Aug. 5.2009

Aug. 5. 2009
Hola How is everybody? So things are good here. Yesterday was zone conference and it was good we talked about committing more people to baptism and speaking to the people more. Also my companion got sick later on in the night and we decided to stay in Concordia and good thing we did because he threw up and it would have happened on the collectivo(bus). I saw the whole thing he woke up from sleeping at like 10 at night and we were all just hanging’ out and he asked if the box next to me was empty and I said “No there’s Books of Mormon in it so he got up and just started to throw up and it got everywhere. It’s really the only pench(apartment) beside the mission home with carpet and it was really funny. Also this week I rolled my ankle jumping across a sana or a open sewer but I´m doing good now and I didn’t land in it though. Also this week one night we had hot chocolate when we came back and we made it and drank pretty much all of it and we started to look and these black floaters that had been in their the whole time and they were flies or nats they must have gotten into the coco mix. Yum. Well that was the interesting stuff. This Saturday we are going to be baptizing 3 people which will be really cool. It´s the family Franco the parents are getting married Friday and the oldest daughter is going to get baptized with them the rest of the family is already members. Also we are teaching this guy Diego and his girlfriend I guess. They are not married and I guess they found each other in Buenos Aires and he´s 20 and she is like 25 or 26 and there are a lot of problems. They were all living in his mom’s house then they were building a house or living with the grandma. But the broke up and she has nothing and the only place she could go was his moms house. She also has 5 kids and they are not his from a previous relationship well they want to get baptized both of them and they were together the other day when we taught them so were not sure if they are going to stay together. But they both want to change and get baptized. The other day we taught them and we used the November 2007 General conference Liahona. I found a talk in the back it was the talk President Faust had prepared but he could never give the talk because he died before that general conference. But the talk was about change and wanting to change habits from cursing to drugs and the talk was perfect for them we pretty much shared the whole talk and I didn’t know how it was going to go because Diego seems like he would get stand offish or think it was directed all at him but it went amazing and you could feel the Spirit by the end and you could see the want to change in their eyes. But there is a lot of problems so we committed them to read the Book of Mormon at least one verse a day and to start and end with a prayer. So will see how it goes. We also have a family with a possible 14+ baptisms but the Dad won’t give permission. But he did listen to us the other day so we are preparing a lesson that will be really good and highly spiritual. So we started a 40 day fast but not of food. A fast to stop anything that drives or pokes at the spirit and so we made a list of all the things to help us also to have the spirit more. So we will be prepared especially for that lesson. The dad with all those kids is Catholic and is set in tradition. It´s hard but were not going to give up. Not this early anyways. So we have some good work for this transfer there should also be some more baptisms at the end of the transfer also.
Well since I’m all most out of time tell mom and dad and the rest of the family I love them and I love you guys to and I will talk to you all next week. Love Elder Herold