One Day More‏

So, most of you seem to be pretty baggy. I thank those who are not. :>

Saturday was a triple baptism! I baptized C and two niñas of 8 years of age. We helped one be baptized since her mother was inactive and we taught her a few things before the Bishop realized she was 8 (she is a very small child). So that was wonderful :>

We also went to the Temple on Tuesday. It was a lovely experience in the which I was impressed by how different one feels with the Temple Spirit and how incomplete the Endowment is without the Sealing ordinance.

So ...

We had a few good days, are working with some good families, and I'll leave the area with a lot of baptisms pendientes.

And District Meeting was fun and we mostly talked about the Good Samaritan parable and then I opened up to Q&A, gave some advice and testimony, etc.

So, we'll be seeing you Thursday-Sunday por allí.

Don't be baggy, be happy.

Focus on being Temple worthy and attending! Wonderful things to all of you!

Take care :>

Elder Newman

How are you‏

I hope you guys are feeling absolutely fantastic

(I have bronchitis which takes me a few notches down on the fantastic scale but otherwise things are pretty nifty)

C should be baptized this Saturday! He already passed his interview.

There are 3 more people who should get baptized in the month after, so I feel pretty good about that (I don't have to be in the flesh). One is the daughter of a single sister who was been inactive some 20 years but since we contacted them have been embracing the Church with pleasure. Her name's P. The other two are the men of a part-member family, D Sr. and D Jr. The daughter is a convert of 2 months and the mom was less active for like 20 years also. They're gonna get married finally!

So, that's the week. Hopefully I don't die, the coughing goes away. I've gotten kind of bored of random medical advice and just coughing all the time and I don't fancy spending a day of flights everywhere with bronchitis.

I'm giving my last District Meeting Wednesday and there are a lot of things of which there are only one more right now. But as a math major I'm well qualified to say that numbers are lame and don't matter. :>

And Tuesday is a Temple Trip so that'll be super sweet!

So, cuìdense y nos vemos prontito pues!

Elder Newman

ABRIL‏

I'll be brief since I don't have much time.

April has begun, General Conference has blessed and taught us.

We have 3 people progressing well towards baptism, 1 of whom should be baptized while I'm still here.

We had unpleasant experiences with a drunk family member of a partial family that's otherwise composed of really good people. Said experience augmented greatly our testimony of hymn singing! Hymns chase away evil spirit. We had talking about hymns in the District Meeting just that morning, too.

Good exchanges with Elder B and Elder H. We got baptismal dates set, new investigators, etc.

And I've got a bad cough but we're going to try this viro grip stuff (an expectorant produced in latin america or something like that) and see if it helps.

But we'll call that a wrap since I don't remember much else!

¡Cuídense! Love and be loved,

Elder Newman