Hola-po (January 10, 2011)

Hey! Today was cambios but my companion and I are staying where we are. Its good because we have seen a lot of good things happen here these past six weeks and we want to continue with it!

We were talking to a lady on Jonathan´s street that lives across and she was commenting on how much he has changed. It really makes me happy to hear of how the Gospel really does change people for the better. She says he is really pleasent to talk to now and he cut his hair. (All the flites here have a stripe down the center of the back of their head that is longer than the rest.) So, he has really cleaned up and now he is sharing the Gospel with his friends and trying to invite them all to church. He slpet in so he didnt come to church yesterday and was going to recieve the priesthood, but we have to keep him animated because he lives in a rough part so he could fall back easily! We are working with his sister and she is on track to get baptized in a few weeks!

We have been sharing with another teenager too, Luis. He told us that he stays alone in his house a lot and just reads and meditates. So, he doesnt have too many friends but is really nice. We shared about the Book of Mormon and gave him one this past week. We came back to share two or three days later and he had already read up to 1 Nephi 14, including all of the testimonies at the beginning! He was cross referencing it with the Bible and had some questions for us. He asked us the questions, we would answer them, he would cross them off and understand completely fine. We walked with him to church and he said he really enjoyed it. We went with him to second hour and someone was talking about members sharing with friends. Someone said that all members need to share with their friends because, ¨if you dont have friends, your the last of the last!¨ That was a dagger for Luis but everything ended up fine. We smoothed it out and he didnt end up offended.

We have found some other people this past week too including a mom and two sons that moved into our sector recently. The mom and a son were baptized a few years ago but the other son is now old enough to get baptized so they are going to go to church again and he is going to get baptized!

Well, I guess I just talked about the investigators this email but I love them! Ive been working really hard to develop a love for Heavenly Father´s children and show it more. I think it all starts from there and the rest just falls in to place.

Love yall!
Chao!