Monday June 25, 2007

So the mission is now officially split. We will be getting our new mission President on Friday. I am in the East mission so my mission presidents name is president Dewsnup. Both sides of the mission are getting new presidents, but I don’t remember the name of the other side’s.Arroyo is going fine. My Spanish is really improving a lot. People always ask us where we learn our Spanish from, and we usually reply “a la caňona” which basically means at gunpoint. It’s kind of like saying that we are forced to speak it, because that’s what people speak here.

July, 2007

Investigator wise, we found this really cool new guy out in maunabo. His name is Ivan. He came to church this Sunday and loved it. He is physically handicap, because he can’t bend at the waist. But we got him there and the members made it an awesome experience for him. We went over to his place last night and gave him a haircut. He had a pretty long hair dew going on. Now he looks awesome. We also taught him the message of the restauration again, and whenever I would be explaining something, a little complex, he would complete my sentences. It was really clicking for him. I am really hoping the best.

Well the people we are working with in Maunabo are going pretty slow. Except for Ivan. He is just awesome. And has a baptismal date for the 29th. Its going to be interesting though considering the fact that hi is unable to use any stairs, because he cant bend his hips, so we have to find a place (like the Beach(: ...)where he can creap in. He is so excited to get baptized, and is ready to do whatever we ask, sucha s stop smoking cigars and drinking coffee.

Monday June 18, 2007

Ya Pres. Dewsnup will be in the East, with me. You will have to tell me the names of craig and kimis freinds so that i can impress him with all the people i know. Like grandma.
So this week was kind of slow. We don’t have many investigators, but we’re working on it. There’s this one guy named Felix. He is an old investigator, from like three years ago, that we picked back up. He came to church this Sunday and loved it. But he just kind of seamed a little out of it the whole time. We are working with him; he’s got a little bit of a smoking problem though. He says that he wants to quit, that would be great if he does. We are also teaching this couple in Maunabo. We have been going out there a lot more, because we feel like there is potential out there. They are really cool. The wife is way interested and loves to read the stuff we give her. They weren’t able to make it to church this Sunday, because they already had plans for father’s day.Love Elder O

June 11, 2007

ya so i saw colby. i didnt think that he was coming on saturday, and then we were walking around down by the plaza(park thing in middle of town) and some people that we have never met before come racing up to us and say "are you the missionaries that live in jardines x 1-b?" we were like what the freak is going on. and they said that there were some americans in front of our house who didnt speak any spanish. that was around 5:30. so we ran back to the house in the car. NObody there. But there was a note from them. at 6 we had to be in the church to go out with some of the members. and right as we pull out with the members, our neighbors pulled out in front of us and said that the americans were in front of our house again. so i went over there and talked with colby for like 10 minutes because we had to go, the members were waiting for me. It was awesome to see him though. I didnt get to talk to dave and kandy, but appearantly they saw me. Then when we came home at the end of the day we found two snickers sitting by our door. so we guzzled them up. It was good.Right now we are having some trouble finding people to teach, but all is well. We have this one guy, but he has a doubt and we are trying to resolve it.puerto rico is getting really hot! I mean hot. When i was in the DR i bought some hankerchiefs(I know i cant spell) but they are coming in handy as my new sweat rags.Love you,Elder O