Just grateful

-well brigg as darth vader says "impressive" thats an incredible achievement. im proud of you.

-thanks for the pictures

-roller coaster week. hot, cold, rain, hail "yes hail", northern arizona wind.

-we found one new person all week.

-incredibly spritual zone conference.

-15 people in an open house weve been planning for months because of a rain storm.

-7 investigators in the sacrement meeting. some arrive solos

--sister give a chew out talk on tithing nearly shouting "pay it!!"-

-2 investigators leaving almost running

-a golden family of 4 leaving scared/suprised by the talk

-1 incredibly faithful soul baptized, Evangelina, 62 years old, takes care of her 100 year old mom, E villegas found her knocking doors 3 weeks

ago

-awesome numbers in the district but my areas were the lowest...

-suprised that friday is my 20 birthday

-more suprised that i have 9 months in the mission.

-grateful for the love i have felt this whole week.

-more grateful for the One who payed a price so a much less than perfect person can be forgiven of his sins

-grateful that conversion is a process that requires tears, time, blood and sweat

-grateful that someday i can be who i want to be, and that you can too

-i know what im doing in this world -just have to figure out how to do it

-grateful to hear from my friends and their successes in their missions

-glad that a dear friend of mine is on the staight and narrow and progressing just like me

-glad i have the best family ever

- trying to focus on the good and fix the bad

-loving and missing you all

-elder solomon

Comps are not valentines

Well, I'm spoiled by bad Internet again. [He tried to send pics and it didn't work.]

 Valentine’s day does exist here, but it’s a lame day as a missionary. The only one not with someone else. (Companions don’t count).

 I don’t feel like writing my letter again sorry.  In few words. The mission President is inspired. The mission is changing so much for the better. I now leave to work at 8 in the morning and sometimes don’t get back till 10 pm.  Hard work but the results are incredible. Pray so that we can have a baptism this week so we don’t blank out this month. The spirit has just absolutely come out in the mission and we now know how to obtain, maintain and use it. 

Glad to hear you all are doing good. Send me a pic of the rooster, I can’t stop laughing. And some other pictures.

 Love you all, take care,

 Elder Solo

No transfer for me

Ok, so the rooster story made me laugh out loud here in the Internet cafe and I couldn’t stop for about 3 minutes. Southern Virginia who?  11000? Is that dollars or pesos. Holy cow. It’s less for a 2-year mission. That’s so exciting about zack. The church is amazing in Brazil. He will baptize a LOT the only bad thing is Portuguese. Its like speaking Spanish with rocks in your mouth. Brigg good job in wrestling. That’s awesome. You guys had a lot of good stories this week. I love that.

 Well, no changes again. Staying with Elder Villegas in Claveria. Its ok. We’ve got a lot of stuff going on here and a lot of new stuff too. The ward thinks I'm some sort of legend compared with missionaries that were here before but... I've got 6 months here and want to get out of the city. Oh well, guess I've got some unfinished business here. One of the Elders in my district got a kid so I spent a few hours training him. In the district we have an Elders with 9 months (me), 6 months, 23 months, 2 months, 2months and the newbie. Really young, but ready to work which is the main fight. Now we’ve just got to teach them how to teach! We were gonna have two baptisms this last week but as the lady said. "Satan didn’t want us baptized" they both got sick Saturday night.

 Well, not much to report. Hope you are all well. Keep close to the Lord and he’ll keep close to you. 

Elder Solomon

Just trying

Not too much to report this week. Heart breaking Cardinal Super Bowl loss. And one of the hardest working weeks I’ve had! We taught lesson 1 9 times which is sweet. I got home every night just beat and my comp was still wanting to go more. That kid has a bunch of energy and love for the work. He just needs more help teaching and getting people to live the gospel. Despite our efforts this week we had no one in the chapel on Sunday. I almost cried. 6 people sick and two that hurt themselves. How is that possible all at once? The slightest change in temperature and every one is bed ridden. It’s kinda pathetic. But oh well. What more could I have done? I’m just trying to live worthy of the Lords blessings. Hope you are too.    

With love— 

Elder Solomon