Week 75

Dear Family,
Life has been good in the hood for the past week. We have 3 baptismal dates right now and hoping for 5 more this week. Last night we had a great lesson with David and we taught the Plan of Salvation which he enjoyed a lot. It was really something to see last night because Elder Black still is struggling on the Spanish part and he was able to give a great and simple explanation on the Atonement and Pre-Mortal Life. Even though things were not said the way they exactly should have been, the Holy Ghost carried the message of the love and truth. We keep on telling Elder Black that he need to eat more chiles and then his Spanish will progress at a speed that he won't even understand himself he will be speaking so well. But he says he is too gringo for that so he wont.

Yesterday we were knocking doors in the early afternoon and as were knocking we found nothing but Cambodian people and we also found out that the Cambodian Elders had just knocked that street and no body wanted to talk to us, like normal but little bit more like "what are you doing here, we just talked to you?" So, we left and as we were walking back to the bikes and there was a jolly older looking Mexican man getting into his car in front of a house that we just knocked and no one was there but now he was. So I stopped and talked to him and shorter long story made shorter.... he invited us to sit with him in the backyard and taught him the Restoration. So we did and he liked it and now has a baptismal date for the 30th this month. That is just a little example of what I have been missing for the past year while not being the barrio and how life is going on these days here. I hope all is going good for everyone and I pray that God be with you.
Love,
Elder Jimmie G Watkins