One of our best letters yet...

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Love, Laurie 9-Febrero-2009 Let me start off by wishing luck to Sarah in her productions this week, to Josh in choosing a new house, to Mom in finding someone to fix the house, to Dad in his business decisions, to G&G Tolman in starting up their mission soon, and congrats to Ben for starting a new job. This week went by well. I have an excellent companion who loves the Work. We had lots of success be the end of Sunday. Things are looking up, way up. We have a golden investigator- José Acosta - who just swallows up anything Gospel related we give him. He is getting baptized this Saturday, which is always stressfully exciting. Along with him, varios persons from the Blanco Family are planning to be baptized with him. The Blanco family is HUGE. And VERY poor. Sadly, many members here are a bit arrogant and prideful, but there are enough humble, hard-working families to keep the blessings coming to this ward. Luis is beginning to ask us to leave his house. We had a talk with him the other day while we helped him sand down a desk he made in his workshop (all sanding skills I possess I due credit to Exterior Structures/Potterman Hollow) and later we talked about the repentance process of Alma, jr. He is letting us come back, but he´s losing his family because he cant/wont give up selling/doing drugs, and he´s blaming us for it. A delicate situation, especially cause of the people he knows. I absolutely love being a missionary. I dont think that I have ever been so happy for my efforts in my life as I am now. Its great! I HIGHLY recommend it for all who are wondering if they should go or not. We had a Ward leadership meeting yesterday where we discussed the baptisms of the Blanco family and someone made comment that in the entire leadership there, every one of them were RM´s, except for one who met the missionaries after getting married. Being a missionary is so pivotal in future church service. There is just so much to learn that one can only learn in the field. I have been blessed with a great area, great companion, and great leaders. There is so much inspiration going on here. THere is so much to do. And so little time to write about it in my journal. I just cant begin to explain to you all for helping me get here. I love you all so much. Trust in God. There is a promise oft repeated in the BoM - ¨Keep my commandments, and ye shall prosper in the land.¨ It is repeated some 22 times. ¨Ask, and ye shall recive; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you,¨ repeated some 125 times in all canon of scripture. I think He is trying to tell us something. -Elder Tolman