Week 90 Palmira

First letter of the new year.  He sounds good but he keeps mentioning how tired he is:)  I am sure he is after two years and realizing that he is approaching the end of his mission

Dear Family Hall,

Well another week passed by way to fast and thanks for the help and not telling me how many days that I have left. WOW I am shocked that Cassie is pregnant!!! They just got married haha. I do know for sure that Cassie´s children will become like here lol jk!! With the colds that makes us feel the same I have a cold right now but I am getting out of it right now. I cant be sick before I get home right lol!! The plans for everyone coming and visiting sounds awesome to me!! I am excited to see everyone especially the family and at the airport that is going to be super weird to feel!! I still dont feel like my time is coming quite yet but I do feel exhausted at times. Which is weird but probably means that i am ending my mission soon.  I am super excited now to go hunting and fishing!! It should be a blast!! Also play around in Seattle with the Lawrences and Dicksons lol. They are soo awesome!!

Well this week we enjoyed working hard and finding some positive investigators. We found a positive family named Callejas Marquez and they are receptive but they go to another church but we are going to work super hard  with them to be baptized!! Then we received a family reference from the Bishop to go visit this week and they are a younger couple but we are going to find out who they are. The Bishopric really wants to help us out with the work and so I hoping to leave some solid baptisms here for my comp because the ward really needs it. I feel like the Lord really blesses us with baptisms because we have to fechas fijos for this month of a little girl and a older guy and so we are going to see how they progress. The little girl is a reference from her mom because she hasnt been baptized yet but she wants to now!! Then the older guy was a contact when my companion was on divisions and the guy received missionaries like 8 years ago and wanted a book of mormon to read so he will be a good convert!! We had some depressing moments yesterday because two investigators that we had that were progressing pretty well now dont want to go to church or be baptized. One lady we contacted named Melva who goes to another church but loves to hear the word of God. On one occasion with her we talked to her about baptism and the Holy Ghost. She said that she was already baptized which is a big doubt here haha. Well we explained the authority and the second part of baptism which is recieving the Holy Ghost. Well I pulled out a scripture in Corithians about being baptized for both and i asked her is she has received the Holy Ghost. She said no and then we felt the spirit and explained to her what is was and what we needed to do receive and she sat there for second and pondered and felt that it was true!!!!! That she needed this other part of baptism. We invited to church for this Sunday and she said that she was going to come with us!! Awesome huh!!! So then we passed by again yesterday to see how she was doing and she came to the door and said that she couldnt go to our church!!! We asked why and her son, who is a pastor, started telling her stuff and we tried so hard to talk to her about it and she knew it was true because she said that if she knew the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints first she would have  been baptized with us and thats what got me the most. Such disappoint and sadness. We stood their trying to help her understand that this is the truth and that she can have unsurmountable amount of blessings but she said she couldnt!! She was sooo ffeeling the spirit and the hard part is she made her decision which is the sadest part too!! I was heart broken!! Then the other lady she doesnt want to get baptized because she doesnt want to leave her work for the things of God. Which just topped it kind off for the day lol. AWWW!! Its so hard to have these people feel the truth and then use their agency because no one can take that away!!! Anyways thatts what has been happening in our area. Well I love you guys sooo much and I hope all of you are safe and sound. Evertime I read your letters they make me want to cry because we love each other soo much!! Love you all.

Con Amor,

Elder Hall