Requiem

March 22, 2010

Hi family.

I did get the CD, thanks for that, I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet since most CD players don't seem to play discs with MP3's on it but I just finished burning the talks onto regular disks so it should be good. And my belt will likely be in a my closet with all the old nasty ties, dress shirts and junk. I don't know, I can't quite remember what my closet looks like.

So we got transfer call saturday night. And I'm freaking staying here in Conroe, and my companion is leaving. This is the third time that has happened! I'm officially the King of Conroe now since no spanish missionary has ever stayed in Conroe for more than 3 or 4 transfers and now I'm starting on my 5th. But the good news is the new companion I'm getting, Elder Ordas, he's the only native spanish speaking elder in the mission, his english is pretty bad from what I hear too, he didn't go into the MTC but just came straight to the field. I'm excited to have a hispanic companion, my spanish is going to be great since we will speaking spanish all the time and everywhere.

Lately Conroe has been doing less than spectacular. Everything we've worked for this transfer seems to have crumbled into nothingness, Giovanni Dubon isn't progressing at all, we can't even get him to come to church anymore, they're losing interest and there's not much more we can do for them. Hopefully having a hispanic missionary will help out quite a bit. Giovanni's thing lately is that we (Elder Woodruff and I) were born in the chruch and we cannot possibly understand how hard it is for him to join a new church. Which is true in a way, but we've visited him with all sorts of members in the ward who are all recent converts and had circumstances similar to his.
Everyone else too seems to be slipping, I don't what we're doing wrong but everything is just crumbling. Oh well, whatever, it'll be better this new transfer with new people.


Mmmm.... Yeah, nothing interesting happened this week, just the same old grind. So.... Yeah, kind of a short and boring e-mail but that's all I got to say today. Oh and happy birthday mom, again. Austin let me know that it was yesterday on the 21st so happy 40somethingth birthday!

-- Elder Rice