Ups and downs

Mum,
This has been a good week but I'll have to be brief in the
report. Luckily I've been writing in my journal so if worse comes to
worst you'll be able to read about it all later. We had a lot of ups
and downs this week. We went to teach our family home evening to our
Portuguese family only to find out that she was gonna try going to her
sister's church for a while because it was so much closer and in
Portuguese. It was really upsetting and one of the hardest
appointments of my entire mission but it ended really well. We took
our friends the Millers and taught her all about the Book of Mormon
and such. She said it was a really hard decision because she can't
see any flaws in anything that we have told her and that it has
changed her life. We all felt like this will provide her an
opportunity to recieve a very strong personal witness that its all
true. There will be no doubts and she'll be able to do everything
necessary to stay active in the church. So that was really upsetting
but we have faith it will all turn around. We had interviews this
week and I told Sister Lindley about it. She said, "She'll call you,
she has to call you. And it doesn't matter if you get that call in 10
days or in 20 years, she'll call." It was good to hear. Our other
investigators are doing really well and we had a bunch out to church
again which is always fun. This week we were even able to learn some
British Sign Language for an hour (be sure to tell McKenzie Madsen if
you get the chance). We have some members who sign and an
investigator who wanted to learn it. We had a blast. That's really
all I have to report on this week. Things are going great and I love
it all. Thanks for everything mum, sorry this is so short there's a
big queue at the library for computers. Take care, Love you!
Elder Rowley