FOURTH AREA: Working Hard

Max is working hard with Elder Bischoff in Rio Grande.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

"So we had Suelma's baptism on Saturday (Sept. 26, 2009) and it was so amazing.. after such a stressful week, it was a miracle to see it happen and to be a part of it.. i had the opportunity to baptize her and i was so grateful, it was such a spiritual baptism.. her daughter Jessica came too!!! but she didnt come to church yesterday!! man!! nobody else in the fam came to the baptism or church, [but] it was such a spiritual baptism, i think the most spiritual on my mission so far"

OCTOBER 5, 2009

He was able to go to General Conference (Oct. 3-4, 2009) because a lot of his investigators went, this is a list of who went:

Saturday morning: Jelguer & Iraci ("He’s getting married to a member of the church that fell away but they are both going together now and we are teaching her daughter and granddaughter too, they all live together.. it’s a really long story, ha ha, but he is great and progressing and they are ready to get married and so here in about a month they will be married and he will be baptized along with the lady’s 8 year old daughter, she is so cute and so smart – her name is Mariane and the moms name is Iraci. Her granddaughter lives there too – her name is Eduarda and she is 7 and so cute and smart too, ha ha.. so yeah, sat. was great cuz Jelguer and Iraci came)

Sunday: " We had a bus to pick up everyone in our ward and guess who came?! Jessica!!!! Ha ha, finally!! Remember, Suelma’s daughter? She loved it too and Suelma came and also remember Emilia? Shes 16 and was baptized a while ago.. she is so strong in the church now and her mom isn’t baptized yet and her older sis too and they all came to conf. together! Jelguer went again and also another one of our investigators named Rogerio. We stopped teaching him cuz he never came to church but we thought we’d stop by and invite him to conf. on sat and Sunday he showed up!! He loved it too!!! So as you can see, so many miracles have been happening in our area and it was a great week! "

"[This is] me on the roof of a brother’s house in are ward – we did a service project at his house sat. morn and it was great. We fixed a leak in that big water tank on the roof and then we moved a bunch of bricks from his front yard to back and also moved a pile of rocks, it was sweet and nice to help him out and to work with my hands once again for a change."

"[This is] me with the two young dudes is sweet huh? Ha ha, between conf. sessions we had a mtg. with the zone leaders and we left with those two guys to do contacts in the street and it was sweet and on the way back, Elder Bischoff took this pic and its sweet, ha ha.. "

"I'm also sending one of me and Elder B. with the daughter of the guy we did the service project for, her name is Flavia and she is so cute and funny."