It's Christmas time!!!

December 5, 2011

Hello family,

This week has been good but slow again, but at the same time fairly productive. We taught more lessons than last week but still not up to what we could be doing, and we didn't get as many OYM's we would have liked. HOWEVER, we picked up 5 new investigators this week, a family of four and a former investigator.

The family of four is the guy who is the maintenance worker at our apartment's family. We always say hello to him and talk to him in Spanish but it never occured to me that he hadn't already been asked if he wants to take the lessons! So we knocked on his door one day, and we talked to his wife Meli (who is sooo amazed we can speak spanish), and said we would like to come by this week and sit down with your family and talk about what we do/share as missionaries.....she invited us in immediately! I love Mexicans. So we taught a scattered 1st lesson and committed them to read and pray and left them with some copies of the Book of Mormon. Super good lesson and we see him daily so daily contact isn't an issue!

Rosa is progressing slowly, but steadily. Gustavo, still have no idea what the deal is, but we'll keep going by.

Our other new investigator Myrrna de Leon is a former/eternal investigator more or less. She has read quite a bit from the BOM and I'm pretty sure there's a hint of a testimony in that Mexican blood somewhere. We'll try and withdraw it and help her progress to the holy waters of the font that we all love so dearly.

This is obviously the Lord's work. I know it, yall know it, I don't know why you're so adamant about me sharing my testimony about this work. I'm close to fluent in Spanish in a small 6 months?! Clearly that isn't humanely possible (probably not fluent but you catch my drift).

The gospel is simply pure and purely simple. That's all folks! Thanks for the packages! The chain is awesome! I love reading words from the whole famdamily and friends. You mean a ton to me and it's hard to be away during this time, but I know i'm in the right place.

Love you!

-Matt