This week we did really well. The other missionaries taught 21 lessons, and we had 17, so things picked up a ton. The mission set an all-time record for new investigators (180) this week, and we added 2 of them. Both were from part-member families that we had tried before but were more willing this time. Ricardo gave a talk this week. The doctrine was all solid, but he was still pacing around and talking with his hands a la evangelica...LOL. That investigator talked to a member who owned a restaurant about getting a job so that she wouldn't have to work sundays, and he was super rude to her and ended up turning someone else away from the church with his attitude. The missionaries were able to fix her situation, but it was still kinda rough. I have had some technical difficulties with some of them and had to throw 2 away and a third one won't last much longer. I got some beautiful new ties at a discount clothing store, and then one of them (I wore it to transfer meeting and literally got 20+ compliments on it) got stained the first day I wore it. Two of my nice brooks brothers ties also had large stains, and I was really worried about asians dry-cleaning them (I had my suit dry-cleaned in september and it looked worse after than before), but they all came out looking like new, so that was good. The wave just started this transfer, and it's really going to hit hard in march. It will be interesting.
We just heard that there were going to be 58 new missions. We actually only found out because we went to an arab international store in search of inca kola and heard it on npr while we were there. That is great that you are helping the missionaries out down there. Member work is a much better way of doing things. Our youth programs here are kind of terrible to be honest. It seems like everywhere in the stake that the leadership just really doesn't do that great of a job. That is really good that you are getting them involved in family history. We have tried to get lots of people involved, but hispanics here just aren't interested.
Elder Karlinsey
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