Week 88 - Church Tour with the Molina Family

January 30, 2012

Hello!

Well, after the scholarship part, (Thank you for sending me that, by the way - I hadn't even thought about it!) here's a little bit of what's been going on here in good 'ole Houston!

We weren't able to have Magdaleno's baptism on Saturday. He drank coffee last onday, so we had to move his date to the next week. It's possible that we could have it this Saturday coming up, but he's going to need a lot of prayers to go strong. When he came to Church on Sunday, we weren't able to ask him if he drank coffee the day before, so We're just really hoping that he hasn't. He wants to get baptized, but the coffee part has been really hard for him.

Elder Duran is doing well. He's been focusing a lot more on the work, and has really been going out of his way to talk to people. He's doing awesome! I definitely need to focus more on him, and help him feel more confident and comfortable in his calling as a misionary, but overall, he's doing well.

We had our district meeting last week, and it went well! I'm excited to see the fruits that come from it, and how the blessings are going to come in. The district really needs it.

Man, I'm already running out of time! I still need to e-mail President Saylin! The week has been going great, and we've been blessed with more families to teach. We had a great Church Tour with the Molina family on Thursday, where Sister Molina went through and explained every aspect of Church to her sister-in-law! And she explained it exactly to the needs of her sister-in-law, so she really enjoyed it.

I went on exchanges with Elder Sheridan last week, and I learned a lot about loving people, and our true purpose of sharing the gospel be to bring happiness to others, not to simply bring them to Church. It's been really interesting - I've been out here for a while, but the Lord is still teaching me a lot of the basics!

Well, I'd better get going. Hopefully, I'll be able to write a little more, but if not, I LOVE YOU! Have a wonderful week!

Los amo, a infinidad, y mas alla!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Devin Collins