Hey Fam! (3.5.12)

So, this will probably be a quick one but I have amazing news. All of the people that have been baptized while I have been here in Independencia, were at church yesterday! I was filled with soooo much joy to see that. We are also teaching an 11 year old kid that is awesome! He has already read to 2 Nephi 17 and to improve his handwriting, he wrote the whole first chapter of the Book of Mormon! He went to church yesterday and is really excited to get baptized. His name is Francisco and he is the son of another investigator that unfortunately cant get baptized yet because she needs to get married before she can. We are also working on some reactivating. One is a matrimony that has been sealed in the temple and have four children. They will be a little difficult but we are working on it because the two youngest kids need to get baptized and hopefully the father can baptize them. Also, the old Elders qourum President went inactive so we are helping him go back to church.

I dont know if I have said this at anytime, but the Bishop here in my ward is amazing! His name is Bishop Briones and he had been a counciler before in the stake presidency as well as a bishop in another ward. He gets things done! He always is animated but down to business in church. A lot of thanks to what he has done, the ward that I am in is the strongest in the stake and has had some of the most baptisms from any ward in the stake as well in the past few months. He loves the mission work. He interviews our investigators and everything to help them but I think the best thing that he has done for us is keep all the converts really active and they each have assignemnts that they can handle.

I love yall!
Elder Gregory