May 16, 2011

Hola family,
Sorry everyone had to be sick this week. Sounds like summer´s taking a little longer to arrive up there this year. The weather here is a little brisk, but it´s been quite nice this week. In a couple of weeks it´ll probably be pretty cold, but I´ll be leaving when it´s the dead of winter here, so that´ll be good; skip winter.

We had a pretty good week this week. Still struggling to teach lots of lessons, but we found a few really good investigators. Keiko and Salma are still progressing well, but Keiko couldn´t come to church Sunday because her mom had to work, and she had to stay and watch the little kids. There always has to be someone in the house (they live in a pretty rough area, and don´t really have anything to keep their things secure). The Primary president, Hrmna- Chalupa (there are many people in this ward with awesome names such as Chalupa), went and brought Salma on her bike, so that was really good.

We also have an investigator named Sony that´s from Peru. She hasn´t wanted to commit to baptism because she was baptized into the Catholic church as a baby, and she can´t break a family tradition. But it´s been hard to find her. She´s never there when we pass by her house. But she came to church 4 weeks in a row. Usually the hardest part for investigators is to come to church, but she keeps coming. We hope to be able to teach her today and take out a baptismal date with her. She´s really awesome, just hard to find and talks very much.

This week on Thursday and Friday, I have leadership training up at the mission offices, so we´ll have a lot less time to really work in the area. So we´ll have to do everything with the time we have. This week we´ll find out about transfers, so we´ll see if I´ll have a new area or a new companion my last month and a half. Well, I love you my little family, and I´ll communicate myself with you next week.
Love, David