12-09-13

Nine years old?  Pa!!!!!! mi hermanito está creciendo cada vez mas rápido!  Feliz cumpleaños hermano.  Te quiero.  I can`t believe that there is less than one year left.... seriously. like it doesn`t enter in my brain. haha.  My whole mission I have had those little "Memories" moments when I remembered "What happened a year ago...” ha-ha.  Now, every time I share a story about something that happened a year ago, it will be missionary stories!  Ha-ha.  :)  I love being out here so stinking much.  There is just no way to describe it in English.  Saturday we had a zone conference where our stake president came and spoke... let me tell you, there is a LOT of work to be done here in Las Piedras but the Lord has called one Brilliant man to lead the bishops and branch presidents in our stake.  He helped each one of us break through in revelation for our own areas in HOW TO WORK WITH THE MEMBERS AND LEADERS!  Man it is so stinking important.  We had 3 investigators in church today.  Let me tell you.  I love missionary work.  It has been hard to have such and INCREDIBLY long time without progressing investigators or investigators in church.  But yesterday, we had legitimate progress as THREE non members showered and got ready yesterday to go to the chruch.  Today all three of them came to play Futbol with us and when we ended, they all wanted to know the next time we were going to come over to their house!  One’s name is Michol.  He is a super soccer player and schooled us all today, he understands doctrine as it is taught to him... without delay.  Haha.  So many of our investigators have HUGE barrios that impede their progress in accepting the Gospel, but Michol is ready, he is 21 years old, has a kid but is not married nor living with the mother, and is currently fighting a small case of skits-o-fren-i-ee-ah.  No idea how to spell that. haha. But when we are in the charlas, HE explains to his parents the doctrinal points that we have discussed and then his parents learn even more!  oh it is so beautiful... the other two investigators are Braulio and Nahuel.  Nahuel has some real learning disabilities.  We have had three lessons with him already and wow... things are moving slowly.  It is quite a blessing that his mother is able to teach him along side of us.  She is a less active that we have recently re-activated and she wants her son to get baptized so so bad.  But we have to make sure that he makes the division for himself and that he understands the doctrine.  Braulio is his Uncle... (the brother of Nahuel`s mom)  But they are both the same age. haha.  Kind of a "Westover family" ha-ha.  They both are 12 years old and super interested in futbol... like most kids their age. Ha-ha. but Broulio has a special ability to bring the WHOLE world with him. He is a very popular kid and when we have charlas with him, almost the whole neighborhood is in the house because he is there.  We are excited to see his desires to learn the gospel because we know that if he decides to be baptized, we will see many more young men make the decision.  

Can’t wait for our Christmas scype call!  This Christmas music is getting me super excited. :)  I love the Christmas season!

Thanks so much for the quote.  I have told many people something around those same lines because they always say, "if your church preaches so much about families and how important they are, what the heck are you doing on the other side of the world for? I mean you can’t even write them or call them save ONE day a week! What are you CRAZY?"  Interesting to see how powerful it can be to answer them telling them that i left my family and comforts of the Usa so i could stand in front of THEM, and teach THEM how to improve their lives.

Love you all.

Until next week, keep looking for miracles and find those less actives who need some help.

Love

Elder Reay

P.S.  Can’t remember if I told you or not, our church has been burnt down for almost two months now and we have our Sunday meetings in las piedras, the church has contracted a large buss for everyone to make it there.