Letter Dated December 26, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

QueQuen

Well it was good to talk to you guys for a little while, the time goes by fast huh, ha ha.

So I sent all the pictures you guys haven't seen yet, I don't think I really take very many pictures, but o well.

So, yea,  just some random ones.  My companion with the paper....the paper is our fly swatter, its covered in dead flies.  It's pretty gross.

Then some pictures of us at Mar Del eating lunch with half the mission.  You  can see the President and his wife, and the Senior missionaries,  and the cook with the Asado.  We ate a lot of meat.  Then the futbal court we played on.

Some more pictures of the soccer place, then the place where we played basket ball and volleyball. Little kids where there when I took the picture but I was playing, not taking pictures, ha ha.  Oh and you can see Elder Vauterlaus from the MTC.  Then that night we had a talent show and a small dinner with treats, and a gift from the misson President for everyone. So you can see me and My companion and the other Mexican Elder Ocadiz  who came at the same time as Elder Arriaga.  Then Elder Parra, who lived in the same house as me for a time with the District Leader Elder Palma, ha ha. So ya that those ones.

We had a lot of fun.  In the morning, I played basketball since we couldn't play futbal yet, and sometimes they would pull me out of the basketball game to play with my volleyball team (I wasn't to happy about, I wasn't  angry either ha ha) I would rather play basketball then volleyball, but my volleyball team won...weird, ha ha, then we ate lunch, then we played soccer which was fun.  But of course crowed since lots wanted to play ha ha.

Alright, So we got a certificate cause we won the volleyball tourney.  We got for Christmas a picture of all the  missionaries in the mission :) yeaaa! cool huh. I have 3 copies, so I might send you one someday. Or you'll just have to wait, ha ha.  Who knows.

Then I took some pictures of my shoe I hope one of these works.

So we had a talent show for the navidad party. And some elders did some funny stuff. One group did a Apply what we learn in the mission to the life after the mission. It was pretttttty funny, ha ha.  I have a video, but I cant send it. So you ll see it sometime, its good. 

At church Sunday almost nobody went, ha ha.  We had like 30, so some people went, but we were defiantly lacking a ton.  But that's Argentina. For Christmas, its more like 24th in the night that they do everything.  They stay up till 1200 or or 200 in the morning.  So it was a challenge to get up on time.  And everything is closed, ha ha. Everything.

I'm not sure I'll have time to send more this computer is terrible.  Sorry I didn't really write a ton. I'll give you guys a good update on people next week I think, ha ha.

Oh and I would like it if you could tell me if David Titus is going to come to my mission still.

Thanks.

Love ya, it was good to talk to you.

Elder Obray

 

Letter Dated December 19, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

I must say that we have lots more food choices in the states. Which is good. The food here is good.  But ya have to know how to cook.  Soooo small problem for us. We are learning bit by bit. I might be able to cook a bit when I get home.  Not a ton.  But a little.

Mike's Companion, Elder Arriaga

Ok, so the phone calls or skype is going to happen on the 24th, my companion at 5 and me 6:30ish.   Obviously there could be a variable, cause it depends on when my companion finishes. But I would say 6:30 in Argentina time, sooo, like 2:30 in the states? Ha ha, bit early, but o well. And I will try to do skype 1st, but if I can't, cause the Internet where we are going to do it isn't very fast, and I have to find a web cam to borrow.  I will call home if skype doesn't work and hang up so you have my number, then you guys have to call me back so the Branch President doesn't end up paying.

If you have questions or something, I will check my email before I call or skype.  So we hope it works.

Yea I am pretty excited for super p-day.  I get to play some sports, visit with lots of other missionaries.  Should be fun.  We eat good too.  We leave Wednesday and come back Friday. Should be good.

Christmas on Sunday should be interesting, we only go for sacrament meeting.  Which for the Argentineans is weird, cause they celebrate in the night... ha ha.

This week was pretty interesting.

Argentine money

Saturday we had a branch Christmas activity.  So Friday and Saturday we spent the days inviting people, investigators and menos activos really.  And we had lots of people there. We had probably, 8 investigators and 6 menos activos.  So that was pretty good.

In the activity, they read the story about Jesus, and had a bunch of pictures to go with it made by the youth.  Then we sang some songs.  Then we ate lots of food and talked.  Went really well. The people really liked it.

Then at church most of the people at the activity didn't go.  But a few did, we had 4 investigators go to church so that was good.

