Newsy letter from Edrew.

January 17th and a long, newsy email from Elder Bellomy. In fact it is one of the longest letter of his mission.

For starters, he promises to write longer letters home...that will be great.

After two very busy weeks without the chance to do a lot of missionary work.

He and his companion are teaching two sisters (Lucia and Sandra) who originally took missionary lessons in Mexico City. They have testimonies and are getting ready to be baptised. Sandra loves the Gospel Principles lesson book. She said that "If the whole world would live the teachings of this book, it would be a great place."

The companionship also had this experience this week:

"Meanwhile in our area we are still teaching the Grants (the couple that got married a few months back).  Elder Peterson and I weren't sure if she was prepared for baptism but we went through the baptismal questions with her and took a member.  We all felt she and her son were ready.  So we prepared a baptismal service for Sunday (16 Jan.).   It was the best baptism I have ever had.  The Sugar Land 1st ward is amazing!  Powerful talks on baptism and confirmation.  The room was full.  The Bishop who married them did the baptism.  After she got baptized she yelled, "Yay!" ha ha it was really funny.  While she and Cullen were getting changed Elder Peterson and I taught the Restoration of the Gospel (Lesson 1).  It flowed really well and was really spiritual.   And as exciting and great the baptism was, the fantastic things just kept on going.   There is a family in the ward that is just awesome.  They are way strong, the mother is a convert from Orthodox Judiasm, the kids are all really intelligent and musically gifted and really spiritually inclined.  But the riddle the ward has been trying to crack for 10 years since the mother's baptism is why the father hasn't been baptized yet...even though he has come faithfully to church with his family for the last 3 years.  HE EVEN COMES WHEN SHE DOESN'T!!   Well, the oldest son was playing the piano for the baptism so the mother and father were there...after the baptism as everyone was mingling I walked over to the father and started a conversation.  He started asking questions about the "discussions"...and asked if we could teach him the discussions.  I was floored!" 

It was a good week for missionary work in Texas!