the neigbors started to come out. We sprinted back and asked what was wrong. She told us crying, ¨THE KEYS ARE INSIDE THE HOUSE AND IM LOCKED OUT!!!!¨ The boy had closed the door on the way out to be with his mom. Elder Gil and I looked at each other and laughed. Elder Gil climbed on top of the roof and went around the back to enter the back door and unlock it from inside. She kept crying even after and Elder Gil and I just left after and we started cracking up!

Thats about it for the week. Love yall and chao!

Elder Gregory