The Talent Show

It's crazy how time flies...even when I'm in an area that's pretty.....well as we say here, burnt. The work is slowly progressing. We have found a couple new people but there progression is pretty slow. Hopefully they can start to progress because I really want to see a baptism in this are before I go. 

We are teaching a couple of people and it was actually pretty cool because yesterday we taught Josúe. (We are teaching 3 Josúe's so if I've told you about one, well yesterday we taught a different one). He is the husband of an active member and he has never come to church. He tells us all the time though that one day he wants to be a member!! How weird is that? Well finally yesterday we were able to commit him to go to church. We had a really awesome lesson about how sometimes God's will isn't our will but we just need to obey. We used the example of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and how he asked for the cup to be removed but at the same time he was completely obedient to the Father's will. We also used 2 Nefi 2 to explain that we really have to power to choose if we want to be saved or not and that decision is ours to make. So yeah awesome lesson and looks like he'll be coming to church on Sunday.

I should tell you about our talent show. that we had this week. It all started simply with the idea of having one about a month ago or a little more. We talked to the Bishop about it and a couple of members but they didn't really seem excited. What I didn't know at the time is that just no one had faith in Ward Activities. They have had a couple a while ago but they didn't really work out well and almost no one came. So yeah no one really thought twice about our idea. We made invitations and put a sign up list for everyone who had a talent and a few people signed up. Then the Bishop had the good idea that every organization did something. Anyways things started working out for the night and it all looked really good. We gave invitations to a TON of people and all the members had a lot to pass out to friends. So on Saturday we went really early to set everything up. 

We were expecting (with a lot of faith) that 120 people would be there. Really this ward isn't that big and by estimates of members and the Bishop they were only expecting about 80. Anyways when it came time to start we definitely had to put up more chairs. Some people even had to stand and my comp and I with a few other members had to watch it from outside through the windows....Our chapel really isn't meant to fit the 160 people that came! It's a pretty small It was seriously incredible. 

The talents were awesome and everyone loved it. My companion and I did a talent too witch turned out hilarious. We did "A Day in the Life of a Missionary". A kid in our ward held a clock and he moved it was we went through the day. It turned out SOOO good haha. Seriously it was a miracle. The Bishop was really happy too and loved his special reserved cushy seats we gave him in the best part of the chapel with his family. For tomorrow he invited us to dinner so that's always a bonus. But yeah a ton of less actives were able to come, also a lot of investigators. The members were SO happy and they couldn't stop thanking us for actually doing a activity that had success. Really it was a pure miracle and it was thanks to all the members inviting their friends to come. Hopefully we'll see a lot of fruits from this.

Anyways that's the coolest thing that happened this week. The rest the week was pretty slow so there's not much more to say. I love you guys a ton and we'll I'll see you soon!!