9/29/08 ELDER COLVIN‏

Well Well Well....
Things are going exactly to my design


Hello family,
How are ya'll?
I'm Fine
I received a letter from.....Sarah this week. Thank you mucho mas.
We have recently found two very nice families.=20
I'm so excited for this! One is a lady from Brazil who married a guy from h
ere and now they both live here.=20
It's funny but I can almost understand Portugeese.=20
We were reading the Introduction to the Book of Mormon.=20
I've heard many times in spanish but it was really neat to hear it in 'Port
ugues' as the Spanish say.=20
It was almost the same with a few different words and pronunciation.
The other was this family of three in a trailer.
They come from Cuba.
(OK I'll stop the whole 'new line for every new sentance thing, it hurts to=
read')

Anyway, they are nice and they are reading the Book of Mormon. It's all goo=
d. Well my Spanish is coming great. I have a goal to speak it by this tr=
ansfer, that's only two more weeks. It's going to take some miracles. The=
whole learning process has been a big miracle for me. I can't wait for =
general conference this week. That'll be good. Well not much else to say =
except I would always love it if I got more letters please. Thank you my =
wonderful family. !Hasta la Vista Bebe!
Elder Colvin


Elder Jacob Colvin

....yup

Hello units of friendship (I'm trying to mix up my vocabulry).
we had our interviews this week. Our Mission President talked about raising our game and becoming more like disciples and less like Pharisees. It was good. I forgot again the names of those other two cd's that we can listen to. This week we had found a great new person. he is named Orvin. he is very humble and willing to hear what he had to say. On Saturday we met with him over at a member of the church'es home. we found out that the member (Bro. Cecilio) and Orvin work together, so they hit it off rather well. we had a great spirit filled lesson and I felt inspired to commit him to baptism on the 4th of Oct.. he said yes! It was really great. With all solid investigators there comes these random out of nowhere trial(s) that try to get in the way of them getting baptized. Orvin's work called him in at the last minute so he didn't make it to church on Sunday. However, the work go forth boldy nobly and independent and He'll be at church this week. I think it was for the best anyway, that we didn't have to deal with a baptism during General Conference week. Either way God is over all and, despite the battles, God will win the war.
Elder Ludlow is a missionary that lives with me. He just said to me that his mom hates Motorcycles , but he read that she rode one the other day for the very first time. Go and do

dearest Everyone I know

hey,
hello,
hello hello hello!


There was a certain classical song I had in mind when I was writing that.
Well hello my loved family. Thank you so much Grandma for your letter I always love hearing from you. This week has been great. We've been working hard to make up for Hurricane Gustav. Hurricane Ike didn't do much here. We only had our power out for a night. It was a week with Gustav. We just got a little wind and some rain. Like I'm annoyed that Gustav interrupted us here but I was a little happy I got to experience one on my mision. It was a torn feeling. So much good came from it though. We had so many people just thanking the heck out of us for coming and clearing their trees out for free and there were lots of people asking questions about our church. It was cool. What's really funny is that I heard from a member here that after Katrina in 05' the media did a survey on which churches helped the most with aid/relief efforts. Well the Statiscs were : 1st place "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", 2nd was "The Mormons". I love it. I'm so glad that we were able to help so much. anyway I forgot to mention something last week.
At our last Zone Conference we got new rules regarding music. ugh hmm; We Can now listen to EFY cd's and Two other things which names escape me at this moment. If you want to, could you Please send me some EFY Cd's. I would be very happy. Thank you. This week we found a bunch new investigators. It's amazing that if we just go and do it the Lord will put people in our path way Everytime. I'm happy to know that, what a blessing it really is to know that. If we just do our best and rely on Jesus We will accomplish more than we ever thought possible. Well times running short again and eyes are hurting. BYE
Elder Colvin

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC

it's a me!‏

Hello Everyone far and near,
It's been way too long since I have written you guys.
Gustav was the cuse of that. 1st of all I am fine.
I have NO time this week because I had to go thruogh a BAZIILION emails but heres is a shortened version of my last 2 weeks;

thank you 4 the package I loved it
I got it before Gustav
I stayed with a wonderful family called the Bascoms
We played ate and slept mucho
At Zone Conference I found out that Luz and Rienhard from New Olreans (my previous area) were Baptized !
Last Monday (sept1), Gustav hit and we had no power
Tuesday, we moved to Sister Bascoms Parents House (for A/c)
Wednesday, I dropped off Elder Romero at the Mission Office and Elders Pauyne and Wilks were my temporary companions for the rest of the week
Thursday, I worked with Mormon Helping Hands and went all around Baton Rouge Looking for people that needed help taking trees out of their lawns and off of their houses
Friday, Same
Saturday, Same
Sunday, We had little Sac. meeting and Elder Gay of the 70 was there, then we did more service
Monday (sept 8), nothing too exciting
Tuesday, tada I'm here with you

soo that is that. I was told by many residents that this was the worst that they've seen a hurricane take out Baton Rouge Ever. It was only a Cat 1 when it hit here. Imagine if it was bigger. I thank the Lord that it was what it was. This place got pounded!
Good bye and I love you
Elder Colvin