Letter Dated July 11, 2011

Dear Mom & Dad;

Julieta & Deltina

Glad to hear everything in your part of the world is still going good. I got some pretty good pictures, I'm not sure how well you will be able to see the things I will describe about them without zooming in.

Julieta & Deltina

Pictures 5930 through 5932 are pictures of little girls from the family Pacheco In the activity we had Saturday (which was a huge success and I will describe it more later). The family is one of our 3 main investigators. The mom is in picture 5928. Mom is called Luciana, the older girl is Julieta 7, and the little one is Delfina 5. The dad and older son didn't go for some reason or other. Anyway they are awesome.

Julieta & Deltian

Picture 5925 is one of the ward activity. Lots of people there for a ward of like 90 active members ha ha. Pablo, a guy in the tan sweater in about the center is our new mission leader, he is a stallion. He went on his mission like 10 years ago, he is 31 and just barely got a girlfriend ha ha. Reminds me a bit of Nate  ha ha.

Picture 5926 is a picture of the Panisas. A bunch of little kids two of which are baptized. they go to church rarely but usually go to the activities ha ha. Way funny kids though, you can see Elder Sullivan with them and 5927 is the same really.

Picture 5925 - Ward Party

Picture 5928 is our investigator Luciana and her two little girls, and some ward members, the ward members here are awesome when new investigators come. Especially if they are a family, so they felt super welcome and loved it.

Picture 5929, a bunch of ward members, in the verrry back, you can see a girl with a shirt with lots of colors, well her and her sister are sitting next to each other, and there parents across the table, they are the Family Cuinka, who are also our investigators. We have been working with them for over a month and this is the first time they went to the church, and we have only been able to teach them the first lesson ha ha. Way good family though.

Picture 5926 - Elder Sullivan with kids

anyway so that's all the pictures I will send. The transfer ends really soon and Elder Sullivan will most likely leave, so I should get some more/better pictures for you then of the people.

So this week went really well for us. The start not so much, but the end was good. I was pretty sick Monday through Saturday, but we still went out and worked. Really though, we didn't get as many good lessons and we would have liked. But somehow (had honestly nothing to do with us ha ha) the Family Cuinka came to the activity Saturday.

We had some interesting things happen, we walked to our area, Wednesday I think, and we happen to run into the Wife, Carma and the youngest daughter Celia, actually we didn't see them, they came and talked to us out of nowhere ha ha. And that was really the first time we and been able to talk to them in a good week or two. We had all but given up hope on them, and they only seemed remotely interesting when we invited them to the activity.

Picture 5927 - Elder Sullivan with kids

But next thing you know the whole family showed up. The two girls made fiends with the young women almost instantly, in fact, when me and Elder Sullivan got to the activity all the girls were over talking in a corner like girls tend to do . But we were pretty stoked, and the members treated them super well. And we got the 1st counselor of the bishopric, who had talked with Jorge (the dad) a lot to invite them to church Sunday. It went super well, the family loved it.

Picture 5928 - Luciana and her two girls

The family Pacheco, we called a Ramiz (cheap taxi) for them to get there, since they don't have a car, and they are pretty poor. and the mom and little girls came, we had already taught the family with a member, and the member invited Luciana (the mom) to sit with her and all her friends so that was good. Of course the two little girls were bored, which is why I have picture of them, cause they came and sat next to me cause apparently I am more entertaining ha ha ha, imagine that. ha ha and they all liked the activity, you should have seen the two little girls faces when they had to leave the church  so very sad ha ha.

The activity was cool, we ate a food called Lucro which is good I guess ha ha. Its a soup stuff. But its got Churisso which is a really good sausage in it. Anyway they played all these games (which was for all ages except really young) and everybody participated a bit. The people here are a lot louder then they are in the states ha ha ha ha.

Picture 5929 - Cuinka Family in the very back

Anyway so Sunday came and the family Pacheco never answered there door (found out later the mom was sick) and we had called Cuinkas and were waiting hoping they would come. And they did. Which was awesome. And the members just absorbed them so they just disappeared until the Gospel Principles class where new members and investigators go. And we had a way good lesson (one of the best I've seen) about baptism and Jorge Cuinka even made a sweet comment. Anyway they all loved the church. And we have high hopes for them right now. We will see what happens in the next couple of weeks. Oh and one of the Families, Beloki, invited the family Cuinka over for a Noche de Hogar (family night) Friday night and of course we are going to be there to teach lesson two ha ha. But we are pretty excited for this next week or so.

Anyway this is a long letter and I typed really fast.  I hope you can understand all of it. If you have question be sure to ask.

And just so you know, as much as I would like nate to get married, he can wait till I get home. I reallly do like wedding food. Just saying  ha ha.

Have a good week.

Love Elder Obray.