Time is picking up again. My three weeks with Elder Huntsman in Lovell seemed like two days, and now that I feel like I´m getting a grasp on things time is slipping away again.
We had a miracle fake out this week, sort of. An investigator that´s been taught forever told us Wednesday that they were getting married, because they wanted to get baptized, which meant we would´ve been able to baptize them this Saturday, but it wasn´t meant to be. We found out at church yesterday that they´re getting a civil union and not getting married until september, so my hopes and dreams for them were set aside until September. It´s very likely that I´ll stay here until September, so maybe I will get to see them baptized and received into the fold of Good Shepard.
We found some potential housing this week and today we´re going to make some calls to follow up. Probably in the next two weeks we´ll be moving, but probably not Elder Sousa Silva.
We got a call from President Prieto this last week. He asked how I was doing with the language and with teaching, and afterwards he told Elder Sousa Silva that has to get me ready, because he´s going to have great need of us both. We´re thinking that because we´ll have 12 new missionaries this transfer that Elder Sousa Silva is going to train and that I´m going to take over the area as senior. I don´t know how to feel about that, but nothing is set in stone, so I shouldn´t worry. Also transfers might start a week early, which means right about now.
This area should finally have some baptisms this week and a lot more in the coming month. We´re teaching some awesome families, and Elder Sousa Silva chastised the ward in his talk on Sunday, so hopefully we´ll be getting more support.
A lot of people don´t realize is our job in it´s perfect form is only to teach. Finding, baptizing, confirming and integrating is all about the ward.
But all is well.
Write me a letter......or two.
Love,
Elder David Short
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