Dearest family in the whole wide world,
I am glad to hear that things are going well. It seems to me that life keeps plugging forward like it should, and it sure sounds like you are having and are going to continue to have so much fun in Oregon. I am not sure if I have ever been to Oregon. I am sure that I have driven through it or something like that.
Things are going really well with me and Elder Cerro. Elder Cerro is an animal. He is really good and we are learning a lot together. He is helping me become a better person and I obviously hope that my Spanish can improve as well.
This last week has been great. It was interesting not having Elder Ketchum as a companion but we survived and we are pressing forward. I was able to meet the parents of Elder Ketchum and they are sooo nice. Everything that Elder Ketchum said about them is true. They brought us over a bag of beef jerky and American candy. They are very kind and down to earth people.
Elder Cerro and I, while we were contacting people in the street last Saturday afternoon, were able to find a women name Elisa and we invited her to come to church the next day. We had planned on meeting her at the mouth of the metro Ventas, and the next day she actually came. We obviously want to think positively that everyone we invite will come to church but experience proves that when we invite people the day before in the street, they don´t always come. So she came and stayed the whole 3 hours and lucky for us the Relief Society is getting really strong and unified and it seemed like she liked it. She is from Ecuador and has a 3 year old son in her country. She is planning on going back to her country the 11th of June. What a coincidence right! I think that that day is special for someone else. ;) (Mom´s birthday)So she came and liked it, and after wards a member of the ward invited her to her home the next day for Family Home Evening. She came and we went as well and had a great first lesson with her. We taught her again last night and asked her if she felt that what we had said was true before the 14th of May, would she would be baptized. She said that she wanted to be sure and we promised that she would be before then if she put in her part. She said that she was willing to do so and promised us that she was going to read and pray.
She is basically golden and we are pretty sure that she is going to get baptized. She had a wonderful experience at church last Sunday and has been able to have 2 Family nights with two different family this week and we are going to have another one tonight with the first family again. She also read the pamphlet we gave her the first time about the Plan of Salvation, and we have high hopes that she´s read the chapter we assigned in the Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 11. Elder Cerro was assigned that same chapter when he first received the Book of Mormon from the missionaries, so it is a special chapter for him.
I love being a missionary and can´t believe how fast time is passing. I am glad that every member is a missionary because I want to always be in and dedicated to the Lord´s service.
I love you all very, very, very much and am praying a lot for you. I trust that the Lord is blessing us a lot as a family, and the harder we strive to complete all of his commandments he will bless us more and more.
I love you very much family, Mom, Dad, Cami, Mark, and Cari. I love you, pray for you and hope that you have an extraordinary week wherever you are.
Stay close to Christ. ¨Look unto (Him) in every thought. Doubt not; Fear not.¨
And Never, never quit. A Driggs never quits.
With all of my love,
Élder Driggs
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