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Hey Everybody!

So, this week was full of ups and downs. Last week we met our 20 lessons taught-10 tracting hours-2 Recent Convert/Less Active lessons which is always nice to meet. But, we had 3 of our investigators come to church out of the 10 we have been teaching. It’s really interesting how Sunday’s change over time. In high school Sunday’s were a day that were kind of dreaded because there was school the next day but it was way nice because you didn’t really do anything but go to church. In college, Sundays were filled with meetings (at least for me) but were incredibly good to have. In the mission it is completely different. Sunday’s are by far the most frustrating and hardest working day of the week. Frustrating because, more often than not, your investigators find some excuse not to come to church so then you have to go find out what happened, talk to them about it..It goes on. It’s the hardest working day because it starts an extra ½ hour early, church meetings from 7 am to about 4:30 pm then you spend the rest of the day tracking down investigators and teaching until about 9:00 pm. Needless to say, it isn’t hard to fall asleep on a Sunday night.

On the brighter side though, Sunday’s are really rewarding because even one investigator at church is a success. It’s one of the coolest feelings seeing someone you are teaching, not a member of the church, go to church and just love it. Gosh it’s AWESOME!

This week has also been filled with lots of progress with our investigators. We are just so blessed down here in Montana Del Sur. There are so many people that are just waiting to have what we teach. Elder Bingham and I almost don’t have enough “good” time (I’ll explain what I mean) in the day to visit everyone. Now, “Good” Time is the time that we teach from about 11:00 am to about 5:00 p.m. (About dinner time) Anytime from about 6:00 is a pretty good time too. But, the time from 7:00 to 9:00 is just a devil to fill up. Mostly because people don’t want to be taught that late, we can’t go tracting ANYWHERE because it’s dark and late, and we can’t really visit anyone without an appointment. So, we’ve really been struggling to find a way to fill that last bit of time. We’ll figure it out eventually but for now it’s just a real pain.  But for now we’ll take what we have. Elder Bingham and I have 6 baptisms planned for next month so we’ll see what happens!

In other news, we had interviews yesterday with President Beck. Mine lasted about a minute and a half. Just really fast. But, it’s probably a good thing that it is short and not have any problems than have it be long and have things to discuss. I don’t know, they will probably get longer as my time here grows. Oh, and I feel I need to clarify the picture of my shower. That shower is not in the house but is outside in a little shed. We don’t use the shower in the house for 2 reasons: 1) The drain doesn’t work really well and; 2) It’s more disgusting looking than the one outside. The outside shower is made out of concrete with gray paint over it. There is no mold, there are leaves, scorpions, and spiders sometimes, and YES I do wear sandals. So, no worries. In all honesty, I have had some of the best showers in that thing (Better than the MTC showers I think). But, just to clarify any concerns that you all may have.

But, that’s it for this week! I’ll try and send some pictures next week. I hope that all is well and remember that you all are loved and are in my prayers!