Letter Dated April 9, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well hope you had a good Easter.  Easter here is kinda weird.  No basket of candy or eggs hidden everywhere :( O well.

I did learn something I didn't know, ha ha.  Catholics did not eat meat last Friday.  They only eat fish.  I learned that the other day.  Cool eh.

So let's see what happened this week

Monday, we were still in Pico.  I went out on division in Pico with Elder Roberst who just got to the mission.  So he can't speak a lot.  It was fun.  We did a little family night with a member family.  It went well.  We taught the plan of salvation.

Tuesday, we had District Meeting.  Then we came home from Pico.  We visited a less active named Pedro.  They promised to go to church this week.  Hurray!  Then we stopped by and visited with Gaby and Natalia.  They are doing great.  We are going to start to go over the lesson again with them.  Then we visited Antonia.  She is doing great.  Just keeps truck-in along.  And we bought food, since we weren't home on Monday, ha ha.

Wednesday, we visited Nerain, who also promised to go to church.  We knocked millions of doors and did contacts and such fun old stuff, and visited another less active Flia Barrionuevo.

Thursday, we had weekly planning in the morning.  Then we knocked and talked lots.  Then we kinda had a lesson with Gaby and Natalia, but they had to leave early, like after 10 minutes. So we planned to finish thiis Friday. Then we went and wished Hermano Rico a happy birthday and ate cake and pizza. Yum.  Then we visited Yessid.  Who was doing pretty good.  But still just doesn't want to get baptized arpeggio.

Friday. We met a new menos activo, German. He said he would go to church. And we finished teaching  Gaby and Natalia. Then we knocked and talked. Honestly we do that all day really, ha ha.

Saturday, we did service and ate a Asado with Hermano Rico. Which was fun. Then we had a small adventure.  We did a contact and we got a direction for a house in the boonies. So we went. We found the house, but she couldn't attend us at the time cause alllll her family was there....i thought that would be a better time to get in ;) but she didn't, ha ha. So we go back another day. Then we visited Antonia. She was doing great, still.

Sunday, we had 45 people  in church.  Which is a good number.  Pedro and his family went, and Nerina went.  And Yesid went.  SO that was really good. Then we ate lunch with Flia Ferias. We gave the kids a bunch of pass-along cards.  Apparently they have been handing them out everywhere, ha ha. Little kids are AWESOME.  Then we had a chat with Yessid.  Unfortunately he told us he doesn't want to get baptized, mainly cause it would cause a rift between him and his wife. So we dropped him for a little while.  He is going to keep reading and going to church though. We tried to have a chat with German, but he was super drunk, so nope, ha ha.  He didn't make sense. Then we had a bunch of Sunday meetings. Then we made a final stop at another menos activos families house. It was the 1st time I'd passed by.  Apparently the guy Raul stopped going cause his wife (nonmember) doesn't want him to go cause it takes to much time away from her. So he stopped. LAME. Then we came home and slept....yawn.

And today, was fall cleaning. EVERYBODY, well all the msiionaries had to scrub the houses down. So we did that alll day for p-day. SO yea. We had an intersting week. Still just out looking for newbies, ha ha, but well get them. They hide, but not forever.

So anyway have a good week and I'll talk to you guys next week. Have fun in the sun. Stay dry and don't fry, please.

love
Elder Obray

Oh hey you should find me a good chocolate chip cookie recipe. They don't have those here. Weird eh?