Letter Dated March 5, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad;

Hey well sounds like a few interesting things are going on back home.  That's good. Makes me happy.

Sounds like everyone is pretty much out or going out on the mission by now that's good. Hope Sam is doing well. We have a senior couple here that were in Madagascar as mission presidents. They say they eat rice.  Always. rice, rice, rice, rice, rice... makes me count my blessings, ha ha.

I hope Romney wins. That would be cool ha ha.  Sounds like he's doing good.

Yea I wouldn't worry to much about the kids going to mutual. A lot of them are probably like me, don't really like to go just cause they would rather be out with friends or playing soccer, ha ha.  I liked my leaders, really good people just like you guys are.

Well out here in Castex we just continue to work as hard as we can. We had the baptism of Antonia this week. I'm going to try to send you a picture here, but my companion is using my USB converter right now.  Antonia is great. She is really happy right now. She has felt the difference.  So we are really happy for her.  So Yessid, Natalia, and Gaby went to the baptism, which was great. Also All three went to church as well.  Woot!!  Antonia had a lot of trials before her baptism almost her whole family and all her friends are against her and the church. But she went ahead anyway. A great example of faith.

We still are struggling to get Yessid to get baptized.   He is ready but just doesn't feel like its the  right choice yet. I know he has felt and can identify the spirit. Maybe its just a matter of time.  But we are doing what we can.  I think he will get baptized shortly.

Natalia actually bore her testimony (shes the 11 year old) in sacrament meeting which was great. Gaby no, ha ha, but not a huge surprise.  We have a baptism date for the the 24th.  We are just trying to prep them for it. I think they both will get baptized.

With Melina we actually changed the baptism to next week cause they didn't go to church this week :( so we can't baptize her...

We are having a lot of success.  We only had 3 go to church. But that's still really good. Especially since they all should get baptized.  We are excited.

Anyway that's the biggest news of things that happened this week.

We started to teach the mom of Nerina. Her name is Susana. We are going to keep passing by to see what happens.

We did divisions this week as well.  I went with Elder Sterling from California.  Really good Elder, he has like 8 months out, but he is a superstar.  I learned a lot from him. He was hear as well to do the interveiw with Antonia. Which went well.

Oh, almost forgot the baptismal pila is small swimming pool thing.  That they put inside the church. ha ha. We went to the church a bit early for the baptism and someone left the hose on on and it was overflowing!  So we had to hurry and clean up all the water. Fortunately, in Argentina, carpet doesn't exist.  And that's how they clean floors here, with lots of water. So we really just cleaned the floor.

We did service this week as well.  We used a saw and cut down some small trees. It was pretty fun. We did if for Hermano Rico. Super good Hermano. He helps us out a ton and made friends with Yessid and always invites him over for pizza and such. Its great.

So when I went to Bahia, my comp stayed in Santa Rosa and I was on the bus alone (its not against the rules to travel alone).  Then in Bahia, the secretary picked me up and did the visa, and I came back. Great fun ha ha.

Anyway that's like all I got. Well I'll just stay around the South pole and baptize people in cold water (actually the waters pretty good, just deadly to drink) You guys can stay up north in the snow.  I'm good right here for now. Maybe when it gets cold here we could switch. I don't like the cold to much here.

So I will talk to you next week. Have fun.

Love,

 Elder Obray