Letter Dated June 20, 2011

Dear Mom & Dad;

Happy Fathers Day! Ha ha, Argentina had it the same time, which is weird cause mothers day is in like October, ha ha. Anyway Enjoy.

Mike in his appartment

Sweet, thanks for Sister Andersons address I will send off a bunch of letters tomorrow, probably. And I want to know what those changes the stake president is going to make will be. Sounds pretty exciting, ha ha. I can't even imagine what it would be. Is the church in general going to change something soon, or just our stake? Cause if its just the stake, it cant really be that big of a change right?

Yea it's decently cold here, but it's a different kind of cold, really misty. And the sleeping bag seems to work out pretty well. I defintatly don't live cold.

So I do have the same companion. Elder Parra picked up his new companion Friday night, Elder Silva from Santiago Chile. He is fresh from the MTC, they are only in the MTC for 2 weeks! Thats nothing haha.

A trainer is someone who trains a new guy from the MTC, so Elder Brown was my trainer, Elder Parra is a trainer for Elder Silva.

This week was interesting since Elder Parra didn't have a companion until Friday night. So we were at trio for the week. Which was kinda nice to have a person who could easily speak the language, ha ha. We taught some good people. We had a family that was a reference that we had been trying to teach for a long time that we finally got into and taught this week, they liked the lesson, but we have yet to see if they read and prayed.

Mike's companion Elder Sullivan

Then we worked in Elder Parras area, and he had a reference and we went there, they were one of the most prepared people I have meet so far, the family is just a mom and two teenage daughters, but they had been searching for a good religion for a while, and one of the daughters told us she felt something during the lesson (which is rare for them to say, but awesome) and she thought it was the spirit.

So that was the best thing that happened this week for sure. It also rained almost all week, so the streets are super muddy, and Elder Sullivan and I have been walking to our area, because Elder Sullivan spent almost all his money, ha ha, and we have to cross a stream, but the little wooden bridge was gone this last time, well more covered in water from all the rain, so we eventually found a place where there was small islands, and we hopped across the stream. Sometime I'm going to take pictures of the stream, and the forest we walk to, to get to our area.

And Elder Arnold from the seventy is coming to our city this week, he is president of South America South so that should be cool. Except apparently they always "drop the cane on the missionaries" which means he will tell us everything we need to fix. Should be fun.

Anyway that's all I got for you this week

Love Elder Obray