Feb 22nd The New Car

I got the letter on Tuesday of last week, the 16th. (this letter was explaining to him that our house is for sale) Don't worry about me, I'm fine. When I was a little surprised, but I feel like its what the Lord wants. It's a little sad to think that I won't see my home again, but I'm OK. We had a really busy week and I didn't even think about it really. I have noticed that your mind doesn't really have much room for anything else when your on your mission. It takes everything you've got.

The car is still being repaired, but we went to the office on Tuesday and received a new car. A brand new car. The Fleet Coordinator just bought 2 2010 Subaru Impreza's to replace the two oldest cars in the mission. We have one of them until our car is repaired. When I drove the car home from Queens it had 24.2 miles on the entire car. I haven't ever driven a car that is that new. It's really nice, and I get to drive every day! woo hoo!

We had M's baptismal date for the 21, but we've ran into a little snag. She wants to wait for her boyfriend to get back from Guatemala before getting baptized, more or less. Its a little more complicated, but I don't want to tell you everything. But we set a new date for the 10 of April. Her daughter on the other hand Z, and her friend W, have baptismal dates for the 14th of March and they are both awesome. They love the gospel and have both received a witness of the truthfulness of our message. They come to church every Sunday and are very excited to be Baptized.

This is the final week of the Transfer. Elder H has served here for 6 months so we think he will leave, but you never know. President didn't tell me much in my interview. But we will find out either between Thursday and Friday if one of us is going to be a leader of some sort, or Saturday night.
On Wednesday we had our DEEP CLEAN of our house. It looks nice now, mas o menos.
It's a pretty old house. President Nelson bought a CO detector for every missionary pad, so there's no need to worry.
I went on exchanges with Elder F on Friday. He's a swimmer from Utah, I think we may have raced against each other before, but we haven't ever talked until the mission. He's a cool kid. His little brother swims as well. It was nice to spend a day with a swimmer and talk about stuff that no one else understands... ha ha. He's my zone leader and a really good missionary.
On Saturday we went and visited a less-active in the ward Hermana S. She is Chilean and she lived about 1 hour north of Santiago, by Vina Del Mar. She is super cool. we talked for a really long time. I was on exchanges with elder J and he speaks no Spanish so he fell asleep. ha ha. Just for a minute or two. But it was really great, and she came to Church Yesterday! Her Husband and Daughter are in a rock band and they are going to make their first CD in a month or two. They are really good, her daughter is the lead sing and guitarist and her husband plays the bass guitar. You should look them up and listen to their music, most of their songs are in Spanish but a few in English as well. The name of the band is "MR. NO-SHAME". She's way cool. Her husband is a member i think, but i'm not sure if her daughter is baptized, they all live together, so maybe we can teach them all one of these days.
Sunday was the 1st annual Branch Conference of the Riverhead 2nd Branch. So that was exciting. There was a lot of good talks and we had 4 investigators at church and they all really liked it. The translating went OK in sacrament meeting, but the combined priesthood-relief society meeting went really well. He talked slow and the talk was really good. I felt like i was saying exactly what he was saying and it felt really good to know that i was doing a good job. I feel really dumb when i don't know what to say. Not too dumb though, I just laugh at my self and the members do too... No they don't laugh at me, but they do look back and smile sometimes, when I seem like I'm struggling. I do my best, and it's getting better each week.

It sounds like we are all pretty busy. Keep me updated on the house situation and where everybody is. What are you going to do with Kodah and Bella when you move out? Just let me know whats up, and I will worry less if i know. As long as I'm working hard I don't seem to worry too much about home. I Pray for you, but then I go to work and focus on the people that need me most. You guys already know why were here on earth and what the game plan is. So I don't worry too much about ya. But I do love you and miss you. Thanks for all of your love, support and example for me.