Thomas's Time in El Salvador

 Mon 12/13/2010 Hola familia Sounds like everything is going well back there. Everything is going pretty ..... fantastic! back here. We are going to have three baptisms this weekend! William and Rosa the young couple that a told you guys about are going to get baptized this Sunday along with a Lady called Diana Romero who is the mom of a less active member called Marvin who saw us in the street one day and came up to us and said "I'm a member of the church but went inactive for four years do you know where the chapel is here?" From the second that we stared talking to him he has returned completely to the church and we started teaching his mom who is golden! So she's going to get baptized also on Sunday! The temple is coming along really well they put the angel Moroni on this week and its basically all done just a little bit more of the landscaping work and some inside painting and it should be all set for April (supposedly that is the official date when its going to ...

 Mon 12/6/2010 Hey Everybody! Sounds like everything is going great back there. Did you guys watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional last night? That was such an amazing experience we had a whole family that we were teaching, well it was a small family just a young couple and their two year old daughter, but still we had a whole family that were investigators there watching it with us in the chapel. I could feel the spirit so strongly. Here I've been really worried that i wouldn't be able to feel so much of the Christmas spirit here because its like the fourth of July for Christmas here. Everybody goes out and gets drunk and buys a lot of firecrackers and fireworks, i mean its already starting. But when a member in our ward gave me a copy of mister crugers Christmas, and when we watched the devotional i could feel the spirit so strongly. And then last Saturday we had the baptism of Ada Villegas. She was that golden investigator i told you guys about. She got married to ...