We struggled to have lessons with peole this week, everyone is really busy right now getting Christmas ready and all.  And lots are traveling.

We had almost all our citas fall.  But we did do pretty good. This next week or so will be the same I think.

Gives a good idea on how big the cereal package are

I forgot to read what happened in the week to remind me before email.  The weeks get mixed up in my head sometimes.  I cant really think of what lessons we had with investigators.

We taught Flia Martinez twice, but then the kids went to visit there brother, so we haven't been able to pass by.  And she (the mom) wont go without Walter there to drag her, ha ha.

Anyway we should be talking this Saturday.

Until then.

Love
Elder Obray

Letter Dated December 12, 2011

Dear Mon and Dad;

Thanks for the email.  It's good to hear that things are going pretty well back home.  I was really glad to hear that Sam is leaving.  That's really exciting.  I'm sure he will do great.

Yea, so the whole eye infection stuff is pretty bad here, lots of people get them. Who knows why. But right now me and my companion are good health wise. Well minus that my companion has destroyed both his pairs of shoes.  I think we bought pretty good ones since he lost 2 pairs in 4 months...

Ah man, I almost ate all the peanut butter, I ate probably 6 PB and J sandwiches for lunch the other day, ha ha.  But its sooo good.

And about the Christmas calls....Hmmm.  One of us is going to call about 5 here and the other about 7 Argentina time.  So I don't think we will have a problem. You should send me information on how to call home.  I don't remember what numbers I have to press to call the States and Idaho ha ha.. I think we call the 24th as well.  But really I gotta ask someone. And I probably can skype if a member will let me use the computer.  But we haven't prepared anything as far as that goes.  If I call it will be the same as before where I will call you and hang up and you have to call back.

For Christmas I'm not sure what we are allowed to do....I guess we will see.  We cant go knock doors, ha ha.  I think the 22nd of Dec. we go to Mar Del Plata for the Super P-day.  I'm pretty excited to play some sports. Its been a while.

Alright so this week. In Argentina.  I gave the missionary lesson in District Meeting, which was weird, since I'm not district leader.  But apparently, President said that every once in a while another missionary should give the lesson.  So that was pretty cool.

We had a pretty decent amount of success this week. 5 investigators went to church.  Estela, She is the mom of a member, she has gone to church like 3 times now.  Just needs to get married.  2 little kids, Juan Cruz and his sister, they are in primary and well we can't actually baptize them because there parents wont commit to supporting and bringing them to church every Sunday. But they went this week without the parents. In order to baptize a young person into the church we have to be sure that they have an adult to at least bring them every week to church.  Just so the missionaries don't go out and baptize a bunch of kids who will go to church for 1 year and that's it.

Then another kid named Brian who is friends with an active member came.  Which was really good.  He is about 16 years old.  We taught him the 1st lesson in the church.  We taught the class for the young men that day, ha ha.  Which went pretty well..

Then Adrianna went of course.  Carlos didn't because he had work. We had two citas with them this last week, we talked a lot.  Finally Carlos read, and prayed. But he didn't really connect with the Book of Mormon very much.  But he said he was going to read more, I think he is really trying, so if he keeps it up he will get his answer.  This was pretty exciting for us.  I think there is a chance with him right now, he seems more open.

If you remember Walter, the kid who went to church last Sunday, they had a huge change this past week.  His Dad no longer lives in the house.  The mom was sick of him and kick him out (which wasn't a huge surprise since he was always drinking).  But still it was hard on the kids to lost their dad.  So they are going through the judge process.  So they had a big change.  But with all that happening Walter and his little sister Sophia went to a youth activity Friday. Which they loved.  We have a appointment tonight with the family.  So we will see how it all goes with them. They didn't go to church and we thought they all would go.  So I guess we will see what happened.

We also met a guy named Daniel Suarez who was baptized when he had 9 years (now 32) but he lost contact with the church cause he started to work.  We talked to him for a few minutes and he has some really good memories of the church.  We put a appointment for this week, so we are excited cause he asked us what time church was at.  That never happens, ha ha.  So we will see.

We talked to a guy named Hugo Blanco this week.  He is a menos activo.  And was married in the temple and everything.  But got mad at a member and never went to church.  I get frustrated with these people who know so much but don't go.

Oh yea those pictures where of a plate mashed potatoes.  MMMmmm good.  And then a pictures of my shoe ha ha.  One of my shoes is dying the other is fine. but you can see my finger sooo.... maybe they will send me some new ones.  But I'll use these till winter probably.

