It’s that time again.
1-10-11
¡Hola Familia!

I don’t have time to send pictures today and still haven’t been able to watch the Christmas movie. It takes a long time to download that badboy.

So this was probably my hardest week in the mission because we worked like crazy but it was so worth it. We started by fasting from Sunday to Monday. We usually start Saturday in the afternoon and end Sunday after church but we forgot, and boy did we pay for that. It is so much harder fasting on Monday! It did pay off though. We fasted to find a new family to teach and Wednesday we found them. They are probably the most prepared family I have found here. It’s the Olgado family and they consist of the parents and their two boys, 5 and 3 years old. You know a family is prepared when they ask questions like, Can we go to your church even though we aren’t members? It’s hard trying to stay calm and not scream yes!!! Also when you ask them to be baptized when they know the church is true and they say "alright." They do have to get married though but had actually had it in mind already (that’s considered crazy!! haha) I’m really excited for them.

Another miracle is a man named Esteban that accepted to be baptized on the first visit, and even another miracle is that we found a part member or less active family reference that we didn’t even have an address for! She is really cool and I think ready to come back.

The last miracle I will tell, before I go, happened Sunday night. Sunday afternoons are usually the hardest time to teach people because everyone sleeps the SIESTA. We didn’t give up though, and walked around all Sunday afternoon. It paid off in the night time when we were visiting a family and we got a phone call from the 1st counselor in the bishopric, that out of nowhere, wanted to accompany us in our visits. His name is Hermano Nicolas and got back from his mission like five years ago, so he knows the mission work pretty well. We visited three families with him and every single one, he had some sort of previous contact with. Also he is very direct (probably a skill from the mission) and invited them all to church. One of the visits went great, because after talking about some past experiences, that he had had with the family, they really felt the need to come back and also start teaching their children.

Well, love ya´ll and have a great week!!

Elder Tryon