Osternack Week 5

So this week was good. I figured out that the best way for me to not be trunky is to continue in the thoughts that the end will never really come, and that I will be a missionary forever. I am focusing on working hard, and making the most of these last few weeks.

So about the people we are teaching, we are working with Duda so that she can be baptized this Saturday. We have talked with her and her mom about it, and her mom doesn't feel like she is ready to be baptized. She is a less active who was baptized when she was 13, was active for what she said was about 6-7 years, then became less active because the church "wasn't what she wanted," and she doesn't want Duda to do the same thing. We are going to have a family home evening with them and President Cuvelier to help with the difficulty.

Anyway, I am excited about the week because we have a lot of work to do, we have some baptismal interviews to do for the sisters, and we're hoping that Duda will be baptized this week.

Also we had a little miracle this week. A member took her ten year old son, who isn't a member and is now living with her, to church. He told us that we wants to be baptized, so we went there later that day and taught him. We are planning his baptism for February 2nd, and we are going to do everything in our power to prepare him for this day.

Anyway life goes on and I will have to be going. We are going to have ice cream with gummy bears / coca cola floats after we finish emailing. (Well I will, Elder Abreu just wants to eat ice cream). Have a good week and see you all (most of you all) in a few weeks.

-- Élder Pettingill

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