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   This week was a great week and we have been having some good success.  The guy that we got married the other week and his two daughters should be baptized this Saturday.  It has been a good project getting them married and everything because it has gotten ward members more involved with his conversion and in fellowshipping.  It will be good to have a baptism this Saturday because it is the last Saturday before transfers and I am expecting I will be transferred.   

     This week we also got to do a really fun service project. We painted a wall for an elememtary school and Elder Arpon and I cut grass.  They haven't quite invented the lawn mower yet here so we used machetes.  

 Although this week was really good for missionary work and everything this week also was a week of a few disasters.  Last Sunday in the evening it rained so hard.  In one part of my area there is a neighborhood that lives by the ocean right next to a cliff.  When it rained a big chunk of the cliff broke off and smashed a house killing four people.  Everyone in the area living next to the cliff has moved out and are in an evacuation center.  

     Another even bigger disaster that happened this week was a huge fire that destroyed a neighborhood in my area.  I don't think anyone was killed though but we did have a few investigators living there.  One of these investigators was a 79 year old man who was great to teach and he liked listening to us.  I felt really bad for him because his house was completely destroyed.  Everyone in this place has either moved or is living in a covered basketball court.

     

Pictures: 1  Our investigator the day before his house burned down.  Afterwards we were able to give him another book of mormon.

2  The damage from the fire.

3  Service project this week.

4  Weeding out grass

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Love, Elder Harkness