February 1, 2012

Things this week have been going well as usual. Transfers are today, and I'll be staying in Juncos with Elder Visker. I'm excited because this will be when we see all the progress really happen. All the families we found have stayed steady and progressing. One of the Narnia families, the Valentin family, has been really busy and it's been hard to get in contact with them but they're still interested. Their neighbors, the Carasquillo family, aren't so busy so we are going to be able to go over there more often. We're expecting that to help the Valentins be more interested in making time. The wife of the Carasquillo family told us too that in their neighborhood, there's a group that gets together every Monday to talk about religion. They call it Café con Dios. We're hoping she'll get baptized and change it to Chocolate con Dios. Manuel and Keila have been good too. We had a good lesson with them the other day about the Plan of Salvation. Edgardo and Givendolee have been going through some hard times and they're going to have to move out of their house. They're not sure yet where they're going. That might make it hard for them to keep progressing but they've said they really want to do what they can to keep going, and to keep coming to church. They came for the rest of the meetings on Sunday and they loved it again. The 3 year old loved the primary class and had a lot of fun. The Rodriguez family is progressing really well too. We've been teaching the commandments with them. They've been really receptive to everything but they are nervous to accept a baptismal date. They said they're afraid they weren't ready to make the commitment, and they wanted to be sure that they wouldn't just be baptized and then stop going, so that's what we're working with with them. I've really noticed how when people start to investigate and really progress there are always challenges, big or small. But we're working hard with them and they're all still really excited to learn and progress. If you could include that in your fast, that would be really great.

We went to Humacao, another area in our district, so Elder Visker could do a baptismal interview for a family the elders have been teaching over there. This family has been investigating the church for 3 years now but they only just recently got married so they could be baptized. It was really great to see how excited they were to finally be able to make that covenant with Heavenly Father.

Well, we're still seeing miracles. Even with the challenges that have come up, we have seen how Heavenly Father really is helping His work to move along. I love being out here and being able to be a part of that work. I'm excited to see what happens on Friday. I love you. The Church is true.

Elder Duclos