Letter dated August 22, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Thanks for the update on everyone. Sounds like you guys had an interesting week with dad breaking his collar bone and everything. Going to be a rough summer for dad without that collar bone...

Mike's Apartment

So this week went alright. We didn't even get to talk to the family Macia, we just couldn't get a hold of them or anything. But there is not much we could do about that.  We haven't been able to talk to Cynthia yet.

Broken sink

Flia Pacheco we are still teaching, but they have only gone to church one time, so they aren't progressing right now. We have a fecha for them for the like 24th of September, I will probably be gone from the area by then.  I have a good chance of leaving the area this transfer, but who knows.

Yea so the pictures I sent are of a bousque about 2 blocks from our house. Our house is 15 blocks inland in the barrio Farro Norte. I don't know the street names around our house to well (since we live in the area of the other two elders) but a big road Mario Bravo is about 5 or 6 blacks from our house. you should be able to see the bousque (forest) then we are just outside.  There aren't too many houses, its more spread.

And yes our sink is now fixed. Joy. ha ha.

Broken sink

This week we worked pretty hard trying to get into houses of people we already have.  We had a good lesson with a member with a investigator named Alberto. He is a really good guy with really good intentions. he is looking for the truth. So I think he will get baptized. But he wont let us set a baptism date yet. He need more time (he doesn't) ha ha.

In the family Pacheco, we really are focusing on the father Christian. because he is really the only one with genuine interest. So we try hard with him.

We found a menos activo this week who is really good. She just refuses to go to church because she feels insulted about some gibberish that happened. Ridiculous really. But she is a super good painter and has a WAY sweet painting of dream she had. Its cool. You will just have to trust me.

Mike's apartment

This week with an investigator named Justo, he really wanted to hear a prayer in English. And well to be honest, I haven't said a prayer in English in 7months, ha ha, it was pretty sad. It was a mixture of Spanish and English, and I had to really think to form the sentences in English, terrible. When I get home, people are just going to have to live with Spanish prayers.

In the last email you asked if I needed anything for the package. Well really I could use socks, ha ha.  But other then that I don't neeeeed anything. But you can send whatever you want ha ha.

Really, we had a decent week. Nobody at church. Well two menos activos came. Which was good. And tomorrow will have zone conference. 

Anyway I don't have much else for you right now. Have a good. week.

Love Elder Obray