Letter Dated May 21, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad;

Well sounds like a good little week for you guys back home.  Nothing to excited.  But hey, that's good. You just cant have to much fun without me ;).

So I just finished up my 1st week here in Tres Arroyos.  Betolaza and Savedra would be the corner of the street we live on.  There are us 4 missionaries living there.  We have a small car patio too, I can't think of any defining features to help you see the house... but its on the corner, might be the only real house I can't remember.  But my area is the street we live on and everything below (south I think, but who knows).

So Monday, well we tried to visit some people, but we didn't really get anything.

Tuesday, we did lots of contacts as Elder Caceres showed me around and where and who are all the investigators and such things.

Wednesday, we chatted with the wife of the branch presidents mom, Nancy, who has talked to the missionaries for a longgggg time, but has yet to get baptized.  We talked to her for a time, it was good to meet her, she is really friendly.  Of course the goal is to baptize her, ha ha.  Then we found 3 newbies.  Fernando, who is an older guy, who we just knocked his door and we got in.  He is really good, and accepted a baptismal date.  Then we found two ladies out knocking doors, Brenda and Valeria.  Apparently Valeria almost got baptized years before, but it just didn't happen.  We taught Lesson 1 and they both accepted fechas.

Thursday, we did weekly planning, then I met 2 other investigators that they already had, 1 is a recent convert and her mom who would get baptized but she is living with a menos activo who doesn't want to go to church yet, ha ha.  The other was a little girl (Aylen) who's grandma got baptized and always brings her to church, we have to get permision from the mom and dad to baptize her.  When we ask they are just kinda uhhhh yea we will think about it.  So we hope thing work out there.

Friday, we went to Nechochea (its our Zone) for a roundtable (leadership meeting) so yea there we talked about rules and such thing.  I saw Elder Stutz who is in Necochea right now, he is doing pretty good. and then we came back.  We didn't do much else.

Saturday, we knocked lots, and at like 7 I saw a house with one of those looking wholes to see who is knocking, but it was glowing red.  So I was like "Hey lets knock that door", and we found a newbie, Julian, a 90 year old guy,  He is actually surprising still smart.  He didn't want to go to church cause it was cold.  But still, we are going to see if we can get a member to pass by him with a car.

Sunday, lets see 2 investigators went to church.  Laura and Aylen.  So that was good, I met a bunch more members.  Then we went out and Worked.  We talked to Nancy who now wants to get baptized, maybe this week or the next week!  So we are pretty excited about that.  Then we also visited Flia Asuncion who are Menos activos, but he was branch president for a while with a super good testimony. He knows what he has to do.  He even started crying to us.  I felt pretty bad for him, but we had a good chat and gave him a blessing.  We reallllly hope they come back, cause the branch could really use their help out here.

So yea that's pretty much what happened to us this week.  It was a pretty decent 1st week, this next week we are going to do even better.

I am learning the area pretty quick, I think I get the areas faster every time.  I think I am going to like this area, the people seem pretty good, and it's a bit easier per say, then Castex, ha ha.

Anyway I hope you have a good week and enjoy everything.

So the pictures I sent, the last ones of the dinosaur park, then you can see Pedro Cueto, a Menos  Activo that took us.  I am sending a picture of my new district, me then ELder Pino, ELder Caceres, ELder Morel, in that order from right to left, ha ha.  Hope you like them, coming up next week, some more pictures of Castex!  Woot!.

Oh a little about Elder Caceres.  First he is from Paraguay.  Second he has 1 year in his mission.  Third he just turned 21 this Friday.  (I'm cooking him brownies...shhhhhhh it's a secret).  Fifth this is his 2nd transfer here. So really we could be companions for a long time.  I guess we will see, cause he should train.  Well I think he should.  He is a pretty good missionary.

Anyway, talk to you again next week.

Love ya

Elder Obray