May 2, 2011

Hola familia,
Sounds like everything´s still going well in the land of Utah. That´s awesome about Mikayl'as game winning drive; sounds like Danny Ainge´s game winning drive against Notre Dame in the sweet sixteen; dribble right through the whole defense. Sounds like your ball control must be getting pretty solid. That´s awesome. You already have a big advantage to get on the high school team next year.

That´s crazy about Osama Bin Laden. After 10 years, the search has ended. Hopefully it ends problems and doesn´t create new ones. That´s crazy about Dallin´s mission call too. That´s cool he´ll go to the same country as Tyler. (David's good friend Tyler Tinkham will be returning from Honduras in June and his brother will leave for Honduras in August.) On Mother's Day, I think we´ll probably try to call like between 3:30 and 5ish here (should be 12:30 to 2 your time, but the time difference changes with daylight savings time, so you´ll probably have to look the time up on the internet to make sure.) Mother´s Day came up super fast. And it´s Christi´s birthday Wednesday, too.

We had a good week this week. We were able to find a lot more new people to teach than we had been doing in the past weeks, and were able to take out baptismal dates with Keiko and Salma for the 28th of May. Salma is eleven and she has been in the hospital almost all of the last week, but she got released yesterday. She´s super skinny like Mom and was having lots of health problems, and now they´ve diagnosed her with Celiac disease. So I was able to tell them a little more about it and what you always eat. She´s not very excited, but I´ve actually seen a gluten-free store in our area. I´ll have to pass by and see if there´s any Argentine good gluten-free stuff to bring back (don´t know if the English worked out on that one). Keiko has lots of doubts about baptism, but she has the goal of the 28th, and we hope that through keeping the commitments, praying, reading, and coming to church that she can really receive an answer, and that Salma can also feel the truth and make it to the baptismal goal they have.

Marta´s still going strong. We taught another one of her friends this week in Marta´s house, but she didn´t want to listen a whole lot. She tried to flee when we started with a prayer, but Marta was able to keep her there, and we had a pretty good listen. She says she wants to listen, but she´s never going to change. But if she really reads and prays to know the Book of Mormon is true, I know that she really will feel the need to change and have the courage to do it. We weren´t able to teach Noemi and her family this week, but we talked with the daughter María Luz once at the gate, and she´s been reading every day in the Book of Mormon, and is really excited. But every time we stop by, her Mom has been in the doctor´s, or just not home, so we haven´t been able to teach her at all. But we pray that this week we´ll have more opportunities, because she really wants to participate in church, and she loves the Book of Mormon (She is the daughter that is 11 years old.)

Well, I love you guys and I'll talk to you this Sunday...
Love, David