Monday March 26, 2012

Dear family and friends.

 

I am sorry to say that Elder White is being Transfered, and I am staying in Setubal as the District leader and I will be recieving an elder named Elder Fry. I don't know anything about him, Elder White doesn't know anything about him, and neither does anyone in the zone because last week he was in the MTC, so I will be Training this next transfer, which is the thing President Torgan cares most about. He has for the whole time here, prayed more about his trainers than any other possion, including the Missionary Branch Presidents, Zone Leaders, Assistants, or district Leaders. He prays and confirms his trainers before any other thing is assigned, he tells us if the greenies don't have a good first transfer, the rest of their missions will be difficult, because you always will remember your trainer. It just happens that elder Brown, my trainer, is in our Zone now, so I have been keeping up with him. He goes home in June or July, he hasn't decided yet, with the 3 week difference. So I have a district of greenies. The Sister's are a companionship of three and all 3 of them are in their 2nd transfer, and I am training, so I am litteraly in a fun spot this transfer.

 

It will be interesting to see what is going on here. Elder white and I had the Baptism of Sandro this last week and that was a good end of the transfer. His brother, Felipe baptized him, and I confirmed him a member of the church. He was baptized and comfirmed on Friday because he was supposed to go to viana do Castelo for the weekend, so we got permission to confirm him on Friday.

 

Elder Packard and I did a stake out on Saturday night. We did a division waiting for their investagator to get home, so we could do a baptismal interview. It is interesting to see how much Elder Packard has grown too. For 2 hours we sat on the hill above this persons house and talked our missions and how they changed our lives. During those two hours we raced this investigators brother and since he lost, he had to call his sister to find out where she was, we contacted everyone that walked by, but there weren't many of them. Finally she passed the interview, and was baptized yesterday as well.

 

I don't know why this email took me so long to write, but it did,

I will talk to y'all later

 

Elder Hope