Quarenta Horas 4

Hello!
This week was good.  We ended up having a baptism this week of a young kid that loves the church.  He has two older brothers that have made some bad decisions and have some pretty bad addictions and he saw how much those decisions hurt their lives and knew that entering into the church would be able to give him a guide to success.  It was good to teach him and he is great friends already with the young men in the ward.  He even told us to pray and ask that his brothers can see his example of being baptized and that they will try to follow as well.  We tried to teach them, but they usually aren't too interested in listening, but I know his example already made his mom very proud.  We have some other people planned to baptize in the next couple of weeks that are very cool and are progressing well.  Nothing too crazy happened this week, but we did have a fun ward party for a holiday here and there was lots of cultural dancing and food so that was tasty; and lots of visitors came.  I'm still trying to get those pictures from the bike ride at the park and hopefully I can get them out as soon as possible.
Love,
Elder Holcomb

[We were able to talk to Isaac today and he mentioned his new mission president arrived.  He says it's his 4th mission president since he's been on his mission.  The first one was almost done serving when Isaac arrived, then the second one ended up getting sick and was released, the third was just filling in until the 4th could arrive.  Isaac said a lot of people talk about their mission president being like another father to them, but he has never really built that kind of relationship with the short time mission presidents have been there.  What he has learned is that the church has given enough guidelines with Preach My Gospel and the handbook so that he can keep working and keep moving forward with direction even though the leadership changes.]