May 20, 2009

Well, I decided to just make another email, because that last one was ridiculous. So just email me on this account fron now on.

So everything has been good here in Arroyo and Patillas. Elder Large is from Huntington Beach, he surfed and boogy boarded before the mission. And he snowboarded, so we got stuff in coming. We are best buddies. I am blessed to have him as a comp. He served in Virgin Gorda for 6 months, so his Spanish is a lttle shaky.

Last night I found out that there is surf in Arroyo. We were talking to the bishop and his son, because his son left for the CCM in the DR today, and I asked him if he surfed, and he said kinda, so I asked him where, and he said everyone around here goes to Arroyo. So that is very interesting.! Ha! Ha! just kidding, but maybe in two years. Bishop also goes spear fishing all the time, so he was showing us all of these pictures of him holding these huge baracudas and other big fish. He said there they don't have a problem in Puerto Rico with shark attacks or any other fish.

Edwin is looking for a job right now. He is reading and praying a lot, and so is his wife. We are trying to focus on her right now, because she doesn't have to work on Sundays so we can dunk her right now if she was ready.

Right now we are really trying to find and focus on people who are prepared and are going to change. We are tired of teaching someone three times a week and they don't go to church. So now we are trying to weed people out by setting conditional baptisms with them. "If you know that there is a living prophet and that this is the true church would you be baptized?" That is within the first three minutes that we meet them so it is easy to weed the people out who are never going to do anything. We explain to them that God will answer their prayers and that they can know of these things for themselves.

We also go contacting at the University because students are open and willing to learn. We have a couple invetigators from that, so hopefully it works out good.

Today we are going up to some mountain lake for Pday, to check it out and goof around. We are going to try and find a member with some fishing poles, or if not we can buy some 15 dollar ones from Walmart. I haven't seen it yet but it looks beautiful from the pictures.

Well, the work is going good. I am loving it here in Arroyo. The weather is still nice. Sometimes in the afternoon the sun gets pretty strong, but it is nothing compared to Arizona. My Spanish is pretty good now. I would call it close to fluent. Well, you are all the best. Know that you are in my prayers every night, and that I love you.

Love, Elder Hardy