Follow Up Week

April 16, 2012

Dear Familia,

Well this week hasn't been super eventful.  We have still done a lot of fearlessing and knocking, but not as much as before.  Now we are more to the stage of following up on all of the names we received, see who's legit.  And thanks to a few couples, we got nine new investigators this week, which is the most I have ever got. We also have one baptismal date from an eleven year old girl whose mom is a member and her 13 year old brother just got baptized.  Unfortunately the mom married an anti-mormon and he is not too supportive of his children.  And the mom doesn't do a very good job of encouraging her kids so we could have some problems when the date gets closer.

Let's see, Elder Trejo went home Friday.  Along with some other mission legends.  Elder Crawford's (who plays o-line for BYU, probably about 6-6 300 lbs) family came up to pick him up.  They are all tall, but twigs. It was kind of funny seeing them together.

Oh and yes I already knew about President Nelson's homecoming party because Elder Trejo had started planning it before he went home.  He was an event planner before the mission.  I haven't had too much personal interaction with President Nelson. But I do know he completely changed this mission.  First off the day he retired President Eyring went to his house and asked him to be a mission president.  When he got here the missionaries all hated him because the president before was pretty lenient and President Nelson clamped down on a lot of their fun. Now our mission has a fraction of the many problems it had before and the church uses it as a testing ground for mission programs.  President and Sister Nelson get emails from other mission presidents around the world for advice on how to better their own missions.  So even though I don't know him that well, I know I am very lucky to have had him as a president.

Well I think that's all for this week.

Love you guys,

Elder Pearce