Everything is going great here. First off I had forgotten to tell you guys that if Ben can arrange for us to fly home together I am down for it. That would be the sweetest thing in the world. I don´t know how he would do it but would like too! I don´t know when I get home yet but tomorrow we have interviews with the new president and I will talk to him about it there. Also that last pic of Elizabeth is not funny.
Anyway for this week all went pretty well. My DM went alright I was really short on time but it things weren´t going as well as I wanted but an elder bore a strong testimony of what I was teaching and things went really well. As for Olga the women whose husband died. She is doing really well she is getting baptized the 13 of July. The first baptism since April 22 1012. Needless to say the branch is excited and so are we. The RS is already talking about a party they are going to throw her. It has been a long process but she has gone to church every Sunday for the last month. Her life has changed a lot in the last month and a half. She seems more at peace and things just seem to be going better. She is pretty happy. I am getting along better with the members now it took a lot longer then usual, but things are fun now.
Half of my district is still struggling. The sisters are just depressed it looks like but I have one companionship that is just mad at me. I had a baptismal interview with them. For that old women whose house smelled like grandma´s. Two seconds before I walked in her door one of the elders said wait elder Wray can I talk to you? So I stepped aside and he told me ¨You might need to help her with tithing. I was like you have to be kidding me. Every interview I have had from someone that wasn´t a zone leader was like hey you need to help them. I don´t know if they don´t realize that they need to be ready for the interview before they schedule it or what. This elder is really young less then 5 months and his comp is bobo(?) but still. So I did the interview and when I got to tithing she was like that is what I wanted to ask you about. I can´t pay. I tired my hardest to get her to understand but she wouldn´t accept. It didn´t help that she cried a lot. 30 minutes later she told me I want to get baptized but I can´t pay tithing right know. I talked about faith, but she said maybe in a few months then said she didn´t feel ready to get baptized. I told her that baptism was a big promise but also a huge blessing but if she wasn´t willing to keep the covenant she should probably wait a little till she was. She agreed. So she didn´t pass I guess you could say. The Elders were kind of mad at me but I didn´t know what they wanted me to do just pass her or what. One told me my comp told you to help and you didn´t do it. I was like I tried she said no I can´t just let here get baptized. She is your investigator why didn´t you figure it out before hand. Now she doesn't want much to do with the church. It is really sad but I feel like I did what was right. The next day I had another interview with the ZLs of a young 16 year old. He was a stud but a little shy.
Today I threw a District activity to try and animate my district. It went well I cook a oven roasted chicken with sweet potatoes and potatoes and onions. Also sausage. It was really good and really easy. I liked the idea because you just through everything in the oven then we played futbol for 2 hours till it was ready. The sisters just showed up to eat which bugs me but what ever. It went well.
Also this week and elder in my district has Ab ripper X and on divisions this week I did it. It was so good but I was hurting a few days later. He is going to give me a copy this week so I can go home in a little better shape. But yea that is my week, fun fun. I hope all is well there. Be safe, you guys don´t be trunky! Love you!
Elder Wray
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