January 23rd

Hello Family!
    Man, it sounds like you were, or still are, having a blast in
Costa Rica.  How come now that I went on a mission you´re going on all
of these trips all over the World? haha. 

     This week was awesome, most
of our appointments fell out, so we got to have time to find new
investigators, and we did =)  We got 4 new investigators this week,
and we have lessons planned out with 3 other families. I´ll tell
you a kinda weird story about how we found one of our investigators
haha. 

     So, it started like 2 weeks ago.  Elder H and I had just
finished getting something from the bank, we started to leave, and
this lady asked us to help her get her Kinderwagon down the steps.  We
helped her out and then started to talk about her baby, and about the 

family.  We gave her a 'Proclamation on the Family' pamphlet and she
got really excited.  She wouldn´t give us her number, but, she asked
us if our number was in there because she might want to call us.  We
told her it was, and then walked away and didn´t think much more about
it.  Then, about 30 minutes later, we got on a bus to go to an
appointment.  As we got off, we saw that she had been in the bus, and
got off at the same stop.  We had to cross the street to get to our
lesson, but, we may or may not have payed really close attention to
where she went, haha.  She ended up going into a big complex of houses
right across the street from where our lesson was, so, we decided we
would do some doors in that neighborhood and possibly find her.
 

     2 Weeks later, we had been dooring that area and we were almost
done.  We had already found 3 new families there so we were super
happy that we decided to work there.  We doored this one guy named
T, he said he didn´t have much time because he had to take care of
his new baby, he then invited us in to see his new son.  The baby was
3 weeks old.  We talked to him about the family and made out an
appointment to meet with him.  We met with him last night, and his
wife is the lady that we met at the bank 2 weeks before!  Both of them
want to learn and are super awesome.  So, basically stalking is a
missionary tactic.

    Another cool story, we met an awesome family a couple of weeks
ago.  We had already had a lesson with the Father before and he said
he wanted us to meet with his whole family, but, he was always SO
busy, it was hard to make an appointment out.  We went by on him
randomly this week to see if we could catch the family at home.  We
could hear someone on the phone, but, they wouldn´t answer the door.
We were getting ready to leave, when Elder H dropped his umbrella
on the door.  It was SO loud.  The Father heard it, opened to door,
let us in, and then finished his phone call with his mom in Africa
haha.

    Things are going great out here, we want to start baptizing
people, but, whenever we get someone to say they want to get baptized,
they can´t ever get over an addiction to whatever.   Luckily
none of our new investigators have those problems haha.  Thanks for
your love and support, you´re awesome!
 
Elder Collings