August just blew by! Happy Labor day! We of course had no idea it was labor day until Saturday when we couldn't find anyone home. Was the Payson parade today? How'd the marching band sound?
Let's see, what happened this week? We went up to Atwater for a baptismal interview, and I got to see two recent converts who were baptized while I was there (by the other elders). It was so cool to talk to them in Spanish and realize how much my Spanish has improved in the last 4 months. They sounded completely different!
J came to church yesterday and he was able to talk with the branch president. We realized that he thought he would be meeting with the prophet when he said to the President Estrada, "I'm going to meet with the president of the church today." So, President Estrada, being the good humored man he is walked past us with Julian and said, "We're going to go find the president of the church." It sounds like they had a good meeting and Julian said he was going to talk to his wife and we're going to follow up with him tonight. Hopefully he'll be getting baptized on Saturday!
Last week, we found a man from Florida named P. He's been going through a lot of tough things lately, including divorce, back problems, blood clots, high blood pressure, depression and other things. But that's made him really humble and he is very receptive. The other day he told us that he woke up feeling a peace, something he hasn't felt in a long time. He's been feeling better and better as we've met with him and he's begun praying every day and he wants to get baptized. He's already living the Word of Wisdom (we triple-checked on tea and coffee, because we rarely meet anyone who isn't drinking those), he's reading the Book of Mormon and he really wants to come to church. He didn't make it yesterday because he had to go to the hospital, but he's doing better.
Speaking of the hospital, I got to go to the hospital yesterday to give someone a blessing who has tuberculosis. I had to put on a gown, a facemask, gloves and go through two doors to get into the room. It was intense. He's doing well and should be home soon. He lives with a member. Apparently he's had all the missionary lessons before. I'm not sure why he wasn't baptized.
Anyway, the work is going well here. Thanks for all of your love and support!
Love,
Elder Lofthouse
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