The Ice is Melting!

Cara Familha
This last week was pretty darn cold starting out, with temperatures in the negatives, but it warmed to a balmy 34 degrees on Thursday. The only thing is that during the beginning of the week we don't have the car, because the sisters have it, and during the end of the week the weather is nice, but we're in the car. I feel that the Sister Missionaries have been stealing our blessings. The weather hasn't been affecting me too much, because a sister in the ward found out that I didn't bring any warm clothes, so she went out and bought me some thermals. They're taking good care of me out here. The only part of me that still feels the cold is my face, but I'm not really supposed to cover that.
The work seems to move in spurts. In a week where we aren't able to meet with a lot of people and teach a lot of lessons we're still able to perform a lot of service and talk with people to make plans for the next week. This next week is going to rock. I feel it in os frangos.
We usually play basketball on Saturdays with our investigators, but some of the church youth who come can be poor sports, which ruins the game for me. I'm still horrible at shooting, but I'm getting better at my defense.
We have a lot of investigators right now who tell us that they are interested, but they never keep appointments and then try to avoid us. But we shall prevail!
We don't have any baptisms lined up for this month, hopefully next month we'll have two, maybe three.
We're starting to make a lot of progress with our less actives and getting them back to church. We met with one less active for the first time this last week. His name is Brad. He is living with his girlfriend who is also a member, and they said that it would be OK to come back and talk with them. We asked them if they had any questions about the gospel that they would like answered. She said that she wanted to learn more about the plan of salvation. He said that he wanted us to explain how the dinosaurs fit in with everything and that he wasn't going to come back to church till he had an answer. So we are encountering a lot of stubbornness, but that's OK. It will never discourage me from the work.
I had a talk in sacrament yesterday. It was supposed to be about being financially prepared for a mission, using Elder Holland's talk from the Saturday morning session, but his talk didn't have much to do with preparing for a mission. I decided to focus more on the examples of sacrifice of missionaries throughout the scriptures and what they did to prepare. I felt like I was babbling a little towards the end, but all in all it went OK.
I shall speak with you again next week.
Ate Logo!
Ame
Elder David Short