May 21, 2012

We went to the temple on Friday...quite the trip honestly. It was good to be back in the temple but Thursday night we had to go stay with some Elders in San Miguel because Friday in the morning we left at like 5:30 in the morning to head to San Salvador on a private bus. It was pouring on Thursday before we left for San Miguel. It was a huge storm. The streets basically flooded and it had huge lightning and thunder.

 

Coming back from the temple was pretty interesting. The bus got a flat tire so they had to put on a spare and then went and changed that to a real tire so that we could make it back to San Miguel. When the bus was stopped in traffic working our way out of San Salvador, this lady comes up to the bus windows (it was a mini bus so it's lower) trying to sell us chocolates and she sees all the gringos (well, not me...I was farther back) but she sees some of them and she says "oh...wow....you're so handsome" (talking with them) and she started basically flirting with them trying to sell them choclates and she starts working her way back so I put my head down and act like im sleeping but I hear"oh...your eyes are so beautiful". I was like...shoot...shes talking to me...she saw them before I closed them....but no...she was talking to another elder...haha..but that was the joke for the rest of the trip...oh how beautiful your eyes!!!!

 

Also the police stopped the bus on a routine bus check stop and when the policeman stepped on the bus, the elders in front started talking to him about the church and invited him and everything. He was kind of surprised to see a bunch of missionaries on the bus.

 

The week was pretty good. We had an investigator who came to church and is on track to be baptized in June and we have been able to have good visits with some inactives. We were actually able to get attendance over 50 yesterday so we are working now to get that an every week occurance and raise it to 60. That's the plan. We talked with the Branch President asking for his help and the help of the organizations, but we haven't had the chance to sit down and share ideas, but we'll see what up. Honestly I feel good about what we are doing here. Maybe we haven't baptized a lot, but we have been reactivating. Everything helps.

 

I'm excited to get to know Sallie more in a few months...

 

Well, that's about it really...I think The biggest thing was the temple. It was fun. I can't wait to go back in 2 months...more or less...

 

I miss you and I can't wait to see you in 10 weeks...more or less :)

 

Saludddd

May 14, 2012

First off. This Friday we are going to the temple again so I don't know if that will be our P-day or not. Last time they said it was our P-day but they haven't said anything about that this time so I don't really know what will happen. So it's possible that I might be writing again on Friday or it might be Monday like always. I don t really know. I think Monday but just in case...

 

It was fun talking with the fam. How do you feel about the news you got? haha...

But...yeah...everyone looked the same except for Jenna...haha...and the girls. They are a lot bigger now. I can tell they are super active and fun to be around. Delainey is really good at talking now. It was fun having the little conversation we had. And Sallie...she's cute. Smiling and throwing kisses like that. I can't wait to get to see them again. Sallie is probably the most different but that's just cause when I left she had 1 month and just slept all the time, but Delainey is definitely different now too.

 

Yeah, I'm good with living at home. That's fine. I just asked because I didn't know. It was just a question I had. I'm fine with living at home. It's got a lot of cool stuff around it and it's 20 minutes to State and Jamie and Jenna and 20 minutes to visit with Devin. It's a good central location. It should work well I think. So don't worry...I'll be around a lot.

 

One thing I was thinking was that I know it might have been a joke about helping Bro. Hemming with his AAU team but I'd definitely do it. I think it would be fun and you know I love Bro. Hemming. It was be cool. And I think it would help me get back in shape and back in bball mode. So if I can...I'd do it. I guess we'd have to talk with Bro. Hemming.

 

Sounds like you're gonna have a crazy 3 weeks coming up. I hope it all goes well.

 

One question I do have for you is games to do during lessons...on Sundays. We are trying to make the Gospel Principles class fun and interesting and so we like do games. What are different types of games that we can do? Like ones that you have done in Seminary that worked well or other ones that you know of.

 

This week was definitely a good week. We had more people in Church then we have had before so that was fun to see. Now we just got to get them every week. haha...but it was a good step forward to see. I was definitely pleasantly surprised by what happened. We must be doing something right.

 

I don't have anything else to say really. It was fun talking with you. See you in 79 days...haha...thanks for letting me know ...

 

Hope you have a good week...love you