We're emailing on Wednesday today. I'm sorry to keep you all waiting. Hopefully nobody has had a breakdown while waiting for this email. =P
The work is going great. Most of our investigators are moving along nicely, and a few have gotten to the point where we have to really push them to keep progressing, or just drop them. I hope it doesn't come to that. We had 8 investigators come to church last Sunday, which is a record high for the last 3 transfers. We did "church round-up" before church started, and it was crazy. We had 20 people to round up, so we were all over the place, waking people up for 11:00 church. It's great that all these people came to church, but what made me the most happy is the fact that Andrew came to church. This was his first time coming to church. He's a great guy, and I hope we can teach him quickly enough to get him baptized before the end of the transfer.
Sarah also came to church. She's currently the investigator who we have closest to baptism. She's really ready for it, but is still building up the confidence to go through with it. We're shooting for this weekend, and I'm very confident that she will be baptized on Saturday.
Rednis, the Chuukese man, is also progressing well. He understands what is taught, and loves it. He just hasn't quite made the connection between what we teach and why he needs to be baptized. The lessons are mostly just Brother Herring teaching in Chuukese, and us listening and trying to follow along based on his hand motions and diagrams. Brother Herring tells us it goes well though.
That's about all for now. I hope everyone is doing well in the sweltering heat back home. I won't tell you how pleasant it's been up here, because I don't want to make anyone jealous.
I love you all!
-Elder Giles
