7-26-10

I'm excited to get home and see the bandit, I bet it's sweet.

Alright, so the baptism and an update on that! She has fallen off of the earth. The members have been calling and going to her house and anything else they can do but we finally got a hold of her... sort of. We called her phone from a private number and her boyfriend answered :S. We also went by her sisters house (where she lived) and she told us she had moved away to New York with her boyfriend which we didn't really know if we believed as we were told they didn't want to hear the gospel so maybe they're just trying to get us outta there! Well, we have NOW heard, that is false. This whole time her 4 nieces and sister DID want us to come by!! AHHH! So we're a little bummed out about that. But we're going to start lessons with them. And, she did in fact move to New York. We're thinking it was more of Gods doing that she didn't get baptized. Probably just knew she wasn't worthy and ran away -- we'll see what happens with her family though!

This week was really good, except one thing. Elder Rogers is being transferred to Avon to be assistant to the President :( We really sucked every last opportunity out of our companionship that we could though, so at least that worked out. We spoke about 75% spanish and a little english when we were together and we studied and worked hard. It's a bummer but I'm excited to see how I can do being the "veteran" in the area now. Elder Trujillo will be my new companion. I don't know much about him so I'm excited to see how everything goes!

Elder Rogers though is from Denver, CO and goes home in six months. He has a family of 6 and he's the oldest boy. His little brother just entered the MTC in Sao Paulo 3 weeks ago. He is really good with spanish and knows the grammer almost perfectly, so that was a huge help to me. I'm bummed out we're being split up, but -- all good things come to an end.

We have a few more baptismal dates.

Julio - From Ecuador

Miriam - From Ecuador (married, a few children that are grown up)

Veronica - From Argentina, the luchadora

Mendes - Brazilian

So we have plenty of work! We're excited and it's a lot to do so we'll be happy! Elsi is another one of our strong investigators so we're helping her right now a ton; hopefully she will accept baptism soon. She has been really solid in going to church etc. Her husband is a member / returned missionary and she has a 3 year old daughter.

Anyway, that's the news here from Bridgeporn... I mean, bridgeport library. You can probably guess why we call it bridgeporn.. haha

Love you!

-Elder Conner Allred