11-21-11

Dear Family,
How is everything going? Thanks for all the letter and everything. I really appreciate them. Well, here is the story from this week. so, we got a member reference and she lives below some members that moved into the branch recently. Her name is Carla, so we prayed and we thought that we should mark her for baptism with a date on the very first appointment. So, we go there and her boyfriend whom she is living with is there but he doesn´t want anything because he says he already has listened to the elders before. So, we mark her and it turns out that the date that we picked was the date that her members friends are going to be married. Well, we said we would talk to them and decide what to do. Well, we go to a branch activity that night and her member friends come and talk to us and they tell us that she is actually still married to her ex-husband and that she needs to still finalize the divorce but he doesn´t wanna sign the papers. We also found out her boyfriends is a member of the Church, he was baptized about 10 years ago because he just wanted to experiment and see how it was. And he even told this to the elders who baptized him. And he was baptized and never returned to Church. So, that was a big shock. But her biggest problem is that she needs to get divorced from her husband and then she needs to get married to her boyfriend now or leave him. But I think that she will have the strength to overcome all her problems and be batized. She has a real desire to better her life and everything.
Well, thanks for all you guys do for me and all the love. I will be staying her in Vila Real for another 6 weeks.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen