01-28-14

Well, tomorrow is change day and there is only ONE person changing out of my district.  Hermana Young is leaving.  That is the only change. ;) I’m quite content.  Even though there are some difficulties between my companion and me, if I had been transferred, I feel like these difficulties would have stayed that way forever.  Now I have another 6 weeks to get things in order and get our area back up and running. ;)

I am still with elder Parker, we are working on getting some more activity in our area, the other two gringos that live with us are still going to be here, one of them is going home this change... valiente.   Hermana Coon will be here for ANOTHER change.  I thought for SURE she was going to leave, seeing as this is her area of Oro, where she started her mission 6 months ago!  Haha, But I am very thankful that God has kept us in the same district and I hope to learn even more from her during this change.  This will be our 3rd change together.  Can’t remember if I told you or not, She was trained by the only girl in my group, Hermana Ahern (I think.... not a hundred percent.) so that is where allot of her AMAZING missionary skills come from. :)  She has an investigator named Kholo and I interviewed him this week for his baptism.  Well, it was the first person that I have decided to change the baptismal date on (Man that is hard to say in English... not sure if you understood. ha-ha.)  In the interview I felt he was unprepared and needed more time, due to many impressions and many answers that he gave me.  I have not told hermana Coon the whole reason why he cannot be baptized but we will have to keep him in our prayers if we want him to be baptized, he needs the repentance process really bad.

It seems like EVERY pday here is a rainy day.   Ha-ha.  Last week, it rained HORRIDLY hard, with wind and everything.  Our power went out this week and boy howdy, that was an experience.  The power went off at about 12 midnight and I wok up at about 12 30 dying from HEAT!  Without fans, we die... when I woke up, I realized we didn’t have power, so I figured there were two options, one, the main breaker outside went off or two, the whole manzana (Whole Block) was without power.  I grabbed my flashlight, put some shorts on and looked over at my companion’s bed... to find it empty.  Ha-ha. He had woken up from the tremendous storm and was trying to sleep in the living room where there seemed to be more air flow.  I went out side in the drizzling rain to find that the breaker was untouched and that we were out of luck... I tried to go back to sleep but couldn’t due to the humid HUMID heat and the pasty mosquitoes that attacked me all morning long.  That was one long night. ;) Ha-ha.  So many experiences like that that is only learned/experienced on the mission.  So many experiences like that that I haven’t shared yet. :) Ha-ha.

I am glad that you all got my letter!  Love hearing everyone’s replies and reactions.  I have another one to send out tomorrow when I go to Malvin.  

Love you all so stinkin much!
Elder Reay