Trying to bring less active members back

Hey mom and dad,

I’m writing you right now as I am waiting for that video to load. Computers here are not of the highest technology, things take much longer. So I’m excited to see it and all the changes that are happening around, I just pray it will be done by the time I get home. Yeah, he can ride a bike now but we work in Francistown where there are lots of cars, and a lot of the times we are riding with the cars. We tried to go out one time and he nearly got murdered by a semi. Yo, I was freaked out watching him nearly getting smashed. So from that point on I said nope, you have to really, really know how to ride a bike. So it’s taking time because we don’t have much time to go out in the mornings. We only use the bikes 2 times a week though; on Tuesdays and Fridays so it’s not too bad just walking those days. I’m kinda starting to enjoy walking. Even though our area is huge its nice sometimes just taking a walk. We even take taxis sometimes when we have a bit of money, so its fine. Ha, transfers is not in a while so we’re not going to know for about another 5 weeks who is leaving and whether or not he will get residency. So there is still time.

I’m not sure how many baptisms I have, I don’t really count them anymore. But I can find out. I really have no idea what the number is. Right now though we are really focusing our efforts on finding people who are less active. We got a sheet with every single member in Francistown on it and I could not believe how big it was. If that many people came to church we would have a ward. It’s really sad at how many people are not coming. So we organized the list by areas in which people live and we go to that area on certain days and try to find those people. If they’re there or not, if they are a alive, why they’re not coming to church. So far it’s been hard but I feel like we need to really work on the core of the branch. So baptisms have not been too high.

Man I’m excited to see all the changes when I get back home. it sounds pretty sweet though.  Yeah, I’m grateful that I’m getting help from Mike on registering for school. I’m still not sure where I’m going to end up or what exactly I want to do but I still have a while to think about those things.

Thanks a lot for sending the package. Were you guys able to find any of those random things Selani wanted? If not its fine. He will just have to wait for me to send them to him when I get back. That’s sweet that so many missionaries are heading out. The work really does continue no matter what. That’s something I have realized. It does not matter who may oppose the church or who goes less active or missionaries going apostate. The work will continue with or without them and will continue to fill the earth, no matter what.

I think I’m going to mention that suggestion to our Branch President about what to do when speakers don’t show up or people end up giving 50 second talks (which happens every Sunday). The missionaries are just the default for everything. So I think that’s a sweet idea of having people go up and share their favorite songs. Because people love singing here especially in church.

About the pictures I have some bad news. For some reason my 400 pula camera decided to give up and die...I’m not sure why I guess it thought its service was over. So I can’t really take any pictures except on other peoples cameras, then send it to you guys. It’s is not a problem, there will just be less pictures. I forgot to tell you guys it’s been broken for a while. But love you guys a lot hope the video is done downloading. Take care and hear from you guys next week.

Justin