...Rain, Sickness, Blessings

Family,

Things are good in the work of the Lord. The work is moving along quite nicely and as a zone we have stepped it up in a lot of aspects. The next month we are going to be studying as a mission chapter 4 of Preach My Gospel which is about Recognizing the Spirit so it should be a good month.

The last week was full of ups and downs. There are always more ups than downs the so its all good.

The downs:
In Queretaro it rained 4 straight days this week without stopping. It was much needed here, but it did a lot of dammage. Our street was full of water so we would start the day of sludging through the gross rain water every morning trying to jump the puddles (ponds) and try to stay dry. The members were awesome though after recognizing that we would go out in the same wet jackets every morning they lent us sweatshirts and flannel shirts and one day this week I even wore a Jean Jacket.

My comp. was sick for like 3 days. We had to go get him some antibiotoics in the farmacias and he`s still takin them. He got a temperature really bad one of the nights and I got to give him a blessing. He`s doing a lot better, but he`s upset because after the temperature he got 3 huge cold sores on his lips. He is hoping that they go away before he goes home in 2 weeks. His girlfriend is waitin for him so he is prayin really hard haha.

I got sick a little bit, but not nearly as bad as my comp. I just had a stuffed up nose and I`d wake up in the middle of the night a lot because of it.

I got stuck a little bit in mud one day and my shoes got owned.

There was no one in the streets so we couldnt contact anyone. A lot of people didnt open up when we knocked their doors, but luckily some of them just let us in because they felt bad for us.

Ups:

All of our investigators are progressing really well. We didnt find very many new investigators this week, but when we got to church on Sunday Javier, Martha, Irma, Luis, Josefina, Karina, and Alberto were there. They beat us to church. The first 4 on that list are all going to be way awesome converts. Josefina and Karina have gone 2 weeks straight to church, but they are resisting a little bit their baptisms. Alberto is the boyfriend of a member and I think he is way interested. We will see what happens with him.

We got to teach a lot this week about the Plan of Salvation. We usually dont teach it quite as often as we did this last week. I think we taught it like 8 times. I love teaching it especially when they really grasp it. It changes peoples lives when they really understand. Understanding the Plan of Happiness has blessed my life and I`m so grateful to know where I came from, why im here and where im going.

So I dont have that many more updates, but everything is good. I have been praying for Kurt and for Brad Copple and for all of you.

Congrats Car Car on the big news! I`ll be prayin for you so that everything goes well.

I gotta run! I`m gettin my haircut and then we are going to do a deep clean of our house. Even some yard work. haha

Con amor,
Elder G Heap