That´s awesome news about all of the visits with family, Nicole Baldwin, and Jordon! Jordon is an awesome guy! He emailed me just the other week. Sounds like you could have some really positive progress at Millcreek this coming year! Keep up the good work Mom! You have always been such a positive influence on my life, and I know you impact all of those kids for the better! You rock! As for the olympics- I´ve heard close to nada. If people have tried to tell me that the US is doing well I must have not been able to understand what they were saying haha. We do see lots of TVs that are turned on though.
The southern hemisphere has been great this week. If winter is always this warm here than summer may just be blazing! To answer you question- my companion speaks really good english. He studied in school and he has been studying on the mission (He´s 13 months out on the mission.) His english is almost picture perfect- not much of an accent. Although it is funny to contrast how he sounds in Castellano in comparison to English. He only occasionally pronounces the v in english as a w haha. The members have not fed us much as of yet- we´ve had one almuerzo with a less active family and two "viandas" where they give us the food and we take it to our apartment to eat. However, we just got a new ward mission leader who feels it is a sin that the members haven´t arranged almuerzo with us so he has sought to it that we have almuerzos the whole coming week! haha. I will say though- when you get fed, you get FED. Today for a ward activity they loaded us up! They eat TONS of pasta and bread, with an almuerzo every day I may be in danger of diabetes. We always keep healthy produce, etc around the apartment though.
As for the work of the Lord! We worked dilligently to find new investigators and keep our current ones progressing this past week! We have an investigator with a baptismal date for the 27th of this month! I extended the invitation this past week to Violeta, and she accepted. She is 10 years old and lives with her Mom and Step-dad who are both recent converts. Their family is awesome! I haven´t known them very long but I can see that in the short time I have known them that they are continuing to make amazing strides in their lives! The trouble is that Violeta´s mom wants to be sure she has permission from her birth father, which we respect. He wants her to wait until she´s older to decide what religion she would like to join, which is understandable. We invited Violeta to really read, and pray so that she can firmly say for herself that she knows the gospel is true! I hope that Violeta will have the opportunity to be baptized this month! I know that God´s will is going to be accomplished as we continue to labor in his work! We´re excited to do what we can and trust that all work in the way God needs it to!
We have several other investigators- I believe I mentioned Yonatan the past week. Unfortunately, it has been difficult and they haven´t been progressing (not keeping commitments, missing church, etc.) We have stake conference this coming weekend and the Stake President, President Canga, has set a goal for each companionship to bring 5 investigators and 5 less active members over the course of the weekend! We are working towards it and hope that we can have Yonatan, Agustina, Micaela, Violeta, and other of our investigtors currently known and unknown with us there too!
I know that my redeemer lives! Every time I excercise faith and trust that what I believe to be true is true I receive more light, more joy, and more comfort! I am grateful to believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ! I have so much happiness in my life, and am so blessed of the Lord! I hope I can share that and be the means of "saving some soul"!
I love you all! I wish all the best! Thank so much for all of your love and support! ¡Besitos!
-Elder Lambert
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