Week 57

Hello Family!

So this week was way sweet and a ton of fun. Time is just absolutely flying by. I was o surprised when I was planning one night and I though it was Wednesday the next day... but nope. We were definitely planning for Saturday. So yes... it does seem like the days are just passing me by here. I am definitely enjoying every single one of them. This last week was really exciting as we had a baptism! The little boy whose family is all member was baptized this last Saturday and I had the honor of performing it... in the ocean. So yes... In the year 2011 I have baptized people in a font, river, and now an ocean. I got some cool pictures and I hope I can figure out my problem with my card reader soon so that I can get some pictures to you all.

As for our goal of 40 at church... WE WERE SO CLOSE. We set the record though at 36 people. I figured it all out though. I blessed the sacrament and noticed that it was good that we didn't have forty. We only have one sacrament tray and the number of cups that can fit on one sacrament tray... 36. We didn't have any water out for the blessing either o it would've been bad that we had more people than sacrament. I figured that was God's way of warning us that if we want 40 people to go to church we had better be ready for that many. This next week we have Stake Conference in Iloilo. So we will have to wait til Oct. 30 to try again for the attendance goal. We till even had three families that we were counting on to be there but were no shows. With all of them there it should have been getting close to 50 people. So ya... we will be ready for them on the 30th and I think we will really get it. With the 36 we had 4 investigators again. We are definitely witnessing first hand how the Lord "hastens his work."

So Krista sent me a Primary story so I feel inspired to share mine this week. I have been "training" this newly reactivated sister how to teach Primary. Her name is Crestine and she is only 18 and way nervous for the calling. I didn't blame her because this group of kids is ROWDY. Like I was pretty overwhelmed at first. Then on Crestine's first week the kids were not very nice and made her cry... it was a dramatic Sunday. So we regrouped and Crestine and I got ready for another week. We taught about Samuel the Lamanite. It was good but they were still rowdy and all over the place. But then we let them draw pictures of it and they were happy. Yesterday we asked the kids what we taught the last Sunday... They told us EVERYTHING. It was perfect. We were both blown away with how much these kids had retained. It was nothing short of a miracle. I love teaching primary.

So I have got to get going soon because I have to get to the city and get some lunch. I'm starving. I am getting pizza today! Remember I love you all and miss you all so much! I love haring from everyone on Monday and when I get letters. It lifts my spirits a ton and makes me excited to get my work done and go home. I pray for you all often and hope everything is going well.

Halong,

Elder Lowry