September 15, 2010

Dear Family,

It is always so hard to think about what I should write you. I just have so much going on that it is so hard to capture it all and put it in a letter in so little time.

Well life is great here in Cuatro Caminos, Barrio 5. We are sooo excited because we finally have a bishop. His name is Bishop Rick Whitmore and apparently he is in charge of the finances for IBM in Spain. So he is pretty well known, and after talking to President Watkins, the father of our bishop was also really well known in the business world. We are just ecstatic. Sunday afternoon, the same Sunday he got sustained, we received a call from him asking us if it would be good to switch out the ward mission leader. He then asked for suggestions on who could fulfill that calling. The next day we got another call from him. This time he was asking us for a few phone numbers and if we could come to his house and meet with him sometime this week to talk about the work. OF COURSE, we said. So we are really excited and are grateful that he is acting as fast as he is because this ward needs a man of action like him. Things are just going to blossom here on out.

Some of our best investigators right now are Napoleón, Luz, Jasmani, and Saul. They are a family of 4 from Ecuador. They are progressing really well and this last Sunday we invited them to be baptized the 9th of October. They accepted the date as a goal. They were will to work and learn more until that date and if they ¨receive a reaction¨, as Napoleón said, before that date they would be baptized. But if not, then they would call it off and just continue being friends. They are a wonderful family and they remind me a lot of Ronny and Gina and their 3 children that got baptized almost a year ago this November.

It is fun comparing how I have progressed in this last year and how much more I participate now than I did then. The two children are 17 and 12 and they are incredible. Saul offers incredible prayers and they are reading a lot in the Book of Mormon. The best thing is that they do everything together. They read the assigned chapter together, they all come and play soccer with us, except Luz, every Saturday, well at least the last 2 Saturdays. So it is really fun teaching them and we hope that they can come to church this Sunday with us. So please, please, please pray for them. They are really special and elect.

My funny story of the week and the story for the newsletter is the following.

On Monday we had a mission council and after wards President Watkins took us to a Chinese buffet. While we were getting into the elevator to go up we looked at the sign that said 8 people only and were about to obey it when President came from behind and said ¨métense, métense.¨ He pushed the 10 of us in and tried to fit himself but when he stepped in the elevator, it sunk down a foot and while trying to back out he almost fell backwards onto his back. Then the doors shut. Time passed, we couldn´t go anywhere, the doors didn´t open. We were stuck in the elevator. 10 missionaries for 17 minutes were stuck in an elevator while trying to go to a Chinese buffet. Pretty embarrassing but it was really funny. When the engineers finally were able to free us, President Watkins was there speechless. He apologized and we had a lot of good laughs. The lesson learned: obey all rules and customs, even when your mission president doesn´t want you to. haha.
Keep up the good work Elders. Always remember to smile and don´t let me down out there!!!

love, Elder Driggs


Thank you family for all that you do.

I love you all.

Elder Driggs