WooHoo!

My first week with Élder Emanuel was good. Everybody thinks that he's American. We did a contact this week and he didn't say a word but the lady said "Wait you're not american!? But why do you have a funny accent?" I give him a hard time because if he was in the Hill Cumorah pageant there is no way he wouldn't play Joseph Smith, he looks exactly like him. 

Progress!

This week we taught two girls that accepted the preparation to be baptized and they needed to stop smoking. We gave them the task to brush their teeth every time they were tempted to smoke and in two days one dropped from 15 per day to 1 and the other stopped after 3 days!! It was so cool to see the great progress they had so fast!

Another Senior Citizen

A few weeks ago we had a very special baptism of a lady that is 79 years old. We have another investigator coming to church every Sunday that is also 79 years old. Last sunday he didn't come and so we went to see what happened and pick him up if he still wanted to go. We got there and he wasn't feeling well so he didn't go to church but he had been praying about baptism and decided he wants to be baptized on his 80th birthday on the 22nd! Even better was that this week he started anouncing it to his whole entire family and inviting them to go see. He is a great guy.

A member of the Stake High Council spoke at church on Sunday and he cited a great quote from Albert Einstein about goals - "Lack of time is an excuse given by those who lack goals." It's so true that without goals we will look back on our lives and the things we've done and see that we accomplished only a part of our potential, whether those goals be physical, monetary, educational, spiritual or of any other sort, we've got to have them and go after them.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder DP