Letter Dated April 16, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad;

Glad everything is still going pretty good at home.

Well I haven't knocked all the doors. I've knocked lots, ha ha.  But there are some I haven't touched yet.  Give me another 3 months and yea, I think I would knock all of them. Some doors I've knocked twice though, ha ha. They sometimes tell me. ¨you knocked my door a few months ago.¨ ha ha. Well if they would just change there minds.

Oh and thanks a ton for the chocolate chip cookie recipe. I'll get to work cook'n up some of those delicious bites.

So I meant to ask you about Riley, but well now I know. I'll be getting back when he leaves.... how terrible. Oh hey and I want to know how Tyler and Bracken are doing if possible. I would think they would be going back out soon?

Anyway so we had another good ol interesting week.

Tuesday I was sick with another cold. I don't like colds. But this time I went and bought some sort of drug. I went and asked a member, and they got me some sort of vitamin c boost thing. Worked pretty well. I didn't really feel the symptoms anymore. I was just really tired, ha ha. And we went home teaching.  I don't  remember if I told you, but we home teach here. That was cool.

Wednesday, we actually found 2 newbies. Yea! They were an older couple. They had talked to the missionaries before. They liked everything and said they would read. But when we asked them to get baptized they just couldn't understand why they would have to get baptized twice. We talked about it for 10 minutes then I figured we would work on it after they read the Book of Mormon, ha ha.

Thrusday, we had district meeting in Pico. Oh hey and I got a package.  But not from you.  Jessica Heart sent me one for my Year mark?  Bit late but o well.  It was a t shirt that says Argentina Bahia Blanca mission, and a cool picture on the back side, I'll send you a picture when I take a picture of it. Its pretty sweet.  Then after district meeting we did divisions.  I went to Castex with Elder Roberts who is a new guy, he has like a month here.  So that was fun, he is still working on speaking, ha ha.  But he is new, ha ha.  So we visited Antonia and Nerina.

Friday, we worked, lots, ha ha.  Good details huh? We visited Pedro, then at like 4 when we JUST entered Pedros house it started to POUR rain, whew, Lucky eh.  But then we left it was still raining.  Oh NO. So we got soaked pretty good.  And the streets were underwater by a few inches. UGH.  We got lucky again though. We were on our way home to change and let Elder Roberts pack to return to Pico, when we got to a large river street.  Under like 6 inches of water, when a taxi guy offered to give us a ride through the river. YEA! So we took that. Only bad part of the story was that he didn't want to get baptized. Yet. ha ha. Then we changed companions back.

Saturday, we worked lots, like on Friday.  We knocked one door and talked to a older guy.  He was really nice, almost let us in.  But he decided not to. So we fixed a cita for another day.  Then we were walking away when we heard his wife yell at him for talking to us.....whew...poor guy.  That old lady sure knows how to destroy ones self esteem....I felt pretty bad for the guy... We also talked to German. who was not drunk today!  Yea!  We had a good chat.  We just gotta help him go to church.

Hemano Melchor who they ate lunch with everyday

Sunday we had stake conference in Santa Rosa. So the church rented a bus and the whole ward went on the bus to stake conference.  A seventy was there, uhh named....I'll telll you next time I can't remember.  Really good guy . I shook his hand. TWICE. Once when he entered, and once while we waited to get interviewed by the Mission president afterwards.  He is a cool guy.  So yea, we had interviews with the president, as well.  Those went well.  Then we left for home.

Monday, today we shopped. I had to buy new jeans, my old ones are destroyed with holes everywhere.  So I got some without holes. Good thing, huh.  Then we relaxed cause it was p-day.  So that was our week.  Good stuff.  We are still struggling to get some investigators.  We will see what happens this week.  We work, just haven't had gallons of investigators pouring into our cup.  I cant think of anythings else.

So have a good week.  Talk to you next week

Love Elder Obray