Elder Justyn Pollock

This week was great! We found an awesome family this week. There are a bunch of people living in the family: aunts, uncles, grandparents, grandkids, etc. and they are very receptive! We found them when we felt to come to their house and talk to them. Many commited to come to church next Sunday, and some have already accepted baptismal dates. We also have been teaching another partial member family we found. The mom of the family was baptized 20 years ago and hadn´t gone to church in a long while, while the daughter, Amy, is now 10 and recently came to know the church this week with her Mom. The Mom wants her kids to learn English so we include a little bit of English teaching in our lessons with them. We are also teaching her 14 year old son, Alexander, who doesn´t know the church, but he couldn´t come to church this week because he works to help support the family.

    Monica (the recent converts of about a month ago) has continued very well in the gospel, including taking family history classes! She attends church with her daughter Scarlet who is member, and her other daughter Marilyn who is not member with her two kids. We are currently teaching, along with Monica and Scarlet, Marilyn and another older daughter of Monica who hasn´t come to church because of work. The bishop has the vision of Monica as a seminary teacher for the ward very soon! So we are helping her strengthen her testimony and knowledge for that!

   As for food, today we had homemade macaroni and cheese thanks to my ¨son¨ Elder Brown. It turned out way good! (Though the only familiar cheese they really have here is mozarella so we used that) I continue eating Chocopic daily along with the other missionaries in the apartment. We have been saving the boxes to take a cool photo with out favorite cereal, which i´ll send next week!

   Hope you all have a great week and a Merry Christmas!

Elder Pollock