Letter Dated July 4, 2011

Dear Mom & Dad;

Elder Parra

Thanks for the music you sent, I am probably going to have to find a cheap mp3 player to play them on, or I'll get a CD player radio and burn them on Cd's, I haven't decided, really just depends on the mp3 price. And restrictions, just don't send me anything that's not good music. The manual tells us to listen to music that will help us to focus on the gospel, so classic music is good, any church music with good lyrics, no love songs(cause we shouldn't spend our time thinking about girls) hopefully that helps.

Mike with his new teeth

So exciting story, my comp threw up in our lesson after P-day last Monday ha ha, he was apparently a bit sick, but its alright, we were doing a family night at a members house so it wasn't so bad, he was just a little bit embarrassed. We are going over there again tonight for a retry ha ha.

Story 2, we buy our groceries for the weeks on Monday, and we knew it was fast Sunday  this Sunday so we bought food and everything. Well, it turns out that Saturday the other two elders' (Parra and Silvas) lunch fell through so they came back to the house and ate, but they ate my spaghetti sauce, so on fast Sunday I was planning on eating spaghetti, but I didn't have any sauce; ( ha ha so I ate oatmeal instead. Mmmmmmmm good, ha ha ha. I was slightly frustrated, but its alright.

Elder Sullivan with his big bowl of oatmeal

In those images, Elder Sullivan ate a huge bowl of oatmeal, you can see the bowl almost full.  We found some candy teetch that are gross looking that you can attach to your teach for a few minutes and we took some pictures, the native is Elder Silva, I don't remember what I told you about him, but just for your information, he is 26 years old! whew.

I think those gold pictures you talked about are Elder Brown ha ha, but I don't have those pictures with me today so I can't check....I think though the map is the 2nd area and all the pictures after 5853.

Elder Sullivan

So lets see, this week we had two lessons with the Family Rodriguez, who is Norma's friend. The lessons went pretty well I would say, and we brought an awesome member to the second one. Unfortunately they couldn't go to church Sunday because the mom was really sick.  The family is really good though. We just have to hope they do their part.

Elder Sullivan

We taught another family, Juan & Alejandra Barrionuevo, they are cool and like the church, but don't go because they don't really have a good way to get there. We are working out a way for them to get to church, but its a struggle to find a person with a car that's not full already. We taught them the Word of Wisdom this week, Juan seemed alright with it, said it wasn't a big deal to give up those things, Alejandra though really likes her coffee.  Other then that, this week we struggled, we taught a few random people, but not much that's really promising.  One of the hardest things here is that the people are VERY set in their religious ways and don't want to change the church they go to, or their idea about marriage. those are super common, a lot of people here are anti marriage which is terrible.

It was pretty cold here this last week, lots of rain and wind, it actually snowed in our area for a few minutes which was a shock, it doesn't do that very often here ha ha.

Elder Sullivan

So that's the life of the mission right now. We will see what happens this next weeks. Oh and Happy 4th of July. I didn't get to see any fireworks :( ha ha o well.

Oh and you should tell me when everyone Birthdays are, I can't remember. I think mines in November, Nate's is in February, millions of them in July, and Jenny in August.

Sounds like you guys all had a good week, keep staying busy and enjoying the large variety of food that the U.S.A has to offer, I say that cause I had a terrible craving for Panda Express this week, but there isn't anything even CLOSE to it here, ha ha.

Love Elder Obray.