You asked about Elder Ketchum or ¨Ketchup¨, as almost all of the people call him her, because his last name sounds like the red kétchup. This is his last week and he is a beast. In a good way. He is just going full throttle to the end. He is wonderful and he is a great example to me. I can´t wait until you can meet him because he is a fantastic, top class person, in every aspect of his life. So his parents arrive the 5th and they all leave together the 11th. He is sad at the fact that he is going to leave the mission field, but luckily missionary work is a lifelong calling.
We are really excited for general conference and are planning on attending 4 of the 5 sessions. We always miss out on the Sunday afternoon session, so we will have to wait until the Liahona from May comes out. We are also anxiously waiting to get a hold of the new Joseph Smith movie DVD in Spanish. We Heard about 2 or 3 weeks ago that they had released it and finally, a couple of days ago, it came into the distribution center by the temple. Unfortunately, the 28 copies that they had sold out fast, so we are waiting for the second round from Germany. We hope that it gets here fast so that we can show that to investigators and members.
You asked about my new companion. To be honest I think I have been pretty sure who it was going to be, for about 2 months, Elder Ketchum says. So my new companion is Elder _________He is from ______________ I really can´t say too much more as President Watkins has been very, very explicit this time about not talking about transfers so to be faithful to him, you will have to wait one more week. To say the least he is a very good missionary. We are going to let everyone know this Saturday morning what the tranfers are, and since there are 13 missionaries that are going home and three that are coming in, there are a lot of changes.
I really liked the story that you sent me mom last week and this week about moments of happiness and struggle, and about building great cathedrals and no one seeing those outside efforts. They are great stories and have wonderful principles. Thank you very much. I love hearing about how your testimony continues to grow and grow.
The picture of Elder Gomez that I sent Cami was from a long time ago. He is training again in Fuenlabrada a missionary from Manchester England. I have attached two pictures of Élder Ketchum and I in the conference room in the office where we do all of the far away zone conferences. President and Sister Watkins always travel to the zone conferences but as President Watkins likes us to stay in our área, we keep working and go to the office and do our part from there, instead of having to waste much more time in flying to the Canary Islands or the North of Spain to participate in zone and district meetings. But that would be pretty fun if we did go. So this picture was taken after we did the zone conference of the Santiago zone. It went really well as Élder Ketchum and I gave 10 minute talks. Elder Ketchum is an incredible speaker. He will be famous some day!
Well, have a wonderful week. Keep smiling, Reading the scriptures, praying and watch all of the general conference sessions that you can. Tell everyone hi from me please and that I love them. I love you so much!!!
Love,
Élder Driggs
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