30 March 2009--iHey Hey, como Estan!

Things are going awesome here in Pichanaki. Last week was pretty stressful, but we made it through with 5 baptisms in Pichanaki. Elder Maldonado and I baptized Soledad, Benjamina, and Dina Quispe. Elder Smith and Elder Guttierez baptized Adler and Nancy. So it was definitely a good weekend I was a little bummed because one of our investigators, Roberto Trujillo had a goal for this Sunday, but he couldn’t attend church this Sunday, so we have to postpone his date for April 11th. He is really animated for his baptism and everything and is cumpliendo with all of the commandments he just has to attend the church. Other than that things are going really good. We have set a goal for 4 baptisms in April. We have Roberto, the familia Salazar, and Raul that are all already ready we just have to help them strengthen their testimonies. The familia Salazar are awesome, we have been working with them for a while, and we are going to put a baptismal date for April 11th. The husbands name is Walter, and he came up to us and told us that he went up to his boss and told him he couldn’t work Sundays because it is a commandment of God and that he is attending a church. It was Awesome!! They are really a great family. So that is how the work is going.
The weather is as hot as ever, but I am loving it! It isn’t raining as much as it did for the last couple of weeks. We are just coming into summer so we are going to get a lot less rain, and a lot more heat. Its all good though, thats the way I like it! The food continues to be delicious, the mission is really changing my likes of food. Our pensionista likes to put huge chunks of onion in a lot of the foods, and I pound it like its normal every time, and my favorite fruit is officially the banana now. Holy cow they have these little bananas here for 3 american pennies a piece, and I pound them like crazy! Don’t worry I’m not getting fat yet though. Still getting a good run in every day, and I’m improving my time. I’m down to 14.08 for 8 laps around the park. Its pretty funny there are kids in the park that see us running and start to run with us. Well it started Saturday, and it was pretty hilarious. Yeah, everything is really going just great.
Oh and Saturday was one of the best days of my life. I got the package from grandma and grandpa with a huge box of butterfingers! Wow, I just grabbed the box and gave it a huge hug. Thank you grandma and grandpa! Hey thanks to everyone for all of the letters too, it is really good to just take a break and read about whats going on back at home. Thanks for everything, Love you all.
Family, sounds like things are going great. Keep up the good work, I always look forward to hearing from you, and am praying for you always. Chow!!

Love, Elder Lee