Feburary 25, 2013

Hey Guys,

This week has been a little stressful. Elba the baptism we had almost didn´t get baptized. We taught Tithing and Fasting and for the first time in my mission someone told me they were willing to pay tithing but fast offerings no. I went home that day a little worried for lunch and the whole time all I could think about was fasting so we started a fast at about 2:30pm. The next day we brought and ex Bishop with us because ours was out of town, we had a great lesson and finished our fast at 7:30pm. The longest fast of my life but also one of the most meaningful. Every time I felt hungry or thirsty all I would thinking about was Elba. It was a cool experience. Thankfully everything went well and we had a great baptism. 

As for other parts of our work this week we were lacking. But we have 4 possibles for this month, we just need to keep finding.  Elder Perez is dong well, sometimes I still feel like he is a little weird but he is a good guy. He is one of those people that is to nice that it gets annoying. Always asking to help but is willing to suffer through anything so there isn't a problem for anyone. Or he will be first to a door then half way through before say "oh sorry then tries to let you pass first". There are a lot of other way he does that but it isn´t something I should let bug me it is just sometimes annoys me. In other news our lessons are become more spiritual which is a goal I have had for the last month or so. Sometimes I think as a missionary you get stuck in a groove of teaching the same principle and don´t relay on the spirit as much, but training has helped me out a lot on that and one of our investigator accepted fecha(date) for the first time in 1 month after a really spiritual lesson. So things are going well, but President called me the other day, I thought he was going to say "Elder Wray for Zone Conference we are going to do Divisions" but it was something worse. He said "Elder Wray the 11 of March someone from Salt Lake City is coming down to see how we are doing and they are going to spend a day with you and your kid(companion). What a blessing!", haha! not really something I want to worry about but what ever. We will see how it goes. Also today the Crawfords called me and told me to start looking for a house for a companionship of sisters that are going to be put in my ward. I will have to talk to President tomorrow during Zone Conference to get more info. But I have worked a lot for the Crawfords in my mission.

I don't know if I ever told you but I have been learning piano during Pdays and after District meeting for the last few weeks. I am picking it up pretty quick for someone that can only practice like 40 minutes a week. I can almost play with 2 hands but I can play anything from the two hymn books one handed. Also today an Elder brought music to a coldplay song not sure if it was trucho to try to play but it was fun. Something I will have to look into when I get home. Anyway that's about it. Got to go chao.

Love you

Elder Wray

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