Yes,
this feels just as weird for me as it does for you all. Writing on a day
that is not Monday really throws me off. Good thing is that it probably
won't happen again while I'm here in the mission. It's worth it though.
Yesterday
we had a rather fantastic activity in the cemetery in my area. President
Vasquez has felt inspiration guiding him to have us help people here feel
the Spirit of
Elijah. So the theme of our activity was Family History.
Overall, the activity was very successful. Just in the one cemetery in
one day, we received dozens of references. Many of the people we had
talked to had never heard of or thought of family history, and they were very
interested in their descendants and remembering their loved ones.
Mission-wide, missionaries received over 2,400 references yesterday. That's a rather
incredible number for one day. Everyone here is very happy to see such
success. I'm disappointed that I won't be here for next year's Day of the
Dead activity.
On the
home front, our two sick elders in Valle Nuevo are doing much better.
Elder Maldonado has made a full recovery. Elder Le May is around 80%, but
improving every day. Recovering from Dengue, especially when it gets
serious, takes a while. But he's able to work again, so we're all very
happy with that.
Well,
email time is up! It always goes by so fast... Until next week!
Love
Elder Colton West
El Salvador, San Salvador East Mission
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| Elder West, Elder LeMay and Elder ? at Family History Day yesterday (Sister LeMay sent this to Sister West) |
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| Our table at the cemetery for Family History Day |
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| The cemetery is called Las Colinas ("The Hills")...this is the view from the top of the hill. |
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| The baptism of Danny R. He was an investigator of the other elders, but we taught him while Elder LeMay was in the hospital with dengue. |
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| Bishop Castro took us to Pizza Hut last night. He called President Vasquez and got permission for us to be out late so that we could go. It was awesome! |
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