January 9, 2012

Dear Familia,

Well I still haven't been able to find Connor's Christmas present that I wanted to get him (apparently there is a place in zone 3 that has it but it's a pain to get over there), but we got him a good birthday present.  We got our first baptismal commit for Feb 4 --on Connor's birthday!  Misael was finally able to get Sundays off.  We are really excited about that.  Ana is still progressing really slowly.  We are still struggling to find new investigators though.

Elders Graham and Trainor got blinded out and Elders Cabanilla and Carnohan got blinded into their place as our new ZL's.  I've learned in this last week that Midwood for years has had the reputation of being the "oh you're going to Midwood, good luck." area.  Elder Carnohan got sent here to change that.  He just finished his six months as AP and he is probably the best missionary in the mission.  Not only have they been finding new people almost daily, they have been pushing the rest of the zone to follow in their wake.  It is really cool just to see how much different the attitude of the missionaries can change the entire dynamic of an area.  And then we found out that in the latest Ensign, President Monson gave a talk about the exact same things they spoke on (attitude, desire, faith) in our combined district meeting.

In other news we have moved back into our bed bug pad on Monday.  We found a few more but the exterminator came back for the follow up visit and hopefully got the rest.  We are at the point where we just don't care anymore.  If we find them we kill them (we have been getting more creative in our killings, our latest method, the good old cologne+match flame thrower) but we aren't really going out of our way to find them anymore.

Love you guys
Elder Pearce