Letter Dated August 8, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Thanks for your email. Yea my new companion is an inch or two shorter then me, actually I am the tallest in the house right now. Kinda a surprise ha ha. They don't really do senior companions much anymore, its usually pretty equal, but since I know the area, I am in charge more of what we are doing. But really it doesn't matter to much.

Mike & Elder Stewart

So this week we had divisions, I went with Elder Perez who is our district leader. We worked in my area, and Elder Stewart went to Miramar. Elder Perez is from Mexico, but lived in the states for several years and can speak English pretty well. He is a super good missionary. Anyway, he helped me learn how to plan better and such so I was pretty happy to have that help.  Then we went and worked.

We taught a guy named Leonardo that me and Elder Stewart had found knocking doors and set up a appointment. It went pretty well, he liked the message, and was super duper surprised we were just going to give him a Book of Mormon ha ha. Unfortunately he didn't go to church ;(  Other then that we really just made contacts and had small lessons (or lessons of non-progressing investigators or Menos Activos).

So that was good, and me and Elder Stewart were back together Wednesday night. And  the two Chileans in our house made Completos (a classic Chilean food) hot dogs with guacamole, ketchup, mustard and other stuff...ha ha.

Then me and Elder Stewart found a lady and her two kids a 9 year old girl and a 4 year old with autism, and we taught her and she liked it. She lives a few blocks away from a really good active family, so we got them to look for her Sunday morning, but apparently she was to tired to go to church ;(.

Then our appointments with the family Pacheco fell through.

We did service Saturday in the morning. We finished digging the hole, its a good 18 feet deep probably, ha ha, its huge. And we had a appointment with a lady who invited us to her church...yea.... ha ha. 

Mike's appartment

So none of our investigators went to church, but we will for sure have some the next week.  We did find lots of people and set up a good number of appointments, it looks from what I said our week wasn't super good, but we had some good contacts, so we shall see what will come from it this week.

We went to central today, and I got my mp3 player.  I bought a cheap one that was about 40 American dollars ha ha so like almost 200 pesos, and an Argentina Soccer jacket that's pretty sweet. Oh, ha ha, and we ate at McDonald's. It was Elder Stewart cumpli mes or he just got 8 months so we ate at McDonald's ha ha. So I spent a bit of money today,

Anyway so that's pretty much the week. Other random things that happened, it hailed one day, cause it was way cold for a few days this week, and we have a random dog that follows us on our walk to our area everyday. We named him Clifford. But hes not a big red dog.

So that's pretty much all I got for you today, enjoy your week. Glad things seem to be going well and you all enjoyed girls camp.

Love Elder Obray