What's up everybody? I hope you all had a good week. I want to thank everyone for everything that has been sent to me. A special shoutout this week to Grandpa Kent and Annette for the big box of candy and beef jerkey. That was really nice and I was really happy to get that. The week before I had been thinking, I could really go for some chocolate. They don't sell a ton of that here. And then I got a box full of it. Thanks very much. Also another shoutout to the Highland 13th ward and all the nice notes that they wrote me and the Christmas banner that they made. It's hanging up in my room. Also to Sister Nyman for that awesome Christmas book. That was really special to read that.
This week was a good week. We were having some troubles with our investigators. It felt as if they were slipping out of our hands. But we were able to teach them again and help them feel good. Alma who has a date but didn't want to get married now wants to get married. We have this exact same problem with three investigators. We could put three more real dates if they said they wanted to get married. Patricia is another of them. She is struggling with the idea of marriage. She told us that she wants to change and she wants to get baptized. Daniel is another. His "wife" wants to get married. For some reason he still doesn't want to. But if he can understand the doctrine behind it he will get married and baptized. He has been coming to church for months now. This seems to be a very big problem in this country and this culture. The people just live together for years and have kids and everything but they just don't want to get married because they are afraid that they will fight with their spouse or that everything won't go well or something like that. Alma has been living with her "husband" for 13 years now and has two kids. Patricia has two kids as well and has been living with her "husband" for eight years. It's the same with Daniel. They obviously don't understand the fact that when someone gets married their relationship is stronger and much less likely to fall apart. They also fear that their companion is not the right one. Which then brings us to the root problem which is the lack of personal responsibility and commitment. People here fear to make commitments. I've heard "No puedo decir sí porque si no puedo entonces no quiero ser mentiroso." It's good that they don't want to go back on their word or fail a commitment but the problem with that is that they end up not committing to do anything and they end up not doing anything. I'm going to try to start teaching this principle more. We learn from Preach My Gospel that the only way for people to progress and repent is to keep the commitments which we extend to them. Here is a talk that is about our personal commitment and I invite all of you to look at yourselves and see how your personal commitment and responsibility is. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1979/04/a-personal-commitment?lang=eng&query=commitment#watch=video I am going to continue to work as hard as I can so that I can bring souls unto Christ. Thanks for everything.
-Elder Rowberry
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