sorry i didn't email you yesterday, everything was closed because of MLK day....
i dont have too much time so this will have to be short! sorry!
that was crazy to hear about olivia and all the changes in the ward! and all the new babies! congrats!!
as to the psalms- there is some really beautiful verses in their, i have recently grown to appreciate the old testament more because i ahve been reading jesus the christ- i never knew all this jewish history could be interesting! it sort of makes me want to take a bible history kind of class but well see how i am when im signing up for classes... i feel pretty nerdy now... haha also elder cooley met the proffesor from BYU that discovered all of that poetry in the book of mormon (i think in alma) i forgot what it is called but there is a whole chapter in the BOM with that patteren. he discovered it on his mission so thats pretty cool!
as for the family that i started teaching, they have actually moved out of state it was very random and sad but there is nothing you can do...
as for the familia chavez that we have been teaching- the uncle has a baptism coming up in the end of january and we hope the rest of the family will follow suit after they see him do it (who are all kind of nervouus to change from their catholic upbringing) but they aall have great testimonies...
we aare also starting to teach the adoptive mom of one the recent converts taht the sisters before us taught.. she was going to be babtised this sunday (8 days after our first lesson- mexico city style!! haha) but we dont think she will anymore because she missed stake conference (that was the regional conference broadcast... very cool to see it in spanish although i like it better in english only becasue translators arent emotional and passionate- it was especially noticable in elder holland's talk... yeah its pretty hard to focus on translators but it was very cool non the less!!) anyway she had a family emergency so i think that we are pushing her date back to the 31 (same day as the uncle) but that is still a very quick turn around...! its this wuick because on our firt appointment she asked us how she should prepare herself to be baptized because that was something that she wanted to do....! haha it was crazy she is basically handed right to us all ready and everything! very cooL!
also we contacted this former investigator that we had tried 2 already with no answer anyway she was with her member friends at the time! huge coincidence (sp) but even bigger- she hadnt seen them in 14 years!!!! and they picked that day and time to meet and we showed up! the lord def does align the pathes of his children! it was pretty cool. so yeah we are starting to teach her so well se how that goes
love you!!!!!
sorry it was so short
ps I'm sending my stuff home i think today so yeah expect taht soon!
stay warm!!!
