San Diego #31 2-2-09

Hola familia mia:

Pues-todavua estoy aqui in Srping Valley. I'm still here in Spring Valley, sending another companion home, after all, that is what I do best. That shouldn't happen again for a while since me, Hna Alcantara and Hna. Whitley are now the oldest in the mission (for spanish sisters).

Transfers are changing now too. We'll get a call tuesday night to say if we need to come to the meeting w/bags packed, then wednesday morning, we go to a chapel and Pres. will tell us who our comp. is and we go. So it's already a given that I'll go, but until the moment, I have no idea who she'll be...Kinda exciting.

Every ward in the entire world is now required to provide missionaries w/lessons-we are required to teach. So the idea is members in wards (auxillaries) each give 5 people to teach to the missionaries. So that's 15 and missionaries are to find 5 as well, so world wide, that's 20 lessions, every week...Well our ward hasn't quite caught on yet and our mission just raised our standard to 21. This last week Sis. Howarth and I worked our guts out and we got 10 lessons (not bad for no progressing investigators) but not good enough.

Let's see...Moises is an investigator of E. Bomsta in Lemon Grove-He had been teaching him for the past 6 months. Last sunday, he went to the baptism of Aldo and Sis. Howarth and I went up and talked to him, ended up commiting him for baptism for the next sunday (yesterday). Well, He did it-He got baptized! It's crazy because we didn't say anything to him that the elders hadn't already said. So thats a pretty sweet meiracle. It's fun to be super bold w/othe people's investigators because we can be bold to an extent w/ours.

I guess that's all

Love, Hna. Baker