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Well, I've come down with a cold, but the work hasn't slowed :).

We have a prospect for baptism this coming week! His name is Victor. I think I told you some about him last week, but he has a baptismal date. He main road block right now is that he's studied some history, etc., so his head is saying one thing while his heart is beginning to feel another. He loves the people at church and enjoys our discussions. We still have a lot to teach him but he's coming along. We were able to have a member in our last lession which was a great help in answering some of Victor's questions.

We have also seen some of the fruit of our contacting. We had a family who was a bus contact attend church yesterday! We have an appointment set up with them for this coming week. The said that they enjoyed church. The husband especially I think is pretty receptive. He loved our discussion in sunday school about prayer and had some good insights like how after we pray we need to go out and work.  :) how true 

We were able to see one of our recent converts yesterday and Saturday who hasn't been coming to church because of work. He hurt his knee at work, so he was able to come to church yesterday! (the Lord works in mysterious ways :). Hna. Ence was great with him, showing him the index in the back of the scriptures and encouraging him to find a favorite scripture. His roommate Julio might start investigating the church, actually. He has been around the sisters because of Oscar, so maybe he's ready now.

Hna. Ence, our trainee, is improving. She is talking to more people and her loving desire to help others and get to know people is awesome.

So Jesse asked about the training program I've talked a little about so here's a short explanation: It's called the 12-week in-field orientation for new missionaries. The church has made a booklet with a schedule of what to study each week plus "check your progress" questionaires and a page for each on the 8 fundamentals of Preach My Gospel (also fairly new--helps us focus on what's most important for the investigators to do and feel, like church, prayer, the doctrine of Christ, etc.). The purpose is to prepare new missionaries faster so they can be more effective as missionaries sooner and so that they can train after they have gone through the training. We do a lot of role playing and watch segments from the Preach My Gospel dvd's, etc.

on another note, no snow here yet...:( but it's still pretty cold...I'm starting to get used to it though.

Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Hna. Cottam