Brett-April 20, 2009

Today marks 14 months as a missionary and tomorrow it will have been one whole year in Texas/New Mexico. It continues to fly by. I don't really like how fast its going. I think about how quick the first 10 months went by and I know these next 10 are probably going to go even faster. I'm kinda of dreading it to be honest with y'all because I love being out here. Don't get me wrong I definitely miss y'all but it's going to go too fast. This past week has been a blast. Cristina is fixing to get baptized on Saturday. I don't know how much I've told y'all about her. I'm sorry I'm not very good about giving lots of details in my emails but I'm repenting and I'll try and do better. Well Cristina is living here in the states for about six months with her aunt and uncle who are members of our branch. When we first met her she didn't really want to be taught. She told us she was Catholic and that was it. But she came to church a couple of times and wanted to learn a little bit more so she asked if we would start teaching her. The more we taught her the more she wanted to learn and she began to gain a testimony. She's read quite a bit out of the Book of Mormon and loves the gospel. She told us last night that when she has kids she definitely wants to raise them in the church. She had a few concerns about the Word of Wisdom and about what her family and friends would think of her but she knows its true and she's prayed about it and is ready to go for Saturday. I'm way excited for her. True doctrine understood truly does change peoples lives. We've found some other sweet investigators this week. Clementina and her son Claudio had been taught about five years ago. Well see what happens with them. I'll give y'all more details next week. The Lord is blessing us a ton. Well I love y'all. Have a great week.
Elder Harber