December 4, 2008

Hey! whats up gang? how is life? Mom, thank you so much for that package, i got it on tuesday. That caramel popcorn is SO GOOD! My district loves it! Well i hope you got my pictures, i sent them today by email. Anyways, alot of good ahs happened this last week. last saturday we went to the university, and went contacting/tracting again, and we had a great experience. When we first got there we got shot down by two groups of people, so we were feeling kinda bummed. We were walking through a park, and i said a little prayer in my heart, asking heavenly father to help me to know who to talk to. Right once i finished this, i see a man that we had talked to the previous week, and he was not interested in all, he did not even want to talk to use. So i see this man standing there, and i say, Lord are you sure? I did not want to get rejected again, but then i made eye contact with him, and i knew i had too. So we started walking up to him, and he was getting all sketchy. I could see he was thinking, "Not this americans again". So we started talking to him, and he was acting really hesitant, and he said he didnt want to hear our message, except he said it in english, so i said, oh, you speak english. And he said he is taking a class. So i said that is perfect we can practice our spanish with you and you can practice your spanish with us. So we talked for about 10 minutes with him, His english was horrible, so i told him just to speak spanish, we found out his name was julio. Finally he got comfotable, and asked us why we are here, and then he asked us if we would share a scripture from the book of mormon. I was just like, "We got him!" So we shared a scripture and asked him what he learned, and he just went off, speaking so fast, i could only understand a sentence here and there, but it was all good, he understood everything, and seemed pretty interested. He asked more questions, and we did the best to answer them, and then he asked if he could go to church. I was so excited! excpet the only problem was we didnt know where a church was, so we got his number, to have someone call him from the CCM. Then he asked if we would meet with him next saturday at the park to talk more. I was so happy, i have my first real investigator. Me and my companion have been stoked all week! I cant wait to go teach him, we are planning on teaching him the first lesson, so we will see how it goes. This whole time we have been here, it has only been us 22 americans who have come from provo, but today we got 32 latinos. it has been pretty crazy here. it is defintely not quiet anymore. But it should be pretty fun. Today instead of doing an endowment session, president asked my district to help a group with baptisms for the dead. It was so cool. I really liked doing the baptisms and confirmations in spanish. It was a really neat experience. The group that was there was all american, the men were apart of the first 10 missionaries in the DR 30 years ago. One of them is related to hawks, so that was kind of funny. I forgot their name, but just tell the hawks that they are from utah, and that he served his mission in the DR. Well i am running out of time, but i love you guys, keep the spirit with you, and keep the lord in your hearts always. Love elder hardy