13 June 2011

Thanks for the emails. This does feel weird knowing I’ll be home before next Monday comes around. Congrats Dave and Elizabeth.

This week went really well. We had 8 investigators at church. We’re looking at 2 baptisms on the 25th and 2 more on the 2nd of July. My companion will keep baptizing, which is really great because Elder Peña’s been called to train. That’s so cool. It makes me feel good because I just trained him. And he’s feeling good because it shows that the Lord trusts him. there are few elders that train in their first area. If his new companion is from the USA, he’ll have just 6 weeks more than him. Ha, Ha, that’s funny.

I gave a talk in church. I had planned to talk about the Sabbath day and the sacrament; that just didn’t feel right. So at the last second I talked about the things I learned on my mission. It was cool because we had two visitors from the stake, two freshly returned missionaries, a sister and an elder. The sister served in Argentina and the elder served in Idaho.

Thanks for the pictures. I think that’s it for now. I don’t feel like this has to be super long. Thanks for the support and prayers. I love you all. The Lord has truly blessed me during these two years of service. I know even more than ever that the church is true, that the Book of Mormon is true, that Joseph Smith really saw God the Father and Jesus Christ, we truly have a living prophet.

Thanks again for the sacrifices you have all made for me so that I could be here.

Love,
Elder Whitaker