06-23-14

Great to hear all the CRAZY fun things that are happening at Home.  :)  JJ may is living up the spiritual side of things going to EFY and showing everyone there how STRONG her testimony is and how MATURE she really is. :) Ha-ha.  Made me proud to read about her experiences and hear how strong she is.  It amazes me so often to see how strong my family is. :)  So weird to think about the "Normalcies" of summer vacation... it is just so foreign for me. Ha-ha.  :) Can’t wait to hear about your exciting adventures in Telluride!  

We had two baptisms in the district this week and one last week.  Didn’t bring my card that has the photos of the baptism last week, but I’ll try to remember it next week.  I baptized Facundo, a great baptismal service. :) He is friends of some recent converts in our ward.  This week my comp baptized Matias, friend of a member and the hermana´s in my district baptized José, he was a reference from the zone leaders. :) Elder Araya and Guix had a baptism as well in the same baptismal service.  It was beautiful to hear their testimonies after the service... each one of them stood up and bore BEAUTIFUL testimonies. :)  I love to see the blessings of God in my daily work and daily trials.

This week I took some videos of me playing the piano, but they are too big, I even used some other programs on the computer, but they are always too big.  I would have to cut the video in four separate emails, and my hour of email is just too precious. :) Ha-ha.  But I made a GREAT rendition of A Poor way farow" -don’t know what it is called in English... ha-ha- un pobre forastero where I started with an intro that is in a menor, and move into the song with a mayor. It also has one key change thrown in there. :) Ha-ha.  I’ll play it for you in about 5 months... ha-ha.  Crazy. CRAZY!  Hey!  can you believe that USA is doing so well in the World cup!?  Everyone here in URUGUAY is patting me on the back because we haven’t lost yet. :)  So interesting that the world cup is so HUGE here, when URUGUAY won the other day, the streets were packed with CRAZY fans honking and waving Uruguayan flags around.  We couldn’t leave the house until things calmed down... I can only imagine what things will be like if Uruguay makes it all the way to the championship!  They have only played in two qualifying games. Ha-ha.

Anyways.  I love you all so stinking much!  Make sure these next 5 months are full of missionary opportunities!  Make the decision now. :)

With LOVE;

Elder Reay