Ward Activity

Hola,

Well, here we are, another week gone.  Things have been just about the same here this week.  We keep working hard, and slowly but surely we are seeing the fruits here.  But I feel like I don't have too much news to report this week.

As far as what's new, I really don't have too much.  We had a ward activity on missionary work yesterday.  I didn't have too high of hopes as far as turn out since, because of stake conference last week, it didn't get anounced until the day of.  Still, we had a surprisingly high turn out, about 35 more or less.  Although about two thirds of them were primary kids, and the other third ward leaders.  Still, the activity went pretty good I feel.  Since there are three companionships in the ward, we decided to devide everyone into three groups.  We each chose a topic to talk about, and cycled the three groups through.  Elder Hall and I talked about the message of the restoration.  (Yeah, I'm losing my English.  I just had to look up how to spell restoration.  (Hint:  It's not restauration.))  We were supposed to take 15 minutes, meaning 45 minutes all in all for that part.  But it ended up taking about an hour and a half.  (Believe it or not, that was not my fault.)  So we ended up finishing about 9:00 at night.  Still, it got everybody a bit more excited about sharing the gospel, especially the primary kids.  (Still don't know English.  Excited, not exited.)  So, all in all I feel it was a success.  I just hope we can give the members a bit more of a warning the next time around.

Other than that, things are about the same here.  The elections are coming up here on Sunday, so all the political parties are out trying to get everyone to vote for them.  This can actually get pretty annoying, because pretty much all of them have edited a popular song of some sort so that it talks about them, then they drive around cars, or semis, with speakers blasting it on repeat at full volume.  (Yeah, it's a different world here.)  So, I'm looking forward to all of that being over next week. 

Well, sorry it's a bit of a short one.  It sounds like everything is going pretty good there at home.  (Yay for one more week of school.)  OK, I love you and I'll talk to you next week.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long