No electricity but the Spirit still energizes. 10/22/12.

Dear Family and Friends, This week has been nuts. We haven´t had electricity for 10 days now. I even washed my clothes by hand. That was exciting. The biggest news, and the only thing really on my mind, is that our Hindu investigator Yerdis came to church with his wife and 2 kids. They read scriptures in class, made comments, and even sang the hymns better than some of the members. It was an honor to sit with them in sacrament and enjoy the primary program with them. We have an appointment with them later in the week, but it appears to me that everything is on track. They always have good questions, they read in between visits, we him and his wife together, and it is just amazing. I felt the spirit pretty strong with them in church, in fact stronger than in any other meeting. I hope they were able to feel that too. We also got a reference from a member that lives in Bavaro. His name is Wellington and he lives here in Higuey. we were finally able to make contact with him and set up an appointment. We visited him last night and he told us that he used to belong to another church, but it just didn´t make the impact on his life that he had been hoping for. So we taught him the first lesson and he was just floored. Had no idea anything like this existed. It was great to see such a response from someone who understands the gravity of our message. Well I´m off to write a few letters by hand. Our temple trip got moved to next week, and we are all super excited. With Love, Elder Nichols