Rain

This week we got a ton of rain.

Sunday morning we woke up to rain and I guess the culture here is that if you wake up and it's raining you don't have to get out of bed. This was manifest when only about 40 or 50 people showed up for church and 0 investigators between 2 sets of missionaries. It was pretty disappointing, we normally have 130ish people and 5 or 6 investigators between both sets of missionaries. It wasn't even raining that hard.

The good news is, we were visiting with our investigators Cecilia and her daughter Flavia last night and they accepted the invitation to be baptized! We have been teaching them for 3 weeks now and they've been reading the Book of Mormon, praying, and (before last Sunday) coming to church. Their tentative date is next Saturday, the 7th of October. We also found 16 new investigators last week, which is pretty fantastic considering that to count them as a new investigator you have to sit down, have a lesson, and have plans to teach them again. Everyone tells me that I'll be leaving when my training ends, which is just 3 weeks from now, so that's exciting.  Hopefully I can get my first baptism before I go, but we'll see. If not here, for sure in my next area.

Elder Solis and Elder Watts

Today is my companion's birthday, and I bought a cake to celebrate. He's beginning to get a little trunky as he goes home in just 3 months. I sometimes remind him that 3 months is still a long time, but when you compare it to the 21 that he's completed, it sounds pretty soon. The good thing is that he still works pretty hard when he's supposed to, so I don't have any complaints. 

Love you lots!

Elder Stephen Watts