April 16, 2012

Hey Guys

This week was pretty good we didn´t feel like we were having much success but at the end of the week things came together. We have a baptism this weekend which is good. We have been working with Miguel since before I got here and he is now ready. He is really smart and understands a lot. The ward is really behind him we have had a couple young men in the lessons and he seems to fit in. Sadly our golden family coulndn´t come to church again because the mom was in the hospital but I think the ward sent someone to check on them. We lost one investigator because his dad says he isn´t old enough to get baptized. We can still teach him and he can still go to church with his grandma but he can´t get baptized. The dad says he doesn´t want him to confuse school with church. It is a bolazo no mas. We are going to work a little more with the family to find out what the doubt of the dad is. 

Elder Fonseca is doing well, but he keeps telling me if he dies(goes home) here he doesn´t know how well he will finish kind of scares me if I am still his comp. But guess what changes are next week. I can´t believe it has almost already been another 6 weeks, what happened.  Hey sorry I forgot to say happy birthday last week but "Happy birthday Mom". I can´t believe I will be 20 in two weeks. What the heck that is so old! I also have my stuff to vote but I don't know anyone on the ballot for Idaho. I dont´ know when we get the presidential but you will have to fill me in on that. Also you are going to have to call me again in a few weeks so start thinking about how you are going to do that. Do you know what happened to Nick Richards? I think he got home last February but I am not sure. The rest of this letter will probably just be random. Like tell Elizabeth good job I am sad I missed it. Also their is this family in this ward that is hilarious. They have two boys, that are 7 and 5. Every time I go to there house I feel like I am watching funny home videos. This kid talks with his body and light saber noises more then words it is great. His Spanish is horrible but it is a lot of fun to watch them. Elder Fonseca taught me a couple magic tricks that I did for them. Oh and I had my first talk in the field yesterday. It was horrible! I wrote it like a month ago and when I got up I wasn´t feeling like it was what I should say. I should have just put it to the side and talked about something else but I didn´t and it wasn´t what I wanted. But what ever, first one.

I have had some interesting thoughts running through my head as a missionary. I really wish I had magnified my calling when I was at home. As a missionary you see things from the out side kind of. This isn´t your ward but you visit everyone and so there is a lot of gossip that you hear and you see that things don´t work well when people don't do their calling. And there are times when I think man I can´t wait till I get home so I can do that calling right and everything will work and the ward will grow and we will have a lot of success. Then I always have to tell myself -Hey what are you saying, you are a missionary, there isn't any other call I could have to help build up the church. My life is to build the church right now. Don´t worry about what so and so is doing over there I just have to do my job... Sorry I got distracted by an Elder just found out his sister is getting married and I lost my train of thought. But needless to say I need to work on humility.

Not much else is new I don´t if anything special will happen next change Elder Fonseca keeps telling me he is my last senior comp I really hope it is not true. I don't feel like I am ready. But then I do divisions and I am senior comp and I do fine, Spanish just worries me some days. Sorry I can´t add pictures today the computer isn´t working well. Oh almost forgot, I have had bed bugs for the past 2 weeks. This morning I had 16 bites on just one of my thighs. But I get a new bed out of it I have to buy it after this. But don´t worry it could be worse. One elder came to the mission really skinny then bought the wrong medicine for a medical reason he has had since birth, killed his metabolism and now is really fat. So I will take my new bed! Anyway that's about it.

Love you 

Elder Wray