July 11, 2016 - Bengaluru, Whitefield

Hello! Another week come and gone....Time is flying and counting down....I'm honestly getting a little bit excited about what will happen in three weeks. So don't worry mom...i am ready to come home;)  (I was a little worried that he likes India so much that my decide just to stay there...:)

But anyways this week we traveled with the new mission president to Chennai and Vizak so that was cool to see those places and missionaries one last time.  Travel is pretty exhausting though!!! And this week we might be going to Hyderabad to check it out one last time as well.  

Other than that a pretty normal week this week.  Teaching our normal investigators, and we made plans to meet some more members this week to try and get some more referrals and people to teach. People have been telling us that they have a few friends that they are thinking about, so looks like the ward is trusting us a lot better now.  So that is a step in the right direction.  

Sailakshmi and Muthulakshmi are doing really well. Both have baptism dates for this month.  The other investigator we are teaching is named Vanitha.  She is doing okay.  She will probably take some time, but we really see some great potential in her as we visited her this week.  She is just in a prime position to accept the gospel as she is having family difficulties and confusion and trials, so we know the gospel can/will help her if she accepts.  The first thing she needs to start doing is read the Book of Mormon.  Sailakshmi is golden.  She always reads our assignments and is understanding so well.  

Other than that, not sure what else to say except that now all the other NBA teams will be playing for 2nd it looks like! haha.  Should be interesting to see.  Thanks so much for your support and love throughout this time so far.  I hope you will enjoy the new me.  As far as things i want to do...definitely i want to eat at Flying Pie and.....Buffalo Wild Wings!!! But i want to see some friends and family and stuff you know, the usual.

Love you guys lots!!!

Elder Ball

Traveling in style from the airport in Chennai with Pres. and Sis. Mortensen

View from the Elders' apartment in Visak.