9/29 Letter

From Joram's 9/29 Letter:

"Bernardo and Jacklyn are doing great, we didn't baptize them because the dad wasn't ready but we are hoping this week that after confrence they will all be ready. He loves church and always asks questions, so that is good and sunday school turns into discussions and our teacher is way good at answering them and he seems content. There son that is Jaces age loves church and wants to get baptized and wants to set the example for his dad."

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"I am picking up some italian and portugese and french while i am here, they are all very similar and i can understand italian very well, so thats cool"

Neat Family

From Joram's 9/22 Letter:

"We are working with a ton of cool people.
First we have a family of 3 that we tracted into that are amazing. Bernardo, Jacklyn and their 11 year old son Allen are the most ready people and willing to accept i will ever see. They have the attitude of "well its hard but its from God so it will help me" with everything, word of wisdom, chastity, tithing, everything so that is good. They also bring one of their neighbors with them to church. I was thinking about how we were lead to them and how everything was perfect timing. His mother just died on Saturday and it is amazing how perfect that 2 days before we taught them the plan of salvation. We went over on saturday and just said a prayer and the spirit was so strong there."

Gustav

From Joram's 9/9 Letter:

"Alright i don't even know where to start, it has been a crazy few weeks and i have about a thousand emails to answer so let see. This has been insane. One friday the 29 or something we evacuated New Orleans and headed up to Baton Rouge, they put all of us in a different missionaries house. We ended up in a city called Gonzolas about 10 minutes south of Baton Rouge. We were staying with quite a few different missionaries. Pretty much every pad has anywhere from 6 to 8 missionaries. On sunday we had an abreviated Sacrament Meeting and then were on lock down in members homes until Tuesday. We didn't get hit bad at all where we were at but pretty much every other area got nailed. New Orleans didn't get anything but Baton Rouge was hit pretty dang hard. So since then we have been going out in our yellow Mormon Helping Hands shirts and helping the members and pretty much everybody else. Its been quite interesting and also it has been a interresting change from prosliting everyday to serving. It was wierd to put a white shirt and tie on yesterday for the first time. On sunday we had church in our yellow shirts on the hill of the stake center looking at the temple. It was pretty cool, we had Elder Gay of the 70 come and talk to us so that was cool.. So yeah this week has been crazy. After Tuesday we moved out of the members homes and have been cramped 8 to an appartment with out power until Saturday. So that was nice to get AC back again. ... With the hurricane we were supposed to have transfer calls a week ago, but we just barely got them last night. I am staying in metairie, which is was cool, we have tons of good investigators so that is cool."

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