March 25, 2013

Hey Guys,

Things are going good. We had more lessons this week. We are being obedient and working hard we just need to come up with better ideas to find people. The Bishop tried giving us some advice yesterday, we will see how it goes. He kind of told us if you have been doing something for along time and it isn´t working why are you still doing it. We will see if we can try to introduce new ways to find. We visited him yesterday to see how we could help the ward and see what goals and plans they had. It was a good visit. He is by far the best Bishop I have had in my mission. We kind of made a plan of how we can help the ward progress. It pretty much involves training priesthood holders. There are only 3 priesthood holders with any experience in the ward the Bishop, his first councilor( who was the branch president a while back) there isn´t a second councilor and another member who was Bishop two Bishop's back. Everyone else is a recent convert or has been inactive for a while or for a long time and is just coming back. So the Bishop wants us to help take some of the newer members and returning priesthood holder out on visits with menos activios so they can get a feel for things. It is kind of like training home teachers I guess. We will see what happens.

We have a baptism on Saturday of the grandma of a recent convert it will be good. She is well prepared and has the desire to share the gospel with the rest of her family. That's about it. Crazy story which kind of brought about this whole training priesthood holders thing. We had a lesson with Hugo and his Wife an older couple. We tried to take the Elders quorum president but he couldn't go so he sent his councilor(Sergio) 25. Sergio looked really excited on getting to the lesson and after we got to know each other. Out of know where he starts teaching which really isn´t bad but after about ten minutes he had tried to teach tithing, temples, the plan of salvation and who knows how much more. I tried to stop him twice by saying something like y si pero Hugo como fue su lectura del libro de mormon(and if Hugo reads the book of Mormon). Every time I tried he would say wait then start again next talking about priesthood blessing and other things. Remember this is only our second lesson with the family. To top it off every 2 or 3 minutes he would say Si usted ha sentido esto bautizáte loco(If you have felt this then get baptized fool). I was so scared to lose our investigator but I think they took it alright but we will see when we go back tomorrow. They didn´t come to church. Well that's about it. 

I am still getting the area ready for 2 sisters that are coming at the end of April. I talked to President yesterday for about a half hour. We will see how it goes. In April 18 sisters are coming. That is like the size of a whole group. Anyway I have to go. Oh and the picture is of me getting my trunky papers. Meaning it had my return date on it and asked me what airport ect. I hope I put your email right. I zoomed in and saw that I spelled English wrong in English que vergüenza jaja(embarrassed Haha). 

Love you,

Elder Wray

P.S. For my birthday I can't think of anything right now. Just chocolate chips and what ever else seems good a tie maybe. anyway got to go