May 23, 2011

Dear Mom,

I am feeling much better today after a strange week. I continued to have all sorts of abdominal pain and all that stuff until about Friday. Then, Saturday my comp was feeling queezie and I was fine. Then... yesterday I randomly broke out in hives all over my body and had to deal with that all day. So we were working around all of that all week long.

Despite all that, we´ve been working the best we can. Contacting mostly, but also teaching some references. None of them came to church though... Actually the meetings in church have become extremely pathetic and don´t bring the spirit. Nobody prepares talks, they are just asked on the spot. (usually the branch president, his counselors or us) We give Sunday school and then Elders quorum doesn´t even happen half the time because all the priesthood goes home after sacrament meeting. So finally, yesterday, we sat down with the branch president and had a little talk about what he could do to make the meetings better and make things a little easier on himself. We promised him that the attendance would go up if he made a greater effort to make the meetings on time and more prepared and spiritual.

There are three families that we have scheduled to meet this week that are references from some of the members. We´re hoping at least one of them is positive.

So that´s how things are going here in Joyabaj. I´ll write you next week. Thanks for the letters every week.

Love,

Elder Landon James Crapo