Then a picture of a dog.  Our dueno (duno umm....English...lady who owns our house? since we rent) anyway she took care of a dog, and it started to rain really hard.  So we let it stay inside a little bit of our house. Well because of that he thought we were best friends of course. So that night when we came back to our house, we opened the window, and look, the dog just sat on the  windowsill allllll night.  Seriously.  When we got up in the morning.  Still there.

We were looking for old investigators for a while this week to see if they changed there minds.  And we knocked one door, and 3 kids came out, a kid of 5 year, a kid of 10, and a girl of 13. We asked if the mom was home, the 10 year old said no.  BUT the 5 year old is a honest little kid, and with a grin on his face he said, "NO! Mom is home". But the 10 year old wasn't done yet.  Alright well shes sleeping. The little 5 year old says, "NO! look shes washing the dishes, she is right there."

At this point we were laughing. and the 13 year old girl went in to talk to the mom. Unfortunately the mom just sent the 13 year old out to say she didn't want to talk right now.  But still.  At least we found an honest 5 year old.

We were pretty satisfied with the lessons we had this week. If things continue we hope to have a few baptisms (that would be nice, its been a while).

Anyway, enjoy your week, its almost Christmas.

Love ya,

Elder Obray

Letter Dated December 5, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well sounds like you all had a good week. That's always good, ha ha.

We had an interesting week this week.  My companion had a pretty good little infection in his eye this week, the pictures I sent home are of the eye, I think you can see it pretty good.  But anyway, we had to go see a doctor and everything.  Couldn't leave our house for a couple of days this week.  So that was pretty boring.  There is NOTHING to do in the house really.... So we were stuck Thursday through Saturday in our house.  So our work was cut pretty short this week.

But we still had 3 investigators go to church.  So that's good.  The parents of a menos activo Maria Rosa went and a kid named Walter who's dad is a menos activo and him and the rest aren't members.  So we are working with them.

We taught some people who are from Paraguay this week.  We found them looking for a kid we taught one day.   Its weird cause they speak Guarani (weird language ) and Spanish.  One of them was actually a member and got baptized a few years ago but hasn't gone to church in a while, but she really likes to go, the problems is, they are traveling to Paraguay for the holidays...so we wont see them for a while.

Oh and I got my hand on some peanut butter this week. So I ate a bit of PB and J.  That was good.  Mmmmmm.

Elder and Hermana Fee (a senior couple) came and talked to us on Tuesday about cleaning the list of members.  Since they are huge.  And many don't live here anymore.  So we have to clean them up good.  Its a lot of work to try and find these people.  But the records are important.

We also taught and took out a fecha with a couple called Carlos and Adrianna.  Adriana goes to church with her son who is baptized Jesus.  But Carlos no.  And they aren't married yet.  SO its a bit in the future.  But we had a really good lesson and the spirit was there.  So we will see where it goes.

Well we hope to do a bit more this week, ha ha.  I feel a bit bummed we didn't get to do more. Its hard to sit in the house all day, ha ha.  Especially cause the weathers good.

Anyway, I don't have much more to say.  My companion is just fine now,  so we are going to work good this week.

I don't think I've gained any weight.  We walk a ton.  But who knows someday I might.

One of the members found a movie about missionaries the other day.  It was weird cause it was in a public movies place on the same cd as 2 other movies.  And people where buying it ha ha. 

Well I hope its a good movie.  The member bought it.  So I guess we will know.
And that's really all I got.  Hope you all have a good week.

Love 
Elder Obray

Letter Dated November 28, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well sounds like you all had a good Thanksgiving and such.  Which is good.  I barely remembered it was Thanksgiving, ha ha.  I think I ate some chicken that day.  Close to turkey.  But they really don't have much turkey here.

And it was cool to hear where Hanna and Aaron were going/are.  

I was glad to hear of your participation in black Friday, ha ha. Super fun to not sleep for a day and buy stuff.

And I am glad Emma still remembers who her favorite person is ;)

Anyway,  in Argentina  there was no Thanksgiving (weird that nobody else celebrates our day of thanks huh?) But we did have a good week anyways.

First off this week we did divisions. I stayed in Quequen and Elder Arriaga went to Necochea central (the busy place who knows where) I went with the Leader of District (oh no that was English in Spanish form)  named Elder Palma from Peru (land of rice, I feel blessed to be in a  land of cows with milk and meat for my mission....rice everyday, rice with butter, rice with more rice, rice with  bread.......que rico). Anyway,  so that's what we did Tuesday and Wednesday.

