Letter dated August 1, 2011

Dear Mom & Dad; 

Well this week went alright. It was fun to have a new companion, the area changes when you get a new companion and makes things a bit more exciting for a little while. And my new companion is a really good kid, we get along just fine, but if you concentrate in working its kinda hard not to get along since you have the same goals. 

Mike & his companion, Elder Stewart

Spanish is coming alongggggg ha ha, well I am clearly better then when I started but far from perfect.  Elder Stewart is for sure better then I am, but he had a native companion and a house full of natives so he has had more practice then me. 

Yea the hole we dug is a well for water, not to drink I don't think....but who knows its Argentina. And the rain storm was crazy. We were soaked. 

So the week was interesting, since I was actually in charge ha ha, which is an interesting learning experience, both me and my comp have always been junior companions, but now we both are equal ha ha. So we are learning it all together. We worked a lot to organize our area book (full of old investigators and stuff) and mark a map. And this week we are planning on doing alot of visiting. We had a meeting on Sunday with the mission president and a 70 (not of the 1st quorum of the 70, one of the area ones or something, but still pretty cool) anyway they talked to the missionaries and the church leaders. And they stressed reactivation a lllllloooottt. Because they want to have a 3rd stake, and they have the numbers, but not the attendance and such. So the members are suppose to befriend the inactive and invite them to listen to the missionaries again. So we could be pretty busy with that. 

Another sunset

Our investigators have some interesting situations. Our main ones Flia Pacheco are a good family and have lots of questions and stuff, and they went to church once when the bus passed by (passes by every other Sunday) and such. Butttttttt they always are asking the church to give them food and stuff. I don't think they actually need it....I think they just want it. They have a decent house and tv (satellite), nice stove, nice fridge... so I don't really know what to do. We are going to bring a good member and teach tithing/self reliance and see how that goes. Anyway we can't pass by them till Thursday night. Then Flia Cuinka who went to church once and like it all, we just can't get a good appointment with them. Then we have some other people but I probably wont mention them until they go to church (cause that means they are actually interested). 

Beautiful sunset

About the music I haven't bought an mp3 yet so no rush ha ha. 

We are doing divisions this week and I am going to be in my area with the district leader. Which should be good, he is going to help me get some stuff down ha ha. Oh yea, and we are looking for a house in our area now ha ha, so we wont have to walk as far to work. Should be good.  

I don't remember if I told you but I saw Elder Flamm from my district in the MTC, he came into Mar Del Plata during transfers and left again. But we talked for a bit which was cool, and now one of the natives Elder Coloco who is in my arrival group is a district leader! He has like 4 and a half months in the mission! The kids a star! Anyway this week should be pretty exciting we have ward conference and we hope to have investigators in church so we are going to work hard for that. That's about all I got, we are going to work hard this next week and have some success. 

Love Elder Obray