LIVING WATER

Muchas holas a todos!!!

That's funny that it's freezing cold down in the OC because it is still pretty dang hot here in Los Ángeles! Summer weather is still going strong but now that we are going to be entering March, things should start cooling down here pretty soon. School starts up again this Thursday for kids here so thank goodness people will be coming back from vacation now. As for as how the work is going here.. a little slow. Actually we had just had consejos here in LA with all of the district and zone leaders of the mission and not only was it a rough month for us and our zone, but it was a rough month for the whole mission. But it's nothing to get disanimated over because that just makes things worse. So we are just going to keep on working hard and keep animating the zone so we can have a killer month in March.

In our sector we found a lot of good potential new investigators and have started
reteaching some old investigators from past missionaries that show some promise but all of our best investigators are still tied up in vacation stuff! But that's ok cuz it's all going to be over very soon. We have a couple that got married a couple of weeks ago that are going to start going to church again and get baptized when they get back to LA and we have at least two other investigators that are pretty good that can get baptized in March so we are doing our best to work with them while at the same time always looking for new people to teach.

Also Elder Bustos and I are working more on what aspects of the work we are focusing most on and different ways to work that I think are going to help out our sector and the zone a lot. Our sector where we work has an excellent ward with excellent members and awesome leaders but it is pretty well off money wise so the people here aren't as humble and accepting when talking to them in the streets and knocking doors. So we are going to start focusing more heavily on working with ward members and leaders in the ward here to get better results. The members are awesome here so we need to take advantage of their disponility (i dont think that's a word) and willingness to work to help us out here with the work. I think that by working with them and the incomplete families that we will start to see a lot more success here.

But besides that, we are still working very hard and are happy. My companion is a great missionary and I'm glad to be working with him; we still get along just fine. There's a lot of work to be done here and there are only two weeks left in this cambio..sigh.. Well hopefully President Swenson will leave us together for another cambio. Ok, well honestly I don't really have much left to say for this week as it wasn't that eventful but we did have a very spiritual experience teaching a friend of a member of the ward who is kind of an eternal investigator. We taught her the story from the Bible when Jesus teaches the Samaritan woman at the well about the difference between the water from the well and the living water that He has to offer us. The water of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the water of which if we drink, we will thirst no more. So we taught her about how she can partake of this water and invited her to do so. The spirit was felt and she went to church the next day with her friend so we will see how things go with her this week. Well everybody I really don't have anything more to say for this week jaja. Sorry, next week's email should be more interesting. OH and one more thing is that yes, Alvaro did end up getting baptized which makes me very happy =). Ok well I love you all very much and until next week ciao ciao!!!!

con mucho cariño, Elder Harper =)

Helaman 5:12, http://www.ldsscripturemastery.net/scriptures/helaman-5-12.html. We used this scripture as well in the lesson with the girl and she liked it a lot as do I. Read it; it's a good one.