Blessings!

Hey everybody!  This week went great for us!

First of all, we had ten people go to church this week!  And we have a baptism this Saturday!  His name is Erik García, and he´s 18.  He´s researched the church a lot and knows just about everything.  He had the missionaries over a couple of years ago but didn´t get baptized because he had some bad influences.  But now he´s ready and excited!  He passed his interview yesterday, so he´s good to go!  We´ve been having a lot more success this week because we´ve started a weekly ward activity night, every Saturday.  It helps because we get the chance to remind our investigators to go to church the next day, and it also gives the members a chance to invite their friends.  We shared a thought about faith, and then we played twister!  That was pretty fun!  There were no permanent injuries sustained by anyone, so we were grateful for that.  I think I´ll tell you about some of our investigators.

First we have David Freire.  He´s in the military, and we found him through his wife, who is a less active member that we talked to on the bus.  He´s really good, and he came to church on his own, with his wife and two little boys.  Just like most of Ecuador, he´s an inactive Catholic, so he´s pretty receptive.  The goal this week is to teach him and help him accept a baptismal date.  

We also have Silvana.  We found her contacting in the street.  She´s interesting because she´s studied with the JW´s for over ten years, but never got baptized.  To sum things up, she´s looking for everything that the gospel offers.  She came to church yesterday and brought her husband along!  We had our testimony meeting this Sunday, and she was very touched by the testimonies of the members.  

They are our main focus right now, along with Erik.  If you could pray for them, that would be awesome.  We´ve also got a couple of referrals coming up that we are going to teach.  But more on them next week!  Talk to you then!

Love,

Elder Wallace