September 29, 2010

Dearest Family in the whole wide world,

Thank you for the weekly update. I love hearing from Cami every week too! That is a new treat!

This week has been a great week. We are just cruising Elder Gomez and I, and actually, the past two days I have been in exchanges with Elder Meek. He is from somewhere near Farmington, Utah, and went to Davis High School. We got along well and the work in his area, Villalba Collado, is incredible. They have a wonderful Young Men´s Program there and have baptized two young men in the last 2 or 3 months and there are more on the way. It is wonderful to see when the church organizations really work as they should, it help in la obra misional or missionary work. Elder Meek and Elder Holub, his companion from Colorado are great missionaries and they have the goals to accomplish equilibrium every week. Equilibrium is short for the weekly goals of the mission. Elder Meek is a great missionary, despite the fact that he has been sick for the past month. He was diagnosed with gastrointeritis, I don´t know what it is called in english, which makes him throw up almost everything that he eats. He threw up a couple of times in the street after we would eat, and I felt really bad for him. Interestingly enough, he is very used to it. He is a hero in my eyes because he doesn´t complain one bit.

During my time out of the area, Elder Gomez and Elder Holub have been working hard. This last Sunday we were sitting in our class of Principles of the Gospel with Hermano Clever Rojas teaching the lesson and we hear the door open and see the new bishop come in with the first counselor of the stake presidency, and they were accompanying a young man to the class. The bishop asked us to have him presented and he stayed during the class and even during priesthood. Elder Gomez talked to him after the meetings and we set up an appointment with him on Monday. So I received the call on Monday night from Elder Gomez and he told me that this young man Luis now has a baptismal date. His novia, girlfriend, in Ecuador is a member and he has been in Spain for about 3 months looking for the church and already had a triple combination, hymn book, and a manual for principles of the gospel. When I got back today, I heard that he even asked them if he could go on a mission, because he is 25 years old. So this guy is just incredible. He wants to be baptized, go on a mission, and just wants us to teach him. Super cool and super easy. The miracles are just coming in left and right, and there is hardly room enough to receive them.

William, our baptismal date for the ninth of October is also making solid progress. During our lesson on Saturday with him, we affirmed his desires to be baptized, calmed his fears, and he just started connecting all of the dots or signs from the Holy Ghost, like his increased happiness, peace, and the answers he has received from reading the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, and prayer. We then asked him if his heart was telling him to be baptized. He waited for a couple of seconds pondering, and then said...¨que sí.¨ We testified that the feelings of joy are from the Holy Ghost and that he is ready. He is very excited and we brought him a white shirt and tie so he could where it in church. He looked great, even though he didn´t like the tightness of the tie and collar, and ended up taking the tie off.

During the exchange Elder Gomez and Elder Holub found William and his sister in law in his apartment and it was an answer to Williams prayers. The whole time William has been changing and seeing the blessings come into his life he has desired the same for his sister in law. The missionaries started the lesson, but basically the whole time, William was testifying of the Book of Mormon and that you just have to pray with faith and you can get an answer. He taught everything and perfectly and said that it was a miracle that the missionaries were there, because it was n´t planned. William said that it was the first time in more than a year that his sister in law has visited him in his apartment, and the exact time that she is there the missionaries rang the doorbell. The lesson went great, William wants to be baptized, and we are happy!


I love you all and pray for you a bunch. I really do love you and apreciate your love and prayers on my behalf and for the investigators here. They need all of the help that they can get. People are always changing there schedules and it is hard for them to find time for us. Nevertheless we love the work more and more every day y estamos deseando un bautismo!

Les quier un montón y que tengan una semana super buena. ¡Que el Señor les bendiga!

Élder Driggs

P.S. Me encanta la obra misional y me asusta mucho pensar en que tengo muy poco tiempo quedando. Sin embargo, disfrutaré del tiempo que tengo. Hata logo.