Dear Familia! Wow. The wedding sounds fun, who all came? What the heck is wrong with Braydon? What is holding him back? Friends? Work? I remember that hamburger thing at seminary that was always fun, and that’s great you’re talking on that. I hate swearing but I have a funny story with swearing here. I asked someone the name of their neighbor to get a reference and he paused and thought for a while and then really strongly said puto (bad word) and I didn’t know what it meant so I repeated the word thinking it was the name and not knowing what it meant. He and my comp look at me really funny. I then knew I made a mistake ha! Thank you so much for praying for the families. I put in the last mail... but 4 baptisms fell through this Saturday cause they didn’t come to church... it was really hard when they didn’t come cause I really love them and they are ready just way lazy! We don’t know what to do with them because we have to drop investigators that are not going to progress so... hopefully they come next week! Yesterday in church we had a family of 3 in sacrament meeting!!!!!!!!! They aren’t gold but hey put them through the furnace and out comes gold we are going to work with them. Its a mom and dad that have 65 years, both of them and daughter of 16 years old. They are called la familia Dabado. Oh and Saturday the bishop called me and told me that I had a 15 minute talk the next day in church so I gave a talk yesterday in sacrament meeting for 15 minutes on member missionary work. It went pretty well. Oh and one more investigator (we have so many amazing investigators just all of them ether work or a lazy and don’t progress to church) his name is Aldo and he works on Sunday so we are working with that but other then that he is perfect. We taught him the first lesson and he said wow this is what I have been looking for. We gave a BOM and thought wow he is cool after we left not perfect perfect. When we returned for our next visit he had prepared food for us, told us the Book of Mormon is true, and said can I leave with you to teach other people. He also wants to read the whole BOM in under 24 hours. We are praying for his boss to soften his heart so he can have Sundays off. He is perfect! I’m learning a lot of gratitude right now. As a missionary there is so much hope in every body and you always think the best is going to happen, but then when is doesn’t turn out the way you want it to turn out it can be very depressing! Yesterday we had 3 in church and that is awesome but I caught myself thinking, what the heck happened with the others when really I should be giving thanks for the people we had! And one funny story, we walked really far into our area this last Wednesday to see if we could find some inactive member there and we found a jail As we were walking past the jail (it was jail fenced and barbwire) there were about 30 convicts playing futbol. As we walked by almost half of them yelled out ELDERS!!!!!!!! We started laughing and said hi to all of them. Then one of them said I’m a member! It was so funny. But this last week was awesome. I learn a lot every day. Right now I feel like my ability to teach the gospel simply has jump 3 levels. The spirit is helping form my sentences better. I can feel it. I have also really learned that any sort of bible bashing drives the spirit away so fast! The average temperature is about 80 right now. Its cooling down here. I walk less then in my last area but in my last area probably ... wow i don’t know mutiple multple multiple a day. Here probably only 5 more or less. Mom I tried looking for my favorite scripture for the missionary plaque and that is impossible. I picked 3: 2 Nephi 4 35-36 Alma 26 26-27 Alma 22 15-16. Gotta go the jefe is kicking us out right now. Love you Elder Shaw P.S. Caleb I will write in Spanish next time to you promise.
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