Loosing Your Voice Changes Your Accent

well, i had a plan about what i was going to write but then i read a letter from my sister in law Rebecca and i did some thing that i have not done for awhile (ya i am kinda crying now) but both her and her new baby are doing good from what every one has told me. and now i can't remember a thing i was going to say to every one.  

 

OK this week i was really frustrated cause i got sick and i wanted to rest and get better but i wanted to do other things more and then because i was sick my voice changed and no one could understand my Spanish.  i would always try to say some thing during a lesson but after i was done talking every one would just stare at me like i had just said every thing in English. then they would look at my comp and expect him to have understood what i had said. he didn't but he can tell what i wanted to say and he translated a bit for me.  today my voice is almost back to normal.  I still don't have the same accent i had before but it is coming back fast.  we don't really have anybody here who is progressing that much, we have people who complete all the reading we assign them but they don't want to go to church or commit to do much more than read. then we have people who come to church who we can't commit to do anything or they all have really busy schedules and we only get to talk with them once or less than once a week.  

 

we keep running into material from the Jehovah's witnesses. they keep giving it out to our members and the members want us to look over it for them. my comp explained a few thing about them to me cause i really did not know that much and he has taught a few of them. i just keep telling people to respect them cause we want to be respected as well. 

 

i went to a really spiritual baptism on Sunday it was in a different church building and the other elders thought i have a really good singing voice and the wanted me to do a solo. NOT. they need some one to play the piano and I could do that a little.

 

the baptism was of a woman who's son was shot a few months ago, he was the only member in his whole family and over the months since he was shot his whole family has started to investigate the church and they were all baptized at different times. his mom was the last one i think. not to sure about the details cause its not in my ward. but over half of their ward was there and we had over 12 people who did not have a place to sit. 

 

well that's it for now, love all you people! this church is not true because of all the funny little things this church is true because its from Christ.  and the only way to know this is to have it confirmed to you by the spirit. all the interesting little details are just supporting the fact that this is Christ's church. 

 

Elder Ritchie