Mom,

Happy Birthday! Sounds like it was so fun with everything that you had going on. . .  I'm glad that you could do some things with the family. Don`t have a lot of time today, we are getting started writing a little late here. Today Elder Darley and I went to Americas, our old area. I replaced him there so we both had a lot of people that we wanted to visit. It is so weird going back to an old area and visiting people. You have the strangest feeling walking down streets that you used to walk every day almost a year ago! I was actually super sad, because I found out that two out of the 3 people we baptized there are inactive now. I don`t know if you remember about Nestor that I baptized there, but he completely hit rock bottom. I talked to the members about him and it is super sad what happened. He was saving up money for his mission and one of the ward members had given him a job. I guess he started having problems with the member that he was working for, because he was wanting to take a lot of breaks. He eventually quit his job with the member and stopped going to church and everything. He started having problems at his foundation with the people too so he moved away from Americas. He blew all the money that he was saving for his mission and even I guess sold all his books and materials that the church had given him at the local pawn shop. It was so so sad for me because he was such a good convert and the ward members had taken him in as family. It is so frustrating to have your converts go inactive like that! Especially Nestor.. We did visit my other convert there, Jonathan, and things went a little better with him. He stopped going to church, but seems like he was just being a little lazy and I think if the missionaries visit him again he will start going to church. I wrote down his number and I am going to have the missionaries there visit him. 

Nasly is doing good. She is super busy, but seems to being doing great still. We are teaching her mom too and she is progressing along too. She doesn`t want to accept a baptismal date, but she likes reading her Book of Mormon and going to church so hopefully we can get her to accept a date this week. 

Nothing much more to report. The work is going a little slow here. I haven`t quite figured out to work well with this companion. We get along great, but we just have different ideas and I`m not sure if we are working as effectively as we could. We have a big week this week to try and find a lot of people and get people to go to church. The goal of the mission is to have 15 new investigators this week and 10 that go to church, so we are going to have to work hard and have some miracles to meet those goals! Thank you so much for the updates with everything. I've got to go here, but love everybody and I will talk to you next week! 

Love,

Elder Armstrong