We  got contacted by a drunk guy (not really abnormal for this to happen) and he told us he wanted to change his life. So we noted his address and passed by the next day. Unfortunately he had a friend there who was difficult and didn't believe in much (if you want an example of his doctrine look up Nehor in the book of Mormon, it was the same). So it kinda ruined the lesson... but whatever.  We will see what we can do for him.

Next, I don't remember if i talked about Marialisa last time.  But we taught her again.  And she loves the Book of Mormon.  We talked about baptism, and she said she would like to get baptized because she knows these things are true, BUT she doesn't want to change.  She has 30 years in her church.  Her family keeps asking her if she is going to change.... really she is just scared to change and commit to go to church every Sunday.  So we will see what we can do there.

We taught a guy named Mariano outside his house.  He was receptive.  But we have yet to find him  again.

Oh yea, we  ran into a Testigo ( Jehovah witness) they are difficult, ha ha.  Anyway we were talking to her, when we saw outside her window, 5 cars full of police pull up and probably 30 policemen with shotguns, combat shields, and pistols surround the house next to us.... ha ha.  It was pretty cool.  The poor lady we were talking to was scared to death.  So we waited in the house for an hour or so for thing to cool down outside.  Fortunately nothing terrible happened.  We don't really know what happened.  After an hour we just left.  The cops were still outside the house, well I think at this point some were inside.  But it was kinda exciting to see.

At this point our divisions ended and Elder Arriaga  came back.

The poor kid.  Here's what happened to him.  None of us have a lot of money because we traveled to Tandil and we are waiting to get the money back, and Elder Palma and Elder Parra had 0 pesos left. So we did the exchanges , and in our area we almost always have lunches (they are huge lunches) poor Elder Arriaga had 0 lunches in Necochea.  So food was sparse, he ended up eating something like cornbread.  But not very good..... ha ha. He  wasn't to happy.  We have enough money to live, but usually when we don't have lunches we buy stuff and cook a good lunch ourselves.  But we always use to much money.  So sometimes for the end of transfers, money is a bit scarce (and we just finished another transfer this last week.)  Oh and Elder Arriaga got stung by a bee in the eyelid. Ouch.

The last email the pictures where of a map of Mar Del Plata I bought.  I zoomed in on the areas I served a bit.  Not sure if you guys  can even tell.  And a picture of the futbal I have.  It is not very good, but it serves its purpose.

Sunday was an interesting day.  We went to take a family to church in the morning.  A mom (who is menos activo that we found doing contacts) and her 3 children who haven't been baptized.  So we passed by but they were alllllll sleeepingg... and our calls and loud knocking couldn't quite wake them up from the deep slumber.  So they didn't go to church :(

But really,  it just rained allll day.  We were in the street a lot, and in a few hours we were soaked (it just rains so hard) and of course that is when we got into the house, but we left 1 minute later to change clothes....cause we were a bit to soaked and they lived close to our house. So we changed and went back.  But it was just weird.  I'm not sure why.

So we did have 1 investigator go to church.  She wants to get baptized.  But 1st she has to marry the guy she is living with...She has 50 years, 30 together, you'd think they would just sign the papers right? Nope, ha ha.

Anyway so that's more or less what my week was like.  Nothing happened for transfers for us. I don't know about the other elders.  I figure I'll be here till February. And then I'll have 1 more area.  But who knows.  I'm not in charge here, ha ha.

Anyway enjoy your week.  Have fun.  I'll prolly write again next week.  Eat a little extra turkey for me. I'll just stay here in Argentina and preach to people.  You guys go ahead and eat turkey.

Love ya,

Elder Obray

Letter Dated November 21, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Mike's tan line

Thanks for the email.  It was kinda interesting to see who noticed it was my birthday on facebook, ha ha.  I'm surprised anyone wrote anything since I'm kinda far away.  Thanks for the pictures as well.  Some pretty sweet lego castle stuff going on eh? Oh and thanks for the music.

Well I was glad to hear things are going well at home, even if its boring.

Mike's tan line

We did have an interesting week.  We had zone conference.  And since our zone is based in a city two and a half hours north of us, Tandil, we went to Tandil Wednesday.  It was kinda cool to see another city.  It looked pretty similar really, except the streets were made of stone, like the streets in old English movies.  That was pretty cool.

