11 October 2009-- Hola!

Hey Family,
How is everything going back home?! It sounds like it was an awesome conference weekend. Conference is really something I look forward to always, and its always hard to see it end. I especially liked President Holland’s talk about the Book of Mormon, and the huge spirit he had when he gave it. I’m pretty sure every single talk applied to me directly, and there are always a lot of things that I have to do better. I think that’s why I enjoy it so much though, having the prophet and apostles telling us everything that we need to do at this very moment. Its just great. It sounds like everyone is getting sick though. I hope everything is ok. The swine flu was pretty bad down here, and everyone was really worried about it. They still have someone in the door at church with hand sanitizer so germs aren’t spread as easily. I’ll be praying for Jen, and everyone else so everything turns out just fine.
Its funny because you guys are all starting the cold season, and we are heading into spring. Oh man I have always loved hot weather more than cold, so I’m pretty happy right now. It was awesome to hear you guys got the badmitten and stuff out for conference though. We had some good times playing badmitten. I’ve always loved spending conference time with the fam, and its hard to believe I’ve already had three away from you guys. Its good to hear that everyone is keeping really busy too. I’m so excited to hear how the swim season is going for Steph and Andrew. I’m excited to know how the workouts and stuff are going too. I really miss swimming big time, I really have been getting the urge to do a triathalon again, but I guess that’s just going to have to wait a little. I’m still putting down some good runs in the mornings though. We have been playing some hard core soccer too. Its usually 2 on 2 with Elder Wilding, Elder Becerra, and Elder Ranilla, and we have a blast. We even had my companion take a video of us playing, but it’s a little big to send over e-mail.
The work is going awesome. We put an investigator named Andres with a baptismal date for the 17th of October!!! We were so happy, we had challenged him to read 3 Nephi 11, and when we got to the appointment he had done his homework. He not only did his homework though he practically had the whole chapter memorized, and when he prayed he felt a huge desire to learn more, and really felt the spirit. We were planning on teaching him lesson 3, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then challenging him for baptism. I felt the spirit strongly to just challenge him immediately after hearing his experience. He accepted immediately, and it was just an awesome lesson. He is way excited too. He is a reference from a member, and it is just amazing how much more effective the work is when you have the help of members. Well in the office everything is going great. This week was a little less stressful in the office, and everything went pretty smoothly. I just couldn’t be happier to be in the Lords work.
Thanks for everything, and I just love hearing how everyone back home is doing. Thanks for all of your prayers, I really appreciate them so much Keep up the good work, and I’ll talk to you soon. Nos Vemos!!
Love, Elder Lee The pictures are of our fútbol team :)