eMail of September 13, 2010

First thing first. The food that I want most would be Stroganoff, joes and hamburger rice casserole. Oh and popcorn, kitkats, salt and vinegar chips and cheezits. As for the more important things, we have a lot of investigators, more than I remember having at one time in my mission. There are several that are progressing slowly but others that are doing really well. No one came to Church but we had success in other ways. Today we are hoping for a lot as well. Right now the most promising investigator is Ruby. She will likely be baptised the 26th of this month and I´m excited. She will be of great stregnth to the ward. We had a really interesting experience last night though. We went to a members house as we are teaching the girlfriend of one of the members there and when we got there they had found a mouse in their kitchen. We went to help them chase it out and it ran underneath the fridge. We moved it out and the mouse disappeared for a bit but suddenly it came running out again and the sister smacked it like 20 times with a broom. At that point it was just about dead and my companion took it and finished the job. Exciting few minutes. We also had a mission activity on Thursday. It was for the Chilean independance day, the 18th of September. We talked for a bit and then finished the night watching Hoosiers. It really is a good movie and the principles of teamwork involved have a lot to do with the gospel. On Saturday we had to go in early as well for precaution. The 11th of September is a special memorial day and there tend to be disturbances. But nothing happened and even with the cut in time we had a lot of success this last week. Today we had a fun zone activity as well. As for the time, it has been going by fast. It is difficult to get everything done you need too and time seems to just be cut short always. It is amazing how fast time goes by when one is focused. It is a wierd feeling to know as well that this is my last ward that I will be in. So far I have managed to keep my focus and everything though and I am grateful. From what I´ve seen in other Elders I have noticed that as they get this close to getting home they tend to begin to turn off and just follow their companion around. Anyway, I love you all and hope that everything goes well. Don´t count the time, see you soon! :)