November 15, 2010

Hola familia,
Sounds like a fun week up there. I´m glad everything´s going well with basketball and volleyball. Too bad you had to leave before the end of the last set. It probably made the difference for the other team to pull out the win. (Mikayla had to leave her church region volleyball game in the 3rd game because of basketball. They ended up losing by 4 points).

And BYU is finally pulling it back together. They should be decently good this next year. That shootout sounds awesome. (Dean helped organize a shooting camp for our ward on Saturday). It would be cool to shoot a fully automatic. I got the Halloween package last week and the candy was super good.

This week we had an awesome experience with Nora, the Bolivian investigator that came to Stake Conference this last week. On Tuesday we took a sister from the ward with us to go and teach her. She had felt super good in conference and all that Sunday she felt a peace. She read a ton and felt like she was receiving an answer, and the spirit was there very strong. We were able to set a baptismal date with her for the 4th of December and she is super excited and came to church this Sunday. She says she knows that that´s what she needs to do and that although she won´t be working on Sundays, that God will provide everything she and her family needs. Her daughters are still learning, but they don´t want to give up the partying and the drinking with their friends on the weekends. But hopefully they´ll continue to see the changes that Nora is making and be able to take steps towards coming to Christ also.

Saturday we did service at Patricia's house, the sister that we baptized about 2 months ago. All the houses here are made of big orange hollow bricks and when they want to do a second story they have to make a cement roof, but they don´t have big trucks or machines like we do so it´s a grand ordeal. You have to mix sand and gravel and another powder to make the cement, then pass bucket for bucket for the guy that´s up on the roof spreading the cement. So I stood on a table, and passed all of the buckets full of cement to a guy on the roof and then he would pass it to the guy that would pour it and level it. It was fun, but a back killer. It´s hard for them to understand that we make our houses from wood, because they all do their houses this way. But the material makes it so the houses are super hot in the summer and super cold in the winter. Maybe someday insulation and sheetrock will make it down here, but it´s probably way more expensive than the materials they use.

Everything´s going good here. We´re excited for Nora. She´s super excited for her baptism coming up, and we hope to find a lot more new families to teach this week, and keep improving in everything that we´re doing.


Well it was good to hear how everything´s going up there and I hope everything goes well this week and we´ll talk again next week.
Love, David