I really don't like the snow and we got a ticket for it :( (from March 3, 2013)

hey good family

 

  So this past week was just grand. We got stuck out in the snow in Newton Iowa for Tuesday and Wednesday and it sucked. Were we parked it didn't have any signs about parking when it snows and so when we went to sleep it started to snow and in the morning it was like 6 inches on the ground and we got a ticket for parking there. Not good.

 

  We do have 2 baptisms this Saturday. Sara Rogers and Matt Schmits I'm so excited one service starts at 9 in the morning and the other at 11 so it'll be super sweet. The work here in Ames is moving right along and we set 3 more baptismal dates with investigators this past week. Jin He is set for April 20th and a new investigator named Dominique and her son Corvon for April 13th. So cool thing about Dominique. We obviously got whitewashed in and so for Jared's baptism we just went through the phone and texted everyone that was list with an a capital I in front of their name which means that they are an investiagator from the past. With Dominique she was just under there with nothing just her name and so when we texted her she said that she would meet. SO on Saturday we finally set something up with her and the spirit was so strong there. She was crying and saying that we could actually answer her questions about which church is right for her, and why didn't people just go to the same church. I have had so much fun teaching her. So we came back yesterday on Sunday, 2 days in a row and she felt it again. She read the chapter in the Book of Mormon that we left with her (2 Nephi 31) and she loved it, so we set a date for her and her son right then and there. She has lived in Ames her whole life and has been searching for a while and now that the right missionaries are there it is just all going to work out.

 

  Jin He is doing great he came to Region Conference which was sweet. It was a big broadcast from Salt Lake and Elder Craig C. Christensen spoke as well as Larry Echo Hawk and finally Dallin H. Oaks. I loved it and wow we had 4 investigators there for them to hear from an apostle of the Lord.

 

I'm really scared that I'm going to get the call this Friday saying that I'm getting released as Zone Leader and transfered away. I really don't want that to happen I love the people here and we have such good members to take care of us, even if they take pictures of me with snakes on my head. 

 

One Love all the way from Ames Iowa   Elder Gonzalez