Argentine money

The zone conference was good. President always has some interesting words for us, he focused a bit more on the fact that we were going to be in areas for longer times. Since that will be hard for a lot of missionaries, ha ha. I am scared of getting a bad comp now, since we would be together for a good 3 months...ha ha.  I talked to  Elder Vauterlaus during the zone conference.  He was in my district in the MTC.  So it was cool to see him again.  He has only been in two areas.  Bahia Blanca and Tandil and he is on his 3rd companion.

I also discovered that during summer, there are millions of mosquitoes.  Millions.  And I must have sweet blood, cause they bite a lot . I probably have 30 bites right now.... yeaaaa.... anyway so that's fun.

I sent some pictures. I sent some of the tan line I'm getting.  And then some of the money of Argentina. Hope you like it.  I took lots of pictures of things today, so.

Mike's favorite candy Aguilla Classic

This week we did some pretty good work, ha ha.  We found a bunch of new investigators. But they are a bit difficult cause they are attending other churches.  Well 2 couples have this problem. But they said they would read the Book of Mormon and pray.  So we hope they will feel something.

Also, we passed by a member's house Flia Garcia.  And they are a great family.  Super active and super strong members.  The Hermano (brother) Garcia is very outspoken, ha ha.  And one of his neighbors who isn't a member came to there house, ha ha.  And it was funny, cause he just starts preaching away  trying to show her that the Book of Mormon was true and all this.  I think his neighbor was confused. Luckily for us the hermano had to leave for a bit, which gave me and my comp an opportunity to chat. And we set up a cita for the next week.  But it was funny to watch the hermano.  Great guy. 

Oh I cook french toast today. Yum. I finally found powder sugar.  Under the name Asucar Impampable. Whew. So that was great.

Cereal in Argentina

The next pictures are.  My favorite Argentine candy, Aguilla classic.  The cereal of Argentina comes in the super super small bags... kinda annoying really.  The milk comes in plastic sacks really, and in 1liter so its not a ton.  A picture of a key in Argentina.  I think we should use these keys.

Alright I have a few questions:

1. I think Aaron Capner is on his mission, but I don't know where.  You should try to find out.

2. I got a letter the other day that said Hanna Treu was going on a mission, but I don't know where, you should check and see what's going on cause I don't know if its a joke.

Milk in Argentina

These next picture are Nesquick, which is a lifesaver, gotta have some chocolate milk.  This is our big map of our area the dotted line is the line of the bridge and the big street next to our house. I think you can read the note of the map that says kasa. That's our house.  I tried to send a picture of my shoes but it didn't turn out good. I'll get a better one.

Well I can't think of anything else super cool that happened.  We didn't really have any crazy things happen.  Just the normal for me, ha ha.  Anyway, enjoy your week. Enjoy thanksgiving... they don't have turkey...sniffle. I'll have to find something, ha ha.

Love Elder Obray

Map of current area

Mike's lifesaver

Argentina key

Letter Dated November 14, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Thanks for the happy birthdays and the email.  I for sure had a pretty good birthday.  The people were great!

In truth, I don't know what the huge building are... There are 3 church building in Necochea. I know a hospital is close to one.  So that's possible. The other I've never actually seen.  And the other is in central. So lots of big building.....sorry I can't really help.

We don't see to many boats.  Mostly cause we aren't to close to the water usually.  But I have seen a few  big ones.  Just not up close.

Spanish is coming good.  I almost never speak English. Since my comp doesn't speak English.  My vocab lacks a bit.  But when we teach a lesson.  Facil.  I usually don't have any problems. Sometimes I lack a good description word, but I can work around that a bit. I would say I am doing alright I can understand most the things.  And talk pretty well.  I still have a pretty good Yankee accent, ha ha.  It's hard to lose that part.

So this week, really went alright. Not great.  Not terrible.  We had 55 people in church.  But no investigators.  Part of that was cause it was the primary program.  Which was great.  And of course we participated since the primary and the missionaries are pretty much equals right?  Ha ha, no, but it was fun.  The program went well.  The kids loved it.

Alan, the kid we baptized here, his mom had a baby Wednesday.  So we passed by and talked to them his name is Tiago. like Diego with a t.  And he likes to cry, ha ha. So that was pretty cool.

