Well the weeks are going by faster and faster. We picked up a lot of new investigators this week and hopfully some of them turn out good. We have one baptismal date right now with an old guy who just sits aroud all day. He has already read to 2nd nephi and retold us the whole story and he just loved it. We are hoping he continues to grow & work towards baptism. We have a few others that are so close to baptism but won't commit. One wants to be baptized but she is scared to go back to her old life after. She doesn't feel worthy to do it either. We are hoping to be able to work with her and that she will get baptised. Also we have a hatian who believes joseph smith was a prophet believes the book of mormon is the word of god, but also thinks that the pastor who baptised him had the authority so we are working hard with him too. There are a lot of hatians here that used to have quite a bit of money in hatti but after the earthquake lost everything. They are a humble people though.
We had an open house at the church last week and the Whitakers, the office couple, came up and did an activity with pictures of Jesus and a bunch of pictures of scripture stories then they went out and get sea shells and then the people decorated the frames. That went really well we had 30 nonmembers there and gained a lot of contacts there and we hope some of those work out.
We have been having more success this week and hope to continue it. We have been working hard and seeing it pay off but we still need to try and get people baptized. They dont receive all the blessings untill they are baptized. It is hard to see people turn it down and not want anything to do with it.
Thats about all this week and next week we are going to the temple so my pday wont be untill the next wednesday so I will write then.
con amor
elder Jacob Holmes
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