Updates from Centinela East:We will be having twobaptisms this Sunday!! Jamson Chuc is the 15yr old son in a PMF. We are very excited for him to be baptized! He passed his interview last night and is all ready for this Sunday. He is a really really quiet guy but is slowly but surely warming up to us. Not too much else to say here, except his recently reactivated dad is really happy he is making this decision.
Sergio did not pass his interview entirely last night with our district leader so we have one scheduled for this Thursday with President Guiliani. He used to be a member of the gang "Crips" from age 12-14. He used to sell a lot of marijuana and beat people up as a result of his membership. He stopped his gang activity when his friend was shot and killed last year. He is a good kid and is commited to the gospel and loves progressing within it so we are confident he will pass his second interview. I love all the new experiences that I am
having on my mission, especially being exposed to different walks of life. I loved hearing about the huge change that my investigators/recent converts made/continue to make as a result of accepting and following the gospel.
We are also working with some less active members/recent converts. Six of them came to church last sunday, and we hope that the Ferman family will join of them this Sunday! The Archundias girls, who are good friends/neighbors to Sergio, have come three times in a row! They even stayed with Sergio for two hours of church this past Sunday. They are also coming to all of it this Sunday. We are very happy with the progress they are making. One of the girls is in Jacob in her Book of Mormon reading after five days of reading!
We are also still trying to juggle six other people that are kind of shakey in their desire etc. one of them being a family of 5. We will sort it out this week and hopefully they will all be at church with solid baptismal dates! We are also looking to pick up 3 investigators as part of three different PMFs... We also are going to pass over a really cool African-American family to the English elders.
I am loving all the work to be done!
I am diong great and I love my new comp and it was really really weird to send a missionary home!
