January 2, 2008

ya, it was way awesome to talk to you all on christmas. We didnt get to do anything special for new years. We had to be inside by six. It souended like world war three had started outside because of all the celebration. Everybody had fireworks the shooting kind. It was pretty funny. I thought to myself...this must be what its like to be in the middle of a war. Yesterday we had our presidents intervews, it was really good. also we had to go on a drive to caguas. The caguas stake is doing some mini missions and president dewsnup assigned one of them to serve his week long mission with us. So now Ive got another new companion. His name is elder Castro, and he says he doesnt believe that he is related to fidel. so that reassuring. On sunday we had Nelia Javier in church again with her six year old daughter. She also brought her little sisters and a friend. It was really cool. We extended a baptismal invite to her, but she has not accepted it yet. I am sure that she will soon though. Her friends name is Albita and we have started teaching her as well. It is going really well. We have a lot of people committed to coming to church this sunday, I am praying that all of them can make it. We found two really cool families yesterday. I think the new kid is our goodluck charm. One said that he used to have the missionaries over back the last time a hurricane hit and the missionaries helped him to get everything cleaned up. He said that they he was supposed to be baptized but he wasnt. I dont know why yet. the other is named Joshua. He is a way cool kid we taught him the first lesson and afterwards he said that it all made such great sense. He has to work this sunday but wants to come the following sunday. The work is moving right along.So how are you all enjoying your gifts. Did you get them all super glued yet? I bet that max has some long meaningful conversations with his new friend. Everybody is excited to be going back to school i bet. All the kids here are out of school until next week because they celebrate three kings day on the 6th. But they only get two months of summer break.Elder Beatty is doing great. His spanish is still coming along but he is doing a lot better with it. It takes a lot of practice to get good. Even just understanding people can be difficult here, even for me at times. They speak a very broken spanish.Ya, elder wells got a little bit crazy on the tape. He had a blast with it. But that was elder wells personallity anyways. Now elder wells is with a latin, so no english. Its really hard for him.I got a letter from alonso yesterday. You still hadnt sent me his adress. Slacker. But now i got it. He seams to be doing well. His hair looks a little long in his picture, but its colder there.LoveElder Osterloh