Elder Collins

Hello family. Holy Trunky mom!!

  Well this week has been pretty good. Yes, we baptized Carlos, he was really happy and the ward is really helping him feel welcomed. I think the bishop is going  to meet with him on tues to dicuss the possibility of a mission! We have been teaching some pretty good familys.    We are getting ready to marry one of the couples in may, its a little harder because she just moved here from colombia. They are way cool, the Soto family. We have also been teaching another family named the Dancurt family. They are a reference from one of the ward members. They have always accepted baptism but just not a date. They are super awesome, i dont know why but everytime i start teaching or baptize a family they become my new favorite family from the mission. The dad Felipe hasnt wanted to accept a date because he feels like hes not worthy to be baptized because of some old family problems. Well, ive been praying a lot for them to feel the spirit and to accept. Well...they are going to be baptized this saturday!! im super happy. In ward conference they all made plans to help us out. and they even made plans to get them in the temple exactally one year from saturday! I dont know what to think about my zone. We should turn out well this month but im not sure. Also im a little worried about next month because theyre kind of being lazy slugs and arent finding people. Well since im in Lima, Yes mom ill finally be able to skype you guys! The last ones a charm! haha. Im happy Myles is going on a mission and super bummed out that i probably wont see him. Well i hope your all doing well..Saw that the NBA playoffs are going on. totally forgot about that. Wish max would send me some stats. Have a great week, with love and then some Reg

 

Well there was a killer beer fest party outside my house last night...lets just say im tired haha! 

 Baptism of carlos

 

 

 

 

Elder Collins

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   Well today is transfers. Crazy stuff. No not really its not as stressful if you know your not going to change. It also helps when you get to see the changes first. There isnt going to be too many changes for our zone this transfer only 3 people are changing. One of them is going to be the child of God whom i just love with all of my heart that finished his mission! HES GONE!! yipee! Thats super cool myles got his patriarchal blessing. Im way excited about his mission too. Maybe he will come here who knows? Nah he looks like a European kind of guy. Lies he never sent me any type of email either. Well to answer your question..no, no one is self sufficient. I get the dumbest calls or questions in the world. Thats one thing that we have been working on helping them with, to be more self sufficient. Like the other day an elder from mexico says "Elder i cant sleep well at night..."ok, what do you want me to do?" " we need to change houses there is evil spirits that haunts our house so that we cant sleep." Im sure you could have imagined my face when i heard that. haha. I asked his comp if he can sleep and he said no, but its just because its hot at night. haha. This week we were going to have a baptism of an ancient investigator. Her boyfriend is a freak of nature. She is 20 and he is 30( a nerd without friends) and was going to be baptized but he has to repent for about a year for things that he did and that he still does. Well it never worked out because he picked her up the day of  her baptism and wouldn't bring her to the baptism. Then he kept calling us saying that she doesnt want to be baptized anymore. Which was a lie, we think its because he heard that she wants to go on a mission and he doesn't want to be separated from her. I wont lie she is a little brain washed from this nut.  We think also that it could be that he fell again with his problems and if he cant be baptized then he wont let her. What a jerk. My comp was so mad. I am Glad sam is doing well in soccer and tell him to step it up with the basketball. Haha Bruce just sent me pictures of Garrett that's crazy that he is home! Yes I got the girl scout cookies! Thank You!  I had to share with the office and pretty much they ate a whole box so that was just fun!  I love you all! Love Reg