Answers To Mom's Questions

How is my busy missionary son? I hope you have more time to write this week. I am including the questions I asked last week, hoping you can answer them today.

Questions:

Elder Ibanez sounds great. How tall is he? What is tall for a Mexican? How long has he been out on his mission?

He is a little shorter than me. Mexicans are usually pretty short. I feel really tall here.

He has 13 months in the mission.

It sounds like you and Elder Ibenez are really working hard. You have not told us about (Pedro) and (Pedrita) - please tell us. Along with any other experiences you can think of..

They were from my last sector and they are great. (Pedro) was a many years alcoholic when we found him in the street. He tried to ask us to help get back to his house and so we carried him to his house stopping every once and while so that he could accuse us of something as missionaries. We helped him into the house as the wife continued to apologize for his husband and accepted a return appointment. We returned as I entertained a drunk husband his wife told a sad story of her, her family, and her alcoholic husband. I also was learning about this drunk man as he tried to explain to me about his previous "Ranch" where he worked in Sinaloa, in between occasional profanities. We tried to continue to visit them and we eventually convinced him to quit drinking for his wife. He had about three weeks without drinking when I got transfered. They were both understanding the lessons. He was reading more of the Book of Mormon than his wife and probably more than all of our investigators. They had just join to church when I was transfered out of the sector. When I left he was still saying that he was catholic and no baptism for him but he also was pretty firm in not quiting to drink and even more so going to church.

So another story.

I had been and am trying to humble myself as I recognized that The Lord is the one who gives success to the missionaries. It was during this time that we received a reference from a member who said that she wanted to be baptized. WE WERE PSYCHED!!! We then spent the next week trying to find her, our golden referal. She eventually found us as she drove up next to us and asked where the church was. YA! Thats the type of investigator she is. We weren't able to make contact with her for about two more weeks. We found her and told her a little about her story. She had just gone through concer treatment and is having to check with the Hospital. Also her family has gone through somethings. There is another man and a daughter. We will have to see what happens because they are not married. I am studying the law of Chastity really hard. We also have someone else but that will be for next week,

Hasta luego,

Elder Hanson