April 27th

Dear Family,

(Oh, I almost just killed the computer, there is this funny button with a moon on it. right above the up button on the keyboard, and foggetting that curiosity killed the cat, I pressed the button and the coputer screen went blank....all my emails I'd written in note pad were lost...I was almost ready to panic...but I decided nothing worse could happen if I pressed the moon button again, so I did...and it restored the screen again...phew).

Anyway, this week was pretty crazy, we didn't get to teach hardly anything (only two lessons the entire week) because we were spending all of our time preparing for, and inviting people to an Obra Misional fireside on Thursday. We were going to have one of the Mission president's councilors some and speak, but last minute he couldn't, so we had to fall back on two ward members. We had invited nearly a hundred people in the streets, and nearly all the active and semi-active members, and we had an audience of 25ish, with only one street contact, but  it still went well.

This week we need to focus on finding new people and teaching lessons. In the last three weeks we haven't found a single New Investigator, and we should be finding 5 per week. So if you could pray for that I'd appreciate it.

Transfers are this week, we haven't found out anything yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll be staying here, we'll see.

Well I love you all, I've been trying to think of a funny story that happened this week, but my minds drawing a blank. Besides that yesterday I started talking in Vos to a street contact on accident, "¿Como es tù nombre?" which is taboo for missionaries, but he didn't notice, everyone else speaks in Vos, so that was good.

Well, I'll be sure to have a funny story to write about next week.

Sincerely,

Elder Reynolds

P:S. Appreciate washing machines. Washing your clothes by hand is kind of fun, but not as effective and nowhere near as fast.

April 20th

Hey Family,

Finally, a real letter.

I heard about Jeff, and will keep him in my prayers. My companions have loved hearing the funny stories of Jefferson, so I'm sure they'll pray for him too. I was glad to hear that he was doing better, but I guess I'll have to wait a week to find out how it turns out:-(. In the meantime I'll keep praying for him.

We baptized again! A boy named Francisco. His nick-name is Panchito,(little hot-dog), he is 14 years old, and a great kid. He is counsin with a member family, and started coming to church a couple of weeks ago. He became an instant friend with all the boys in the branch, which is awesome.

The members told us that he wanted to be baptized, and we set a date with the president before even talking to Pancho. The next day, the first time we met with him, before teaching anything my companion straight out asked him, "so, would you like to be baptised?", He nodded his head, "yes". And that was that. We taught all the lessons in two visits, he understood everything, and got baptized on Saturday. We also had 11 non-members come to the baptism,everyone loves Panchito. We're going to talk with his friends and see if any of them want to be baptized.

Oh about Mother's day. I'm pretty sure you will call me. We have a cell phone as a companionship, and we'll send you the number and you can call that day. I'm three hours ahead of Salt lake (we don't have daylight savings, so it changes from three to four hours).

The Lord has blessed us, there is still a lot to do, but I'm hoping we can finish off this month of April with a Bang.

I love you all, thanks for your emails and lettes! I'll be better at writing back. I'm beginning to master the secret arts of Missionaty email.

Sincerely,

Elder Reynolds