Monday, September 3, 2012

Letter Dated September 3, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad,

OK, well I am glad to hear that things back home are going pretty good.  No problems.  Nothing too exciting happening.  I sent a picture of when we had the conference with Elder Vinas.  I dunno if you'll be able to find me.  I'm in the middle.  I'm short, ha ha.  But that's half the mission.  Oh hey, that drug about the zombies is creepy.... I can't sleep at night anymore.  Well that's not true.  When my head hits the pillow, whew, I'm gone. 

Yea I thought about extending my mission.  I will talk to the mission President and what I can do, its not very likely, I know they don't like to extend missions.  I think I have interviews with him next month, in October.  So I'll tell you more then.

Go Hillcrest.  Beat those Bees .  Sounds like Hillcrest has a good team.  You'll have to keep me updated about that one.  Mitt Romney better win.  If he does, I bet we here some stuff about it down here in Argentina.  Should get us into a few houses.  

Anyway, so this week was a pretty good week.  I had leadership meeting Tuesday so the start of the week was good, but rough at the same time because I wasn't in my area till Wednesday.  The meeting was great.  I got to see a bunch of my missionary friends.  Which was good cause I might not see lots of them again for a long time, since we got a good group dying in September and another in October... 

So at church we had some pretty good success.  Fernando went.  He didn't go last week because he may have a hernia (I don't know how to spell that).  So he couldn't walk for a while.  He is a bit better.  He came to church on his bike.  We might baptize him this week.  But I think it will be the 14th, because we have the rededicating of the temple of Buenos Aries this weekend.  It's on Sunday and well, we don't have regular church meetings just the rededicating and Fernando can't go to that.  And he can't get the gift of the holy ghost.  So I think that next week is better.  But all the investigators will go to a special activity Saturday night.  So we are pretty happy with the progress we had there.

Francisco also went to church.  He honestly is doing super good.  We had an awesome lesson with him Wednesday night.  It was great because he really felt the spirit.  It helped him to see that this is something he actually needs and wants in his life.  I was pretty happy for what happened.  So he went to church with his less active dad who goes once a month.  His dad was super excited that someone in his family wanted to go to church.  The dad is the only member.  So we hope to have some pretty good success here.  We hope to get the whole family.  But the mom is a bit difficult, ha ha.  Anyway we want to help him go on a mission.  Not sure that's what he wants.  I would LOVE to see him go.  He could be a great missionary.  

Then well, a guy named Lucas found us, he is slightly mentally handicapped.  He can't understand everything, but he can read and talk perfectly.  I'm not really sure what he has.  But that's not super important.  He is looking for God, so we are doing what we can.  He is a pretty good guy.  He lives with his sister who is against us, but she doesn't have a problem if we talk to him.  

Oh, Liliana, we don't know what happened but she dropped us this week.  Which is alright.  A member who works at the hospital told us something about her.  She is actually crazy, but only sometimes.  But she has apparently almost killed several people and went to a public school to shower in the bathroom.... So I guess maybe we were protected from harm there... But she doesn't want to talk to us anymore.  So yea...what can we do.  She seemed fine when we talked to her.  I just wonder if listening to us helped for a while,  but I guess I wont really know. 

We had 50 people in church.  So we were happy.  We hope to keep that number up.  I Guess 3 or 4 people are moving to our ward as well.  That should help us out, some more super good members, we are pretty excited. 

Anyway, so that's kinda how things are progressing over here.  We are planning on having another good week this week with lots of success and such.  I also sent you a photo I got from Aaron.  Kinda a cool little picture.  Anyway, thanks for everything.  I hope the weathers good.

 Love ya,
 Elder Obray

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