Hello everyone! It's been another good week here in sunny El Paso. We found quite a few new investigators and set some baptismal dates. We found a family of four on friday, and we set baptismal dates with them and they're coming to church this Sunday. The Rios family. Fernie, the Dad, is really popular with all of the kids in that part of Sunland park because he's really good at fixing bikes so they're always bringing their bikes over. So usually when we teach lessons over there, we teach them in their front yard and there's at least 3-4 random kids who listen who wandered in off the street. Yesterday there were more and we played a game of touch football in the street after the lesson. We got a lot of weird looks from passer-bys. I guess most of them find it weird to see Mormon missionaries in shirts and ties playing football with little Mexican kids in Sunland park. Upside: Every single one of the kids gave us their address and want us to teach their family.
We had a really cool experience last Monday evening. Tuesday we had a zone conference and we were assigned to train about church tours. Well we were going to give our zone a church tour and show them an example of how to do it, so we wanted to check out the Stake Center first to see what we were working with. Well we pull up Monday night at 8:30 and there's a random lady walking through the parking lot. We asked her if she wanted to see the inside of the church and she said "sure!". So we gave her a church tour on the spot. (We were kinda making it up as we went since we haven't spent much time in that building but it worked out.) It went really really well and she left there with a Book of Mormon, and a commitment to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. She also wanted to refer us to all of her friends but didn't have their addresses. It was amazing to see how the Lord put her right in our path so that we could have that experience and be prepared for our training the next day.
Well that's about it for this week. I did get the letter sent from JFK. Thank you! And I got the emails from Israel as well. Not to fear. Kate: Thanks for the SwFlu advice although a real letter/email would be nice sometime.
The work of the Lord continues to move along. I know that this is His gospel and I am so fortunate to see the hand of the Lord guiding me every single day as I strive to serve him.
Much love,
Elder Benjamin Wilson
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