Oh yea I had an eye infection.  Nothing bad.  I can't remember what it was called.  But I got some medicine (which to be honest I don't trust, but that's just cause I have a hard time trusting anything in Argentina unless a church member says its good ha ha.  But it seems to be working.  It's just some eye drops.  I thought it was just allergies, but apparently a lot of people here have this infection, they say it's because of the ash.  Which is the blame for everything here, ha ha, its kinds funny.  Cause you can't see it very often.  But its there.  And sometimes in the morning there's a tiny bit on the ground. But it doesn't stay for long.

So we found two new investigators.  They stopped us in the street.  So we didn't find them the two new investigators found us. They were driving and apparently having an argument of some sort and pulled over (Still arguing) and said hey you two, you guys teach about God right. Yes.  Good come stop by our house sometimes.

So we got the address and passed by a few times, but they were never home.  Then por fin. Mericoloes we found them in there house.  We shared the first lesson and took out baptismal fechas with them, and we have the follow up cita today.  So we are going to see what happened to them.

We visited a Menos activo, Marta Cuello, Who lives some 35 blocks from the church (which is far) and she doesn't have much money and has like 7 kids. But she started to come back to church. So we are pretty stoked about that.

Juan, a kid in the branch that's preparing to leave for his mission, leaves with us every Wednesday right.  Well this last Wednesday he was acting weird. So oddly my companion had to go to the bathroom in the church.  Where we sat down and talked a bit. And found out he was just worried about his dad, since his dad stopped going to church a while back.  So we told him we would pass by his dad later that week.  When we passed by we talked to him, and he is really smart. He knows just as much as I do about the church. Since I am oh so smart , ha ha no chiste (joke).  Anyway we are now a bit worried ourselves since he wants to get revenge on a guy who fired him from his work.... And well try as we might we couldn't find anyway to help him think about what he wants to do.  He is a but stubborn and wont even say a pray or read (which he used to love to do)... so we were a bit lost.

And for my birthday.  Well 1st we had the primary presentation. Then we had an surprise lunch.  We went to visit a menos activo after church and he was cooking an asado (an Argentina barbecue but it has like....hmmm steak and sausages and lots of stuff.  Really good.  So we ended up eating with him. Then that night. The president de Rama, President  Llanos, invited us to eat at his house. So we went. and his sons Diego and Pablo were there.  It was a huge party.  With another asado with french fries. Way Good. So we at least ate good, ha ha. Then Diego and his wife Ana gave me a gift. A very good gift for summer they said. They gave me some deodorant, ha ha.  Which was great.  Ana and Diego both served mission in pretty hot places, so they know, that after an hour in the sun, you gotta go home and take another shower, ha ha.  Anyway so that was pretty good.

And we got new, news from the President.  Apparently they had a meeting with, some high ranking church officials like Elder Christofferson and such.  And they said that missionaries need to stay in areas longer.  So now.  Instead of being in an area for 4 months as a normal. its going to be 6 to 9 months.  So 4 to 6 translados in every area! THAT'S a TON of time. Seeing as for me 1 transfer in Monolito, 2 in Mar del, 3 in Punta Magotes, and I have 2 in QueQuen so far. So now I am almost assured 1 or 2 more transfers in QueQuen.  Whew.  It's interesting.

Anyway that's pretty much all the news I got.  I think I wrote a lot today.  So enjoy, ha ha. I didn't take any pictures today so. Sorry, ha ha. We will go exploring in the next lunes.

Yea I feel a bit bad for Aaron. I don't know much about his mission or Chile in general.  Besides they have like twice as many members as Argentina.  We have like 350,000 they como 800,000.  But I'm sure in a lot of ways the people are similar.  Which means difficult and very closed minded.  Especially the older people.  The young couples or the teenagers are more open, but they usually just want to know what it's like in the states or for my comp Mexico, and hear a little English. They usually don't have interest, ha ha. The best days are the days when you knock doors all day and don't get into a single house or anything.  I'm sure that's happened to him a few times by now.  And it's always a bit depressing.  But that's when you sit down, drink some chocolate milk, eat an Alfajore, and crack some jokes, ha ha. Then go on.

Anyway I'm doing good.  Just working.  Don't need to worry bout me, ha ha.  Enjoy your week. Hey, you should send me some pictures of some legos things I've built, my comp doesn't believe that I build things with legos.  He thinks there for little kids and I know there for fully grown children, like me, ha ha. That would be great.

Disfruta su semana.

Love Elder Obray