March 12, 2013

Hey Guys,

This week went pretty well. We have struggled the last few weeks to have lessons with member, but this week I have higher hopes. We are teaching the grandma(Ester) of a recent convert, and she is doing well she accepted fecha (date) for the 23rd. She just needs to be taught a couple more things and she should be ready. She has already told us she has felt that she needs to get baptized and that these things are true. Also yesterday we found a really good family who has been humbled by recent problems and is looking to God for help. It is a family of four but the mother was baptized in Rivera 5 years ago. We had a lesson with the whole family. We are also teaching a couple of young kids. They are 10(Enzo), 9(Romina), and 8(Maycol), they walk to the bishops house a couple blocks away and then he drives them to church also a sister(Fernanda) and a cousin(Belen) go to church with them but they are 7, and 6. We found them through a recent convert but it appears the mother doesn´t want much to do with the church. She hides from us. We are still trying but I don´t really know what to do. Any ideas? 

The Guy from Salt Lake comes Thursday he will spend the whole day with us. Not to excited but they told Elder Perez that he is only there to evaluate him no one else. But I am still there right next to him and I am training him so I don´t know. We will see. I also am in the process of looking for a house for the hnas(sisters) that will be getting here in 6 weeks. I was kind of hoping to be DL again this change but it didn´t happen. I enjoyed it and there are a lot of nights spent thinking about how I could teach certain principles of the work or how I could better animate them. But it is alright, it's someone else turn. Not much else to report.

 

Oh yea there is one Sunday night I had an interesting phone call. The Sunday before changes the only reason President calls someone is to call them to be Zone Leader. Well Sunday at 9 on the way home the phone rang it was a number from Deo. I was kind of like that is kind of weird. I answered and it was President. Elder Perez said my face got kind of white. Anyway he asked who he was talking to and I said Elder Wray to which he responded Oh, Oh shoot. I was trying to call Elder Millan( Elder Millan was called as ZL).  But we talked for a few minute. He told me about his exit interview with Elder Garcia. Elder Garcia went home last Friday to see his brother before he left on his own mission (His bro was inactive when Elder Garcia was my comp). Anyway President told me all Elder Garcia did was give me praise saying I had been his favorite comp and had helped him so much in his mission and that I had been a blessing in his life. It was super nice to hear. Last week I got a similar letter from Elder Navarro, telling me that I had become his best friend and he learned so much from me living my mission through the good and the bad. He has tried to follow my example. He goes home on Thursday. He is going to BYU I think but either way he will be in Utah in the end of August. Although I might not have tons of baptisms I am glad I have had such a strong impact on my comps.

 

In other news I got your package thanks. I have to write a couple letters. Anyways I have to go, Thanks for everything.

Love you,

Elder Wray