May 21, 2012

Hey Guys
We had a pretty good week this week. We found a few good investigators that we think will get baptized. Last week we found the brother of someone from the last 24 converts list and he excepted fecha(date) and came to church with his brother and brought a friend so we are excited about that. The family we have been working with is going slow but we have changed ideas and kind of just given them to the young women. They invited there girls to an activity day or something like that to go to a park and drink mate and they wanted to go, we will see what happens. We hope that it gives them more desire to go to church because one of the girls thought sacrament was boring and also they can come up with a way to bring them to church. Other then that things are good here. 

Sometimes I struggle with my comp but for the most part things are alright. Yesterday I was really mad at him because we were weekly planing and it is usually a 3 hour process that he tried to do in 10 minutes. The last step is where you talk to your comp about how you are doing as a companionship and I tried to talk to him about how even though he doesn´t like someone he needs to talk to them. He has a big problem with that and and it is a big problem for us because he doesn´t like half of the ward leaders. Which means in all our meetings I do all the talking and he puts his chair in a corner and plays solitaire on the cell phone. If I ask for his input he just says "I don´t know or sounds good." Anyway he isn´t going to change so that's fun. It was a hard planing session and I got so frustrated and angry that I didn´t even want to be in the same room as him let alone go to work, I don´t know how I finished the day yesterday something made just keep going. We are better now but I was so mad at him. Anyway enough about my companion troubles. 

I don´t know if I have ever told you guys but since my time in the mission field I have been washing my garments by hand, I hate it but oh well. I also have gone 5 weeks flushing a toilet with a bucket. Anyway I got your package it was great! The ties are nice and the sweater fits great I thought it was going to be way to small when I saw it but is was perfect. I loved Kate's letters to and the fotos some of them are so old and my hair was ridiculous. I got a letter form grandma Sue. It was a good letter, I didn't know dad had a cousin serving in England that is sweet. I also didn't tell you but 2 weeks ago I finished the book of Mormon first time in the mission I started sometime in my 5 or 6th month. I was also really sick this week,  I think I ate some bad food. My body hurt really bad and I felt like I was going to throw up for 2 days. I never did, but I only got 2 hours of sleep one night.  I survived. Yesterday I ate Mondongo (cow stomach)  for the first time it wasn´t bad, the first plate was actually really good but by the second plate not as good. It looks really gross though. It is really strange here when the trees get big enough here and dump to many leaves for the people to rake up they cut off all the branches. They grow back in a few years but it is really ugly. I also learned how much people make down here. A man in our ward makes between 600 to 1000 US dollars a month and he has a nice house for here and a TV and computer. It's crazy! I can only imagine how much people make that don´t have nice things. This man also has 2 kids living at home. Well I don´t have much else to except President and his wife came to are house last Monday and said we have one of the cleanest houses they have seen. Zone Conference was really good but I forgot my camera. Anyway choa choa got to go. Love you!

Love 

Elder Wray