Dusty's Email -- 10/27/08

Hello there,

Well this last week has been busy busy busy.

Yes, all is well with my companion and I. We are enjoying much success, and the Lord has put His elect in our path. On Saturday we went to an appt, and I had written the direction of the house wrong. It was street 34 #32 and I had street 32 #34. So as the person told us that is was the wrong house, a girl of about 12 years came up to me and said that in another city in our mission her Grandma had been baptized, and that she was interested. As we followed her to her house we taught her Mom and little brother and with one wrong address the Lord blessed us with three new investigators.

We were suppose to have a baptism this past week but the only condition was that the man had to marry his wife. As we got ready for the marriage we found out that the wife's papers were incorrect and that they had to get another copy of her birth certificate from Puebla. So we thought that this might derial his baptism a while, because he's very busy and doesn't have much time to go 3 hours on a bus to pick up a piece of paper from a different city. But he told us that Monday he would go. We are eating with him today and will see if he was able to get it. But I know that he truly has a desire to be baptized.

This week my zone gets to help out at the Open House for the Temple. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday are the days that we will be in the Temple helping with the tours and all that. Then on Saturday the ward has rented a big bus and the ward and our investigators are going to go to the open house. We have been asked to go with them. So this week is extremely busy but were all really excited. We are hoping that our investigators that are trying to decide to be baptized will feel the Spirit real strong and will be baptized.

Also another exciting thing. The day before the Rededication of the Temple there is a giant cultural event at Azteca Stadium. This is the second largest stadium in the World. I beleive it holds close to 110,000 people, and they still won't be able to seat all that want to come. So its going to be big. Five other missions other than ours will be there. All the Mexico City mission, Cuernavca and Puebla and we are going to sing "Called to Serve" at the end of the program, some 1,100 missionaries! It's going to be real powerful. We have also learned that President Eyring will accompany President Monson to the Rededication. It's possible that the missionaries will have a special meeting with them before. So were all real excited.

All is well. Our water is fixed again so we have hot water. woot... Things are still well with my comp, we are working hard and its showing. The members have been a real help also to us with our investigators.

about the package, food would be nice, and it would probably be better with the money idea, but it doesnt matter and ill have to ask about the Abreva. but i bet i can get it here. but it doent really matter what you send, but also some pictures.

I attached 3 pictures, tell me if they turn out ok. I'll send more.

Love Elder Howard