HELLO!!!

hello everyone! how is everything going! i hope that all is well and that you are all happy!!

well this week has been good! we have spent our whole week tying to find some really good new investagators. and i am pleased to say that we had good success. we recieved a few really good references from members and they are good families. i don´t know why but when members help and give references the chance to baptized and everything goes up. so now we are working on a family ( orcelio, neide, and rafael). they are awesome. and they are married to. so that is a bonus. the member meire works at their house and is always telling them about the church. so they are pretty interested. i think that we will be doing a family night at their house today. and at chruch we got another family who are vilamar and eleinice. but we need to get them married first. this week we wil be working alot with a coulple of girls that went to church. thier names are mileina and mirela. they are sisters. they went to church sunday.

and for crislane and victor. crislane went to church sunday but she felt like she wasn´t all the way ready so we marked her baptism to be on wednesday. she is excited, but kind of nervous. she has fear that after her baptism she won´t be able to continue strong. but we ahve been teaching her aout the holy ghost and things are geting alot better.she really liked church sunday.

victor is probably the smartest 10 year old boy i have ever met. everything we teach him he memorizes. but since he is 10 he needs to visit the church 3 more times. it´s a new rule of our mission. but he will be baptized and will be strong.

this past week we have had zone conference and leadership conference. wow i have surely been nurtured by the word of god. it has been so inspiring to be with president batt in these last few week of his mission. the training that he gave us was amzing. and since he wont be our president when i go home he gave us all the advice that he gives a missionary that is going home in the last interview. wow it was powerful. i am definately going to miss him. but the next president is giong to be awesome too. pres batt said that if we truly love our mission then we will love the new president. so i am giong to do all that i can to love him.

i want you all to know that this is the true church. i know that the bood of mormon is the word of god. i know that joseph smith was a prophet. and i know that thomas s monson is a prophet. i know that this church and this gospel is our salvation. becasue through these things we can come to know our savior jesus christ and learn how to apply his atonement in our lifes!!

something that i have learned is how important home teaching is. please dad, do your home teaching. it is so important! i want to be faithful in home teaching when i go home. !

i love you all so much! thank you for everything! have an amazing week, and be happy!

Love Elder T. Larsen