Establishing the Gospel

I can't believe it has been over three months already. It is crazy to think about.
I really didn't have any cool adventures this week, but I did have a good week. We have about 10 investigators now, and we may have a baptism or two on the 24th of this month!!  They  have to go to church for all three hours, three weeks in a row before they can get baptized. They are struggling with that. A lot of members actually struggle to stay all three hours too.They just don't quite understand yet. The church is so young here, and people aren't sure what to do. If the missionaries left the area, the branch would die in a couple months. We are going to try and get home and visiting teaching going, because right now, we and the branch president are the home and visiting teachers. So lots of work in the branch.  So that is a big part of what we are working on as we teach less active members and what not.We have been working really hard with the members because there is a lot of inactivity here. We had 74 people at church the first week I was here, then 64, 57, and last week we only had 56 people at church. So we are working on helping people become more active by being friends with them, and as we are doing that, people are giving us referrals. Pretty cool how it works!
The Lord is definitely taking super good care of me. I have been so blessed with good health, and it really isn't as hot as I thought it would be. I am learning and growing so much, and I am able to communicate okay. I am understanding much, much more, and pretty much everything that my companion says, I understand. I am doing a lot of different things than I was expecting, but when Dallin H. Oaks addressed us in the MTC, he said that we are supposed to establish the church! So that is what we are doing! Ha ha, I am having fun doing it, and enjoying serving :)