But all is well

Haha, I have made great progress concerning my classes. However, I won´t give you a list until next week due to time constraints and other real world complications. But all is well.

So by the way, we got hurricane rain over here. The winds didn´t hit us at all and it didn´t rain that hard, but it did rain a lot and you could tell that those were not normal storm clouds. I´m pretty sure the fact that we´re comfortably nestled in a valley in the shadow of a volcano helped with that.

Have I todl you about Alma and her family? We found Alma about a month ago searching for someone who gave us a fake address, but it turns out that Alma lived in that house and she told us that she was a member. As we started to visit her we found that her daughter Alejandra used to love church and that her husband Francisco had a great interest in coming closer to God. Alejandra was baptized this week, but will have to wait until next week to be confirmed.

We filled up the font by bucket again, but this time it was even more complicated because first we had to EMPTY the font by bucket and then we had to clean it and fill it up again. Lots and lots and lots of buckets, and now my back is sore. We managed to do all of that in an hour and a half and had everything ready for the baptism on time, it was a fantastic and spiritual experience.

José María blessed the sacrament this week wearing a tie I gave him, and Irving passed the sacrament too. Next week Augustin will bless, and I´m super excited to see it. Things are coming along here, although its obvious that we don´t live in a magical fairy land full of cotton candy and where you can eat your soup right out of the ash trays if you wanna. It takes work, and we´re going to work even harder this week. So far Elder Vergara has been able to keep up. Time to pick up the pace.

We found a lot of new investigators this week as well. Some had seen us pass by and had alwayswondered what we do, and others had listened to the missionaries years ago but had never been baptized and asked us why there are so many churches. The trick is to find the time to teach them, help the converts pass into the hands of the local members, organize the long-promised house of prayer, and lots of other stuff. Totally right up my alley.

Gotta run, say hi to Chris for me.

Love you!