.. feels like it was a day long! Ill report on a few main things... As of last Friday, Elder Davis and I have erased English from our vocabulary! As I have been told from a few people, the best way to learn is just do it 100% and thats what we decided to do. Its difficult for me to transition from English to Spanish all day so if I just stick with one language its a whole lot easier. Scripture study and journal writing are still in English (even though I catch myself writing Spanish in my journal on accident a lot) but its 100% as far as conversing. Over these four days that has been only Spanish I can already see a huge leap that would not have been possible without the help of the Lord.
There were a couple more of the Lord´s baptisms that we were able to be apart of yesterday. It was of a couple that showed up to church about 4 weeks ago and asked us how long it takes to be baptized! They are thinking about the bigger picture now because they are having a baby in a few months. They were prepared to be baptized before we even taught them. We just sort of walked beside them along the path I guess you could say! Marcello was having a few second thoughts before baptism but in the end, he was really joyful. Marissa was wanting to get baptized a week earlier than she was! But, we needed to teach them a couple things and they needed a certain amount of church attendances. Its amazing how we were able to be apart of that.The Bishp baptized them.
We had breakfast as a district this morning. We made some french toast and chorizos! There are 5 gringos and an Elder from Argentina in my district. So the Elder from Argentina was the only one that had never had French toast but he enjoyed it. We went to Concepcion after that and took care of our VISA´s. There are 3 steps to it and we finally finished the last step. Some sad news was that we went to the office to pick up mail and for Elder Davis to get reimbursed for some bus tickets for interviews and someone from the office told us something concerning an Elder we know. An Elder that just left my district, Elder Law, is now a zone leader with barely a year into the mission. I had the opportunity to go on splits with him a couple times and I look up to him so much. He testifies so strongly and really loves the people. But anyways, the sad news is that he has to go home and end his mission early because his spine has something wrong with it from all of the walking. It runs in his family and his sister, who served in Concepcion also, went home early for the same back problem. I feel for him because he was a natural leader and just a good person. It really makes me count my blessings of my health.
Here a picture! I love yall and thank you so much for the letters!
Elder Gregory
