8/9/10

querido familia, (dear family)

pues, cunado, la obra misional esta buenisimo aca. la semana pasada tuvimos dias que fueron no tan divertido porque no tuvimos muchas citas donde las personas fueron en la casa pero tambien tuvimos dias buenos donde encontramos personas para ensenar y estamos trabajar mas con los recentos conversos y los lideres tambien. el viernes pasado, tuvimos una cita que la persona no estaba pero habia 2 hombres afuera la casa. ellos nosdijieron que la persona no estaba entonces caminabamos a nuestras bicis y yo tuve una pensamiento para dar los hombres una tarjeta. entonces noscaminamos a los hombres de nuevo y yo hable con un de ellos y mi comp. con el otro. una cuenta corta, yo termine con mi conversacion con el hombre y yo escuche a la conversacion de me comp. nos encontramos un inactivo que buscamos mucho tiempo y nos recibimos dos mas nuevos investigadores por medio del el Espiritu Santo.

(Well the missionary work is very good here. Last week we had days that were not so fun because we didnt have many appointments where the people were home, but also we had good days where we found people to teach and we are working more with recent converts and church leaders also. Last Friday we had an appointment where the person wasn't home but there was 2 guys outside the house. They told us that no one was home, so we were riding away on our bikes then I had the thought to give the guys a pass along card. So we rode back to the guys and I talked to one of them and my companion talked to the other. One short story, I finished my conversation with the guy and I was listening to the conversation of my companion, and though it we were able to find an inactive member that we had been looking for for a long time, and we received two new investigators by listening the the holy ghost.)

so i hope my Spanish is getting better. that's my spiritual experience for the week too so i hope you can understand it.

haha so i didn't know either that Shawn and crystal went. I'm glad everyone had a great time in California. Julie how did you manage to pack everything and the kids not bother you to death about it? and gemma rode a roller coaster.... wow! haha i hope a picture was taken, it'd be cool to see. again I'm glad everyone had fun. school starts this week right? oh and Tate how are ya doing with a week back?

i forgot that Stacie graduated in august. Stacie congratulations!!!

haha don't even worry about the plaque. when its done, its done. I'm not in a rush. thank you for doing that though. haha did grandma Lloyd not get a picture yet then?

so with the work, apart from the beginning, we have 4 new investigators. one is in an interesting situation. she is from Poland, learned English in about a year or 2, maybe 3, not positive and is our investigator because she is dating a recent convert who speaks Spanish natively, knows English and Portuguese. so funny combo, Spanish/polish and lessons in polish/Spanish/English since that's the communicating language. :)

red bank is getting better and has many people who need the gospel. i was told also of a letter the 1st pres. sent out that said the mission pres. should leave missionaries in areas for 8 months to a year..... we'll see with me. :)

so things are going great. i gotta go but i love you all and thank you for everything. i hope all is going well int he family and ward and if i can do anything to help, please let me know. i keep everyone in my prayers always. have a great week!!

love Craig