Sincerity May Be Fatal

Dear Family,

Arg! I accidentally deleted my whole email that I was in the middle of. So this is going to have to be super fast and lame:

People Updates:

I asked special permission to call Hna Navarro about an old investigator because I was freaked out. She told me that he didn´t get confirmed because he had some Word of Wisdom problems over the weekend. His ex-girlfriend started pestering him again, which must have freaked him out because he got pretty upset and depressed, hence his reaction. He was with her for 2 years, so I guess that´s a lot of baggage to get over. But Hna Navarro promised that she will keep trying to help him and that she is going to get him to talk to the bishop. I hope he can get confirmed soon!

Hna Navarro also told me that Shandy, an investigator I found in a street contact in Hurlingham, has a baptismal date with her daughter, Tamara! And Pamela was supposedly going to be baptized yesterday! So Hurlingham is looking good!

Here in Ramos, César didn´t smoke all week! If he can keep it up he will get baptized on Saturday! Woohoo! And Andrés came to church again and is praying to know if the message is true. He arrived all by himself again, on time, in a collared shirt! He is golden! His daughter, Marilina, mysteriously disappeared to her sister´s house over the weekend and didn´t go to church, but we are going to try again to teach her this week. David and Maira came to church again this week. We taught a lesson about being children of God to them this week to try to help David with his jealousy issues. I felt the Spirit really strongly as we taught David about his divine potential. He has made some big mistakes in his life, but that doesn´t change his divine worth and potential and the Atonement is there to help him change!

Funny story of the week: I am learning from Hna Azcurra how to see the positive in other people. After a lesson in which an investigator told us that sometimes she watches her boyfriend sleep and feels like suffocating him with a pillow, Hna Azcurra said about our investigator, "She is so wonderful! I love how sincere she is!" Can´t argue that. More sincerity might be fatal.

Well, I love you! Thanks so much for your emails and prayers. Dad, your itinerary idea sounds good. Let me know if you have any questions. I hope you all have a wonderful week! Forward me Ben´s email when he writes.

Love,
Ellis