April 25, 2011

My birthday didn't feel like a birthday at all honestly...real boring. But to make it a good day we had a baptism. I was in the area of the ZLs because one was doing interviews in our area Saturday and we couldn't change back Saturday night...it's like 15 minutes walking to their area...so it's not bad...just uphill. Haha...so Sunday we changed back at 6 am. It was a long day. But we baptized.

I have gotten a package from Jamie and Devin and that's it.

Ouch about the toe...hope it gets better quickly...that sucks...haha.

And yup, this week is changes. I think they might be crazy...apparently we are opening two new zones because the departamento de La Libertad is huge...And I don't think we brought in that many missionaries this change, so they might be closing some areas...but maybe the zones are small. who knows. Haha...lets see...we got a new mission president. David Glazier. So that's cool.

Oh yeah, so Hermana Perez called me last night to wish me happy birthday, so I was talking with her for like 10 minutes. We just talked about you guys, how things are going, life basically, then at the end she told me to pray for the new mission pres and obviously Pres. Perez so I guess it shouldn't surprise me that we found out today we got a new one. Haha.

And it's starting to rain...It rained like Wednesday and Saturday...Wednesday was hilarious because we were teaching the person we baptized, and her family just gets up and starts like gathering things. (We had just finished the lesson) We were like...what's up? They tell us it's gonna rain...so we are like what? They are like...yeah, listen. Sure enough you could hear the rain coming, so we said good bye and ran to the cook's house and made it just in time before it started pouring.

And this week I was on divisions 3 times. Once with E. Hardman and the other two with Elder Beckett one of the ZLs...Elder Beckett is from NC as well so it's been real fun to get to know him. He's from just outside of Asheville. Funny as heck this guy. But he'll probably leave because this is his 3rd area in this zone. He has had 9 months here...not consecutive but collective. He'll go home in November.

With Hardman, I actually had cold cereal and milk...so simple...so good.

We also painted a house this week. Like the outside. It actually looked pretty good. It was painted with water paint I think. We cleaned the outside first with water, and the old paint was coming off...I was like...uh...why are we doing this right before rainy season? Haha. But yeah, it looked good. They painted it like some pink color. I hope the rain doesn't destroy too much of our work.

And last but not least...we baptized.

Carolina de la Paz Sura Quintanilla.

SO much stuff happened this week to make it happened. It was nuts. So many things happened to make it happen. I'd call it a miracle. I'll just say that basically two weeks ago my comp and I dropped basically everyone we had including her because she was together with someone who didn't want to get married. Like a week ago we passed by to visit with her sister and she told us that Carolina had left her boyfriend...so we started visiting with her again and we got it done. We were so close to baptizing 4 this week. One time the mom didn't give permission and with the other the boyfriend she had that hadn't been around for weeks showed up again and was living with her, so we couldn't baptize her and her daughter...just bad luck man.

But yeah that was my week

Love you guys and miss you

Elder Gilreath