Letter Dated October 31, 2011

Dear Mom and Dad;

Yea, I just realized today was Halloween. I forgot, ha ha. Since they don't celebrate it here. O well. Maybe I'll go buy a treat.

Well sounds like you  guys all had a pretty good week. Which is good.

We didn't have the best week when it came to  lessons and such this week. But people actually went to church which was nice. We had 4 investigators and 6 menos activos.

The investigators are:

Adriana - she is an investigator since she isn't married and living with a guy but wants to get baptized.  I think I told you about her earlier.

Mama y papa of a menos activo named Maria Rosa, the dad is difficult, he is  very shy and closed, A  member went and mowed his lawn for him one time, so he will actually listen to us and went to church. The mom honestly, is hard to say . She loves the church. but she is not all there, bit crazy.  But whatever they came to church.

Angel, the husband of a strong member named Beatrice. We have tried to get a fecha and teach him, but he is difficult because he doesn't really have much desire to make a covenant  with God.  He is a smart guy, and when he is  baptized he will  be a great  member. But now he is just difficult. He wont read or pray cause well I think he knows that he will get  an answer and he thinks he's not ready.

So that's where we are at with the investigators that went to church. We had District Conference. And a area 70 Elder Patanias came and spoke and it was really good. Great week for investigators to go to church.   Everyone who went felt the spirit. Angel said he felt a twitch in his heart, ha ha. But the thing with him is he thinks its just emotions, not the spirit, and he cant tell. We tried to explain. But it's a bit difficult to explain the spirit in a way for him to understand, ha ha.  I think if he would read and pray he would learn.

We did a lot of service for members, we cleaned the church (the district conference was in our building) and we  cut the lawn (huge challenge) of a investigator. So we had a pretty decent week.

Beach in Quequen

We had a member cut our hair today. Unfortunately we didn't go anywhere cool. We washed clothes, by hand, ugh.

Ah yea, we met a menos activo, that has a way good testimony of the gospel. He's like 25, has a wife and kid. And He doesn't want to go to church ha ha, but he want his wife and kid to go, ha ha, interesting.

And Domingo after the conference, me and my companion were invited to eat lunch with Elder Patanias and all the branch presidents.  So we went. Ate pretty good, but its kinda intimidating to be surrounded by all the high ranking officials ha ha. It was cool though.

Beach in Quequen

I can't think of much more that happened this week. Hopefully things continue to go good for all of us.

You should check and see if Braeden Hill, or Brandon Harrington have there mission calls. Almost all my good friends are gone...

Love ya

Elder Obray