My Last Entry

Elder´s Log. Mission Date 24.09.2012.
This shall be my last entry.
The last two years have flown by faster than Jacob´s dream.
My companion asked me how I was feeling. I asked him if he remembered his last week at home for going to the MTC. I said that it felt a little like that. I feel that I´m leaving something familiar to start something new.
I´m in a weird mix of emotions.
I won´t forget the people I´m leaving here.
I´m super excited to come back next year to visit.
´´What can I say more?´´ Jacob 6:12
Com Saudades,
Elder David Short

I don´t know how to feel right now.

Dear People,
There was a lot of sad stuff that happened this week.
On Tuesday I had my last zone conference, and in accordance with tradition, I had to bare my farewell testimony. My deathgrip on the pulpit was all I could do to keep from falling over. I was shaking a lot, and doing my best to not cry. I looked down at the front row and saw that some of the sisters were crying, so I couldn´t look at the front row for the rest of my testimony. I was the first in my group to talk, and after me I was able to hear the testimonies of Elder Grandy and Elder Gubler. After the testimonies we watched Only a Stonecutter. At that point I couldn´t handle it anymore. I broke down and cried like a little girl.
Sunday was pretty amazing. In an effort to get a better church attendence, the ward offered a special lunch for everyone that came to watch the meetings. We had an attendence of over a hundred people. Since it was testimony meeting (and probably my last testimony meeting) I had a great spiritual compulsion to bear my testimony. It was a lot like my testimony at the zone conference (shaky, wanting to cry, etc), but I got through it. I was able to control myself from crying this time.
That´s all I have to say about that.
Love,
Elder David Short

More Baptisms

This week we were delighted with two more baptisms in our area. We baptized Sandra and her grandson Paulo.
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I lost my train of thought.

This week we semi-officially divided the area with the sisters. Semi because we have two investigators that we´re still teaching on the sisters´ side. We are now working on one side of the freeway and them on the other. They´re the fortunate ones to be working on the side of the freeway that has the church, but our side is sure to have many of the elect as well. We tracted a lot this week, but starting out in a new area that has very little members is tough work, but we´re excited for new challenges, but I´m going to be careful to not pray for greater mountains to climb, like Elder Eyring.

It appears that the sisters are having some difficulty with opening a new area, but the members are really helpful, and we´re doing what we can.

Saturday, I was making brownies for the baptism, and I fell short one egg. We decided to ask a member who lives on our street if she had one to spare. We walked over, she invited us in, and we sat down. She asked us what was up. We told her that we had a very special message to share with her, but in order to share it we would need an egg. It turned out that she didn´t have an egg, so we apoligized for wasting her time and left. The story may not have been all that interesting to read, but please try to imagine my showmanship during the part when I asked for the egg, and you´re bound to giggle.
Other stuff happened this week, but I´m hard pressed to remember what that stuff is.

Love,
Elder David Short