Email Letter - 25 March 2009

Hey Fam,

Things are going amazing here. We had two more baptisms on Saturday and then the other Elders that are here in the other Branch had one last night. Our Baptisms were awesome! They went off without a hitch and I have no doubt that the Lord is looking out for us in our work.

We have been working with the list of members trying to clean it up, or take off the people that have moved away or passed away so that we can make it more accurate. The first presidency has also asked that we start working on reactivating men that are not ordained and have sent a plan for us to follow. They want 50% more ordinations than there was the last few years and the plan is to work to get that done before the dedication of the Temple in Cordoba.

What I’m getting at is we are using the list of members and we are baptizing lots of people to reactive those that are already members. We have a few more lined up for the 4th of April which we will do after the second session of conference and before Priesthood. We are excited with how much the members are helping us and keeping the work moving forward.

We are about to call a Branch mission leader and Branch missionaries! It’s so great to have the help that we’ve got. We have just been working hard and we have been finding a lot of people that are excited to listen. We contacted a couple in the street on our way home the other night and they told us that we could go by there house and yesterday we did. They woman has listened to the missionaries before but the man had not. The lesson was awesome and they have two girls that listened as well. We have been looking and praying for a family lately and this was a blessing. We are so excited to go back on Friday and I think that they are excited for conference and the mom and the girls said that they wanted to go to the session for them this Saturday.

A couple weeks ago we starting teaching an English class and we are getting lots of kids coming that need help with homework and stuff like that because classes just started again here. We are hoping to have lots of success finding people to teach from that as well. We have put up signs everywhere and we have been handing out lots of flyers as well. We are excited to see that progressing as well.

I love this work and as much as I miss home I know I’m here to help the Lords work progress. I love you all so much and hope that all is well. Take care. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN!!!

Tay