1/25/10



Hello hello hello,

Yet another week in paradise! I have almost lived
in florida for a year now! I flew here on feb 4 last
year. Well we didnt have a baptism this week but we
had 2 reactivations! The mom of the girl who was
baptized and her other daughter came to church
again so they are reactivated. The moms brother
kind of went downhill though. She said he doesnt
want to meet with us anymore and thinks its
because he doesnt want to give up smoking.
But we are going to try to talk to him again.
We had an awesome miracle though! We met this
guy in his car who was drunk and started
talking to him. He is from Nicaragua. At
first he was kind of rude and telling us
how we were wrong but then he changed like
half way through when elder baker told him
he needed to repent and change. He started
crying a little bit and then really wanted
us to come over when he was sober. We went
over yesterday and taught him a first lesson
and he really wants to be baptized! He is
awesome when he is sober! He said at the
end that we can come over every day if we
want to make sure he is not drinking or
smoking. He wants to give it all up! He
said we are the doctors and he is the sick
patient and we need to check up on him to
make sure he doesnt fall into a coma. He
really opened up to us and said he just cant
live like this anymore and is ready to change.
Miracle!!!

Skiing sounds like a blast! Man i wish i
could go! I think thats the first thing i am
going to do when i get home. Im not sure if
ive ever met Mike or not... Have i? Everything
else is going pretty well. Its a little tough
once in a while with my companion but its
getting a lot better. Being senior comp is
a bit harder but i felt like as soon as i
went senior comp the Lord has been pulling
the extra weight and has given me more desire
to work. We have been working really hard,
lots of tracting. I think we have almost
tracted out every apartment complex with
hispanics. Im actually not sure where we
are going to tract now. Its been tough
finding places with hispanics. We kind of
got a little jipped when they divided the
north and south areas because there are a
ton more in the north area. Plus our ward
mission leader referred his friend who lives
in our area to the other elders which i was
kind of mad about. oh well. I havent done
enough member work though. Im really not
sure how to do it because ive never done it
before. Most of the members either live in
the other area or St. Augustine. We actually
cover St. Augustine but its like half an hour.
We want to go there next pday. Oh i sent a
letter to Aaron for his birthday, hopefully
it will be there on time.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AARON!!! I wanted to send something but i
wanted to get something unique to florida
cause im sure you guys will give him enough
toys. I want to get something in st. Augustine
next week. Sorry it will be late!

Thanks for all the fatherly advice. It really
did help a lot. I need to start visiting and
being bold with the members too. i think we
are going to play soccer today, hopefully!
Jason sent me an email last week. I wish i
could help him realize that he needs to go
back to church but i dont think theres much
i can do right now except pray. Will you
pray for Vinicio this week? He is the guy
that i was talking about who didnt want to
give up smoking. I found out he was more of a
miracle than i thought! hold on...