Email Letter - 14 January 2009

Hey Family,

This week has been an interesting one with lots of ups and downs. I will be staying here with Elder Alarcón for the next six weeks again. We are staying just us two because of the lack of missionaries. That’s a little sad to say but it’s the truth. We will continue to work with faith and try to do our best with the big area and our responsibilities in the Branch.

Even with all of the work we have found time in our busy schedule to have a baptism this Saturday! We are going to be baptizing a guy named Hugo Dimartino. He is about 50 and his wife is a member. We had a lesson with him on Friday night and finished up everything which included tithing which on Sunday he paid! It is a blessing to have someone so willing and ready with such a great testimony and to be here to see his baptism happen.

I guess having to work in this huge area with just the two of us has its blessings for not only us missionaries but for Hugo as well. It has been great to watch him grow in faith and to help him get to this day. We have been working hard with everything we do and we are receiving many blessings for the work that we are doing and I can see it every day.

I love being here...yes even with the heat and even though it’s been a bad week. This one is a short one because nothing really cool happened this week but I love you guys and I hope all is well with you. Take care.

Tay