October 29th Email

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Hello everyone!

 

Im assuming all yall forgot that pday was today. It is only for this week so next week will be tuesday again like usuall. The reason it is today is because tomorow we have a mission conference. Elder Falabella is coming to our mission and speaking to us. That is why pday is today instead of tomorow.

 

This past week we have had a lot more lessons with our nonmember friends. We picked up a family of four last week, they are not super interested, but they are open to learn more about the Gospel, so pray that the Spirit is there to teach them. Arianna accepted a date for the 17, which is the same day that Britt is getting married HA! That was pretty exciting though. She doesnt fully have a testimony of the Gospel, but if she keeps her committments, then she for sure will. We also had a lesson with Gloria finally. She is still not doing well. She did not feel too well while we were giving the lesson. It is going to be hard to get her baptized right now. She still wants to, but it probably wont happen at this time.

 

That is the exciting stuff that happened. The unfortunate news is that we dropped some of our less actives. Toni was not keeping any of her committments and stood us up on several lessons. It was hard to drop her because some of the best lessons we had were with her. Brady moved to Wyoming so we cannot teach him any more. We did pick up a new less active friend, Danica. She is 17 and none of her family is active. She says she is atheist, but she seems pretty interested and open to what we say. We have another lesson with her tonight so we will see how that goes.

 

Tonight is pretty exciting because Cassandra is getting baptized. I dont know if you remember me talking about her. I taught her in Farr West, and she was probably one of the coolest conversions I have seen so far. She fell away for a little bit because she did not think she could live up to the committment, but now she is getting baptized. I am so excited for her!

 

Last night the mission had a missionary musical fireside that we went to. There was a choir of missionaries, I wasnt in it, and they sang, with little testimonies from missionaries in between each song. President Hiers wanted 1000 people there so we talked to all our bishops about it and invited everyone! Nobody from our stake showed...but there was 1000 people there so the goal was reached, but I dont feel like I contributed to it at all.

 

It was crazy, we went to 2 farewells yesterday, without even meaning to. To be honest the talks were not that good haha, was my farewell talk that bad?

 

Well Happy Halloween everyone! I will be in our appartment that night which will be...lame, but oh well. Hope you all have a good week! Dont forget to tell people to write me, because they are not. See you on the other side!

 

Love,

 

Elder Connell

 

ps. Last week it snowed on the mountains and in the valley. It is getting cold and I need my jeans. Can you please send that package asap? thanks!