January 21, 2012

Hey Guys,

This week was good. We had some really good lessons with our investigators some of them that looked like they might not progress have started to open up more. This week we hopefully will bring them to church. Our investigators with fecha (dates) are looking really good, reading and coming to church by themselves. With one she is not totally sure she has received an answer to her prays but this week we will hopefully be able to help her out with that. Her Baptism is the second of February. Our baptisms for this week fell one started working double shifts everyday in her job and kind of fell of the map. We will see what happens but it is going to be hard to talk to her. Our other baptism also just kind of fell of the map as well. We couldn´t talk to him this week, and the member we take to his lessons is mad at him because last Sunday he showed up to church a little late and accidentally went to the other wards meetings. The people here are a little frustrating at times I mean it is not like he was waiting at the door for him.

Our Bishop is pretty cool. I guess the best one I have had my whole mission. He is 29 and going on four years as Bishop. So he is super young and does a lot of visits. On Sunday we ate lunch with him and his family. When he found out I was a pilot he was kind of impressed, and started asking all types of questions. He wants to be one, kind of to the extent that almost everyone wants to be one. But he has read some books that I guess are about aviation. I've never heard of. Maybe you have dad. Johnathan Livingston's Seagull by Richard Bach and another by the same guy.   

Oh yea, I never told you but when I was in tres cruses the night I came up here Elder Navarro, Elder McCarney and I were in McDonald's buying Ice Cream when we saw like 5 gringos hidden in the corner speaking English. We decided to go over and talk to them. As we got closer un Uruguayo was talking to them and the guy looked at the two girls with him and said "I have no idea what he is saying". I just kind of laughed to myself thinking how dumb you feel when that happens, and it wasn´t to long ago when I was there. Anyway as it turns out. The two girls were from Toronto Canada we never found out where the others were from because Elder Navarro kind yelled no way Elder Wray is from Canada and we never got back to asking. Then when they told us they were doing a study and making there way from Argentina to Brazil and the Chile. Elder Navarro interrupted again I´m from Chile. Haha it was kind of funny really thinking back on it, it was like he was tring to impress them and get their number or something. Anyway by that point they had finished and headed out. But it was cool to find someone from Canada here.

Today we played soccer but before in the morning I tried fixing somethings around the house. I fixed this blinds curtain thing that was completely destroyed. When my comp came out of the bathroom he was like wo how did you do that. I laughed and told him with 20 minutes and a little bit of thinking. Next on my list is the spare room light doesn´t work maybe I can finish that before President comes to interviews on Wednesday and checks our house but it should be a little more tricky. This morning I also fixed 6 door handles in the chapel that had almost been completely pulled out of the doors. I don´t know why people don´t take the little bit of time to fix stuff like that. It only took like 20 minutes and now all the doors close. 

Anyway to close something that has impressed me in my mission and I will try to avoid at all costs in my own house when I get home. How quickly the spirit leaves a home when there is contention and yelling. As missionaries we try and have the spirit at all times but sometimes when you are in someones house waiting. Sometimes the people there get in arguments and sometimes yell but you really don´t even need to get to yelling before the spirit leaves. It is something I never really felt as a kid and I remember having Family Home Evenings over this but this week will struck me hard as I thought about the scripture in 3 Nephi 25 mas o menos. Anyway Have a good week got to go.

Love

Elder Wray