Contacting the Elect

Hello Everybody!!

This week was pretty impressive. Numerically not so much but in finding, oh ya. We found so many people this week it was awesome. We had lots of things that fell through but becasue of that we found lots through contacts.

Well, to start off there was Sunday. We had our Ward Council and then the day before we had the Bishopric Meeting. The ward leadership is really excited to get involved in the missionary work and are SO helpful. Our ward is truely amazing. They are so awesome. We have a member who was the old ward mission leader who showed us a closet filled with binders all seperated and filled to the brim with information about the ward, members, past investigators, baptisms, and all sorts of stuff. This will be fun. We also had the confirmation of Joanita and Leo this week! So great to be able to participate in that and see the progress they are making!

Well, awesome story of tracting for the week goes to our meeting with a less active. He is a semi active/less active member from Colombia. We arranged to meet up with him one night. He took us to his home and we found a couple that also lived there, husband from Cabo Verde and wife from Brazil. We invited them in to talk with us and taught the first lesson. Holy goodness. They are awesome! They understood everything perfectly. The lesson however was extremely interesting. We began to teach when suddenly our friend half interrupts us to share a scripture. I was like, "ok, cool, scriptures, those are always nice" however, it became a very slippery slope. Well, lets put it this way, we taught for probably a sum total of 15 minutes. The rest of the hour was our friend telling this couple that the need to "enjoy the opportunity to listen to the missionaries, they don't have much time." Or in other words, "aproveita. Aproveita! Aproveita! APROVEITA!" yA. It was a little ridiculous but they understood! They are scheduled to be baptized in two weeks!

Anyways! No time! I love you all!

Elder Cordon