Letter Dated February 20, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well sounds like everything is still going pretty good at home. That's always good.  Tell Nate happy birthday.  He's like 30 now right?  Man, I'll be honest, he's getting old,  ha ha.

Yea, so I haven't explained many of my pictures.  But they are all fro m Quequen, so sometime you will see pictures from Castex, but I gotta finish Quequen first.

Alright, so.  This week also went pretty well.  We had some great things happen.  Well Yeesid  is pretty close to the same.  Or I haven't noticed a lot of progress.  He keeps reading and praying, but he wants something more.  We brought the Stake mission leader to a lesson with him to help us out. We had a good lesson, but we are kinda stuck.  Really I don't know what else we can do. We have explained things to him very clearly.  And he understands. But he is looking for a bit more. Really he just doesn't have a testimony yet that the Book of Mormon is true, and that Joesph Smith was a prophet.

So now I am finally getting to some Castex pictures. You'll get all Castex pictures next week.

So we just keep trying things with Yessid.

Antonia progressed really well this week.  She even dreams about getting baptized.  Cool huh?  She wants to get  baptized this week. So we are going to try (we gotta do a lot of stuff before she can get baptized)  but she accepts everything, and loves the church.  Her health is doing better as well. She has been sleeping a lot better. So I am happy for that.  She  went to church this week.  We are pretty excited. 

We also got a few new investigators.

1st Gaby and her 11 year old daughter Natalia. They are neighbors to a good member family.  The 11 year old is awesome. She describes things in a good way.  When we asked her how she felt when she was reading, she said "its like Jesus is standing right in front of me giving me a bug hug"   Well, I can't think of a better way to describe that....  Anyway we taught them 3 times this week. Which is great. They didn't go to church though.  Probably cause the dad doesn't really like the idea of them going to the Mormon church..... But we are going to keep on working.

So those are the best  investigator stories that happened.  Now for other exciting news.  Elder Stutz got transferred to Necochea! So he is now gone.  I already have my new companion.  He is from Texas.  Elder Wagner.  He has 6 months in the mission.  He is a great kid. 

So now you know.  Everything changed once again.  So, yea that was fun.  We said goodbye to a lot of  people for Elder Stutz.  Elder Wagner was actually in the same MTC group as Elder Stutz.  Weird huh.

Thanks for sending the shoes.  I hope to see them some day! Ha ha. I'm sure I will in a few weeks.  

Anyway, that's all I got for you this week.  Enjoy your week. 

Love ya

Elder Obray