Disclaimer! This is Lindsey, Kelsey's sister. I know I've been terrible at updating her blog recently. My bad. Here are all of her e-mails from January and February. And, just as a reminder, she comes home the end of June, and I'm sure she would love to hear from you before then! Her address, once again is:
Sister Kelsey Berg
Texas Houston South Mission
602 Eldridge Rd.
Sugar Land, TX 77478
So write Kelsey a letter! you know you want to!
Hey everyone!
I hope y'all had a good week! We had a pretty decent week and it all ended with a pretty lucky baptism! So as I told y'all before, when the De Hoyos' records came in Bryan (12) didn't have a baptismal date and we couldn't find any other record or anything of his baptism so he had to get baptized again! The lucky kid. It was the easiest thing ever, when you have a fantastic family- not perfect by any definition- but a family that loves to come to church and wants to improve, all you have to do as the missionaries is make sure the baptism happens and make sure to get the date and everything is filled out correctly this time- ha ha. Because of Bryan's baptism it was a very good weekend, yet at the same time it was very frustrating because we went into Sunday with some good solid commitments from people to come to church... and yet none of them showed up. It puts me right on the edge of giving up and throwing all of them out the window and starting over... but then I take a step back and cool down and try to have more patience with them. This is when it gets difficult, they are reading the Book of Mormon and doing the things we ask them to do, yet they don't come to church and that is where the real progression takes place. You see their progress with reading the Book of Mormon and all the things like that, but if they don't come to church after making the commitment you have to do a self-evaluation and see what things you can do different to help them come to church, or you see that you have done all you can and that they are using their agency and choosing not to come to church; or that they really aren't prepared for the gospel at this time in their life. It is with decisions like this that you really have to use your faith in the Lord, that if you pray about it and do all you can He won't let you drop someone who really is ready. Anyway, our Investigator Weekly is full of kids this week!
Victor: He is 9 and they live on our border with Missouri City, 2 of his uncles live on our side of the border with their families and are now coming to our branch. They all want to come to church together so they have received that permission to come, which means that Victor was passed to us! He has been taught everything and now only needs to come to church twice so he can be baptized on February 4th. Well... early Sunday morning his mom had her baby so he didn't come to church... hopefully this week though. They are the greatest family though and all 3 families are so funny. He is a great kid and I'm excited to keep teaching him!
RJ: Well... things have been a little slow with him recently because they were busy last week so we couldn't meet with them and then on Saturday night they had a late night and they slept through the alarm for 9:00am church. We are planning to meet with them tomorrow and I hope that things will start to pick up again. He is a great kid though, we just have to help his mom strengthen her testimony so that church will be a bigger deal to her, which in turn will mean that he comes to church. I hope to have a really good report for them next week.
This week was pretty cold out here in Texas, we rode bikes a lot this past week and on Thursday it was like 50 degrees and with the wind it was about 35. It was so cold and I froze, but its all good because that is what a mission is all about! Sweating your brains out for a couple months and then about 4 months later feeling like a popsicle as dogs chase us on bikes down a dirt road in an area with of trailers where everyone we talk to is a Jehovah's Witness... oh the life of a missionary. Things are going well out here though and the work continues to progress and I continue to learn that I know absolutely nothing about how anything works. The days and weeks go by and I end each day hoping that I made even the littlest of difference in my small part of the vineyard. I hope that everything is well with y'all. I love and miss y'all! Have a great week! Go Cougars! :)
Love Always,
Sister Kelsey Berg
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