January 4, 2010

Hello Everyone,

I hope you're all excited for this new year as I am. Its a time to start changing for the better. This year is going to be great! We had a slow week last week but the holidays are over with and the people here have no more excuses to dodge our appointments...unless we're snowed in or something. But we're looking forward to a new slate.

We were blessed to able to to soft commit the Perez family for baptism on sunday. That means that they are going to pray about it and we'll see how that goes when we visit them next. They seemed excited to do so and began asking questions and what they have to do to be baptized and what is required of them. The only problem might be coffee for the husband, Alvaro, but we're praying that they'll be sensitive to the promptings of the Spirit and that they'll accept the Lord's will for them.
We found out that Stephanie's mom kinda intimidating her out of asking for permission for baptism. She still wants to be is scared to ask. So we told her to keep praying about it to see if the Lord wants her to ask now or wait until she's 18. But she still loves coming to church and has been really consistent.
Other than that we're trying to contact and work with the callbacks that we've gotten recently. Its been tough with the holidays but hopefully we'll be able to find them home now.

I hope everyone is working hard to have missionary experiences to help move this work along. Some of the members were thinking about ways to help us do our job better and some were saying that they should make a goal to go teaching with us more. Though that is good, we already have a good support with that. What the full-time missionaries want, and what we told them, was that rather we'd have them make a goal to have a family or friend taught in their home by the missionaries. So I'm going to challenge each of you to pray and ask the Lord for guidance to find an individual or family to be taught in your home by the missionaries by the end of March. That gives plenty of time to figure it out, fellowship them and break the ice to invite them to listen to the missionaries. I can promise you that the Lord will pour out his blessings upon you and that you will feel a greater love in your homes, families, and individual lives as you help another child of God along the path that leads to eternal life. So I'm challenging you all do that and would love to hear of any experiences you have regarding that in the future. I know this work is true and the Lord is guiding it. All we have to do is follow the Spirit and have the courage to open our mouths.

Love,
Elder Fitt