My camera batteries have all died so I can't send you any pictures this week, but I'll get the pictures from our baptism and send them next week after I buy batteries today!

Dear Family,

This week has been GREAT! Let me tell you all about it.

Tuesday- We had a Zone Meeting and it was really good. We learned about teaching recent converts and helping them have the desire to share the gospel. Then we had dinner at a member's house and we were able to visit one of our investigators with them, which went pretty well except he dropped his baptismal date, but it's mostly just pushed back a few weeks. Then we were able to visit Dawn, who we hadn't been able to see in a while.

Wednesday. We had a church tour with our investigator, Yolanda, and it went really, really well. She's going to pray about baptism. Then we had another church tour with Susan (the one who looks like grandma) and it helped us to stay on topic and feel the spirit, but she was still very insistent that she's already been baptized.  Then we saw Levi Lee and we told him about how since technically he's living with his fiance he can't be baptized until he's married. which they were fine with. The only thing is that his wedding date is 11-11-11...so he'll be baptized in November. That crazy rocker! Then we went and helped translate the "P" Party (personal progress party) for the Spanish mothers who were there with their daughters and that was a lot of fun.

What Padre Wells imagines that the "P" Party looked like.

Thursday- We weekly planned all morning and then had District meeting in the afternoon. We stopped by a referral that we had received.  Her name is A****, she's 13 and really wants to learn about the church and her mom is fine with that. Actually her mom was baptized man,y many moons ago, but she is now Wicken, but is fine with her daughter choosing to be Mormon if that's what she wants. It's crazy, but cool. Then we visited D*** and she had 4 referrals for us of 4 teenage girls who were really excited to come to church. We then visited a less active who is getting ready to receive the priesthood and we're so excited! Then we drove to Glendale for exchanges.

Friday- I stayed in Glendale with the Solano Sisters (yep, third time I had exchanges in Solano) and I was with Hna Uriostigui and we had tons of fun. We talked about Encanto a lot since that's were she was trained and she was trained by Hna Urias, who is my complete favorite! So we talked about that a lot and we visited people and knocked on doors and had an all around good time. Then we drove up to Circle City and re-exchanged ourselves. On the way home she told me all about the magical things that happened while I was gone. Yolanda knows she needs to be baptized. They were super bold with Susan and she's finally understanding that she can get baptized again, this time with proper authority.
And they found an investigator who had "dropped" us and found out that she didn't, but her mom doesn't like the Mormon church so it was actually her mom who dropped us. She's going to meet with us again (she's in her 30's, so it's ok) Oh also, Hna Overy's skirt zipper broke that night and she couldn't get it off. It was super funny and took a while to get it off of her. I had to go get some plyers and well...let's just say she's going to have to replace that zipper if she ever wants to wear that skirt again. She was almost to the point of just sleeping in it, she was so frustrated.

Saturday-We had some appointments in the morning and then we had a baptism. Tyeshia was baptized and it was great! She was so very ready for it. The sad part was that her husband and daughter didn't come since our Ward Mission leader's daughter had chicken pox and he might carry it. Then we helped a very new investigator (like we hadn't even met him yet) clean a house that his ex-girlfriend had been living in with his kids.  But she just left him and took the kids, so he's fighting for custody and cleaning the house so they'll have somewhere to live. It is horribly dirty and gross and so we helped them clean it, but it needs a lot of work so we're going to go over again. This time not in skirts!

Sunday- We went to church and 3 of the girls that D*** introduced us to came to church.  They really. really liked it and they want to come back again next week. Also, A**** came to church. After church we stopped by and saw Frank. He's doing better and he received a blessing, which is good and will really help him. Then we went to a birthday party for Maria Tepeyac's nephew, which was good since all of her family are potential investigators. Then we went home and did lots of studying.

Monday- So Hna. Overy had a dentist appointment this morning in Glendale, so we came down here early in the morning and are now just enjoying being in the city for a while, where there are real things. OK, I love you all lots and lots. I hope all is well and that it stays cool...or cools down over here! It's been up to 117 a few days this week. I think I'm going to fry!

I love you!

Love,

Brea