Busy Week

March 5, 2012

Dear Familia,

First off I wanna say sorry to everyone who has written me in the past couple of weeks, it has been really busy and I haven't been able to write back to very many of you. And I won't have any time today either.  We have the Preach My Gospel bowl today in Woodside, which takes between and hour and a half to two hours to get to by train (And no I can't write the letters on the train unless you don't want to be able to read them).

Well this week... we got two more baptismal commits -- the children of Angela and Rosendo.  Normally we don't like baptizing kids without the parents but the parents can't be baptized yet and the kids really want to and Angela promised to fully support them, take them to church on Sundays and everything so they will be baptized on the 25th.  We haven't been able to set up a temple date with Claudia yet because the baptistry opens at 11 and she needs to be back by two and it takes a little over an hour to get there, so we don't think there will be enough time.  We will get it figured out though.  Unfortunately we have lost contact with Misael so we don't know when we will be able to do anything with him.  We think his phone got stolen and he started going back to work on Sundays >:^(

Remember that lady that hadn't been to church in five years that we reactivated? Well in that first visit we asked her for a referral and she gave us one of her friends.  We have been teaching her.  She is a 69 year old Puerto Rican. She is really smart, she writes down all of her questions and everything.  We could have something going with her within the next few weeks.

Other than that it hasn't been a very exciting week.  Member work is slowly picking up which helps us a lot.  We had mega zone conference on Wednesday (all of zone's 1,2,3 which is all of Brooklyn and Staten Island), that was good.  Keep me updated about things over there.

Love you guys,
Elder Pearce