WE FINALLY HAVE CAMBODIAN INVESTIGATORS!!!

This picture was taken right before transfers last week. (Me, Elder Langford, Elder Swayse, and Elder __________) Elder Swayse transferred from our apartment to CT.

If you can't tell from the subject of this email, I'm pretty excited for our new investigators! I already talked about the Cambodian family we started teaching (the husband and wife are named Pat and Phoeun), and we also have another new investigator named Nuen. Of course, those names aren't actually spelled like that. I'm doing the best I can to put them into English! Yesterday, we brought Bro. and Sis. Sen (the only active Cambodian members in our ward) to our lesson with Pat and Phoeun, it was pretty great! It was wonderful to hear Sis. Sen's testimony of the Book of Mormon. I may get frustrated at my efforts to master this language, but I'm loving it more and more!

ALL of our progressing investigators came to church yesterday, along with a couple who aren't exactly progressing yet. It was awesome to have everyone there! A couple of our new investigators accepted baptismal dates as well! One is a woman from Morocco named Hafsania, and another is a 9-year-old boy named Sergio - his dad is an inactive member who is turning his life around, and now his son wants to learn and be baptized! =D

Darline had us over for dinner last night - it's so great to see her and her son flourishing as new members of the Church. They had two or three other families over as well - it was practically a party, with a TON of traditional Haitian food. We had a good time, and I'm excited to see them continue to progress.

I'm learning so much about life, about myself, about our Savior, and about the gospel. I'm finally learning how to grow and improve and change to be the man that our Heavenly Father wants and needs me to be. Most of the credit for this goes to the Spirit of course, but a large chunk goes to my companion, Elder Langford. I am learning so much from him, and the both of us are really growing. I'm technically his trainer, but I forget that most of the time. I'm grateful for the opportunity to grow into the man, missionary, and eventually husband and father that I'm supposed to be. Often times I feel like this mission is as much to help me as it is to help these children of God whom I have the privilege to serve.

Best wishes and much love,
Elder DeLong