Hi family,

Thanks for all the letters and prayers! Things are going good and normal in the mission again so we are grateful for that. I will go ahead to try and summarize the week here, although this letter might be a little shorter:

Tuesday:We had the zone leaders come and teach with us. Everything went well and it is always fun to learn from the leaders. We had Elder Hutchingson from Orem come with us and he is a great guy. Later in the night we had a family night with some members and investigators and I was up to teach the lesson of the night. We had been working on this little game to teach the plan of salvation so I taught that. It was something that my old companion Elder Novoa taught me but I had never taught it so it was a little nerve wracking. We ended up missing some parts of this interactive lesson and messing up, but everyone thought it was funny! 

Wednesday: We taught this lady that Elder Darley (the other Elder in my house from Logan) and I found when we did divisions. It was funny because this lady didn`t want anything to do with us and she kept on saying that she would never listen to us at first. In this lesson she told us that when Elder Darley and I were talking to her she had felt something that made her want to listen to us. I know that the spirit must have been touching her a little and hopefully she will start listening more even though she still says she would never be baptized! We also contacted another lady that said she was Catholic and would never change religions in the night. One thing that takes a while to learn in the mission is that there is no need usually to ask permission to share something with people. A lot of people will not want to listen to missionaries by instinct, but as you start teaching and testifying people often change. We started teaching this Catholic lady and by the time we started testifying of the restoration she was a lot more willing to listen and even wanted to come to church with us! Well she didn`t end up coming to church and we still have to follow up with these ladies, but it was just 2 cool experiences of finding people that don`t happen every day!  

Weekend: On Saturday we had the baptism of Nasly! She wanted to have the baptism at 3 in the afternoon which was kinda a bummer because not many members could come. The baptism was good though, just basically her family and the missionaries. The missionaries from the other ward came too and helped us do a special musical number. They sang "if you could hie to kolob" some verses in english and some in spanish while I played the piano. It turned out alright even though there are some latinos that couldn`t carry a tune if it had a handle on it! Elder Vaca did the baptism and I did the comfirmation on Sunday. 

Sunday:We have a frustrating sunday to start. We only had 3 people come to church with us and several people that said they were coming didn`t show up. I taught the class to the investigators all by myself so that was challenging. It is always hard with investigators because they don`t really comment anything. I felt like I was just talking and talking so I had us break into groups and study some scriptures on obedience. The other frustrating thing is that we went to visit Nasly later in the night and caught her drinking coffee! haha guess we have to go over some things with her again. We chewed her out a little for it and I think she felt kinda bad, but not sure why she was drinking coffee the day after her baptism! The night turned out a lot better and we had some good lessons. 

There is my week! Oh and to answer your questions mom: Yes we have lunch appointments every day. In Colombia Lunch is the biggest meal of the day! The members are really good most of the time. We have had some service opportunities, although that is something we need to work on. We helped this later haul a cart of juice down this huge flight of stairs and ended up contacting her! That is something we need to work on. This week I have been trying to improve my charity for people and really pray that I can have love for people. I know that as I pray to develop charity and look for people to serve I can improve in that like you said mom. Got to go love ya all!

Elder Armstrong