Keeping Busy!

 

So my stories for this week. We taught someone on Temple Square! It's typically out of our area and even out of our mission, but since it was a Portuguese investigator, we have a huge area we can cover. Our Spanish area is pretty small but for Portuguese, we cover from Bountiful to Draper. Anyway, we taught her in the North Visitor's Center and she seems really interested. We took her up to see the Christus before we taught her. Then we found out, as we were teaching her, that she's Jewish. But she's really interested and she came to church and loved it. For our second appointment we took Edgard, the guy who got baptized last week, and they really connected on a lot of points. So, for Halloween we aren't allowed to go out and proselyte. Instead, we will get locked in the mission home all evening. Apparently some people dress up as missionaries and just wreak havoc. Also, we are going to the Jordan River temple on Wednesday. I'm pretty excited for that. Well, that's all for this week.

 The Salt Lake City  Temple and Conference Center, taken when I got to spend the day on Temple Square.

 

This is Edgard, my first baptism.

Ramon, my second baptism, along with myself and my two companions--Elder Reiff on the left, Elder Allen on the right.

 

I have a challenge for all of you. I have seen how slow the work can move without the support of the members. But when the members get involved, there are huge blessings for everyone. I challenge all of you to set up a family night with a non-member family. Just invite someone you know from work or everyday life over to your home for dinner and just a social night. Then invite the missionaries to teach your family. So the missionaries won't focus on your friends, but they will be there and here the message the missionaries share and they can make return appointments and get contact info. It's a very non-awkward way of introducing your friends to the missionaries. Anyway, I hope to hear back on what you did.