27 April 2009--Casi Mayo, woohoo!

Hey family, how is everything going back in good old Provo? Things are going great here in Pichanaki. They just called a new Branch President, from Satipo, and he is awesome. He is really going to help us turn this branch into a ward. He is a return missionary, and he helped turn the branch around in Satipo. It is going to be awesome working with him. Well we reached our goal for April. It was 3 baptisms with 6 confirmations, and we had 5 baptisms with 8 confirmacions. We had three more this weekend. Mary Santa, and 2 sister, Tanya and Maria Rojas. We are working hard with their parents so they can be baptized too, and I think seeing their daughters get baptized is going to help a ton. With a bunch of baptisms in these last 2 weeks we are a little low on investigators now, but we have found a few families that are starting to progress. We have one family, the familia Naupari that need to get married. They have a goal for the end of this month to get married, and we are going to challenge them for their baptism this week.
So the work here is really going well. My companion really doesn’t have his full heart in the work, and it really makes me mad. At times it seems like things of the World are more important to him. Sometimes I want to give him a good kick in the butt, to follow the rules and concentrate more on the work. Well I guess we just end up with companions like that, and it just takes patience. The good thing is I’m forcing him to work hard, and we get along pretty well, but I think I’m ready for a change this next change. It was so great to have companions who were so concentrated on the work. Its all good though, only 3 weeks more.
We really have a lot of work to do now for baptisms this month of May, but we also have the Familia Fernandez that are members that 2 of their kids aren’t baptized. They came to church yesterday, and I think it will be really good to activate the family to see their kids baptized. They are a really awesome family, but sometimes people get ofended and don’t want to come back, but we are going to help them. Everything is going to change with this new President too. Everyone will have home teachers, and everything. I am so excited for how things are going to change, now I really don’t want to leave this next change, but we’ll see what happens. Whatever the Lord wants for me.
Well its really so good to hear from everyone, and I hope you guys are having a blast back home. Keep up the good work, and I am always praying for you. Just remember when we put our faith and prayers together anything is posible. When we keep the commandments, and always put God first it will bring us happiness. I have seen it so many times here in the misión. Thanks for everything. It is always good to hear the great successes. Love You!

Elder Lee