Forever in Mission...

hello everybody!

big news this week. in list form:

-sister busath is getting transferred to the land of white people and doors slamming: kingsville. she's opening up an area with another sister. should be awesome. i'm sad to see her go though. my new companion is coming from my old area in brownsville.. so i'll get to catch up on all the people we were teaching.

-remember our favorite pothead investigators from back in november? well, we were in their area and ran into one of them outside. he told us that he has quit smoking pot now, he's lost like fifty pounds, and found new friends. we are coming back to start teaching him again. we'll see what happens. there should be fun stories at least if nothing else happens.

-elvira (the one i told you about a couple weeks ago) and her daughter came to church this week. they loved it. they are so pumped to get baptized. we taught daughter briana's boyfriend too and he's getting in on the learning. he might not be as promising but he's cool. he told us, "what the heck, at least if one day i ever want to be on who wants to be a millionaire, they could ask me a question about mormon's beliefs and i'll know the answer." ha.

-the torres are still awesome. this week was diana's birthday. she turned six. they invited us over to celebrate. they are so cute. we are hoping for a miracle in getting them baptized this week. they know all that they need to know and have been to church enough times.. they are just scared of falling away after they get baptized. they don't think they have enough faith.

-this week, we will be baptizing melody silva. have i even told you about her? she's this sweet little 15 year old. her dad is a convert but is now inactive (still has a rock solid testimony) and she is awesome. we're hoping she'll get her whole family back to church. she is such a sweetheart.
-i am beginning to wonder if i will ever leave this area.

-mariana is so awesome still and will be getting baptized soon. the elders are so happy they get to teach her. ha. sigh. i miss her.

-katie and tammy, those two sisters, ended up dropping us. their grandma is a super duper catholic and just absolutely will not have her granddaughters being anything else. it's really sad. they have testimonies of the book of mormon. i hope that one day they will have the courage to do what they want to do and not worry about it. but for now they are not budging.

..... um.. that's all. it has been a great week and should be a good one this week. hope that everyone out there in cyber space is doing well.

love,

brittany