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