Family,
It sounds like you are all doing well & I'm glad that the funeral service was nice. I appreciate the pictures & e-mails, as always. Me & Elder Glines are looking at them right now talking about how much we miss the red rock. There is nothing like it here. St. George is such a beautiful place to live. Of course I miss it at times, but I live in another part of the world that is equally as beautiful, just in a different way. I'm actually pretty happy because it has been pretty cool this week. In fact, it's overcast & rainy today, so I am completely content.
I mentioned last week that there are going to be 2 new zones opening in the mission that are being taken from the Bacolod mission. I don't remember what I told you all about it, but they are the San Carlos & Escalante zones. This will give us 14 new branches & 2 districts. That's great news! They are both on Negros, about 2 hours or so from my last area, Bais. They are white-washing the area so 40 missionaries from our mission will be assigned to open the new areas. I am very excited & would be happy to be a missionary to serve there.
Work has been great this week! We are working with Jenny, who actually goes by Chen-Chen, as I mentioned in previous letters. She is still progressing, but unfortunately she is kind of hard to get a hold of. We aren't able to teach her as much I would like to, but every time we do, the lesson is always great. In the next lesson or two, we are planning on inviting her to be baptized. Hopefully she accepts!
Last night, we went to a part members home to teach. We were able to teach the mother (a very active member), & two of her daughters, one of which is baptized & active. We taught about baptism & the girl had a lot of questions which is great! Usually the people don't have questions because they are either shy or don't really understand. They are a very smart family. The mother is a teacher & knows English very well, but of course we teach them in Cebuano. The one girl had many questions about the Book of Mormon, prayer, life, etc. It was really great to discuss with her about these things & as we did so, you could see that it was making sense & she was happy that she finally was getting answers to things that she had wondered for so long. At the end of the lesson, we invited her to be baptized...& she accepted! I am very happy. We still have a lot of work to do, though. I also want to teach her husband who is not a member, & I would like them to be baptized together. It's much better if they are baptized together so that they can have a support system. More often than not, if only one of them is baptized they will be in active soon thereafter. We have taught him once & it went well. The problem is that he works a lot & his job is far away so I fear that they will struggle keeping the commitments that they need to in order to be baptized. But of course we are praying very hard for them & I am confident that they will be baptized, even if I am again not there to witness it.
That's about it! I'm sorry that I am the worst at sending pictures, but as soon as I get my camera charged I will send lots! Love you all!
Elder Staheli
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