24 October 2009--Hola Todos!!

Well it was an awesome week! Andres was baptized Saturday, and confirmed on Sunday, and he is just as excited as ever. He is 18, and he wants to go on a mission. I am just way excited for him. Then we have the familia Delgado that are amazing. We have been teaching them for about 2 weeks. The Mom has already accepted a baptismal date for the second week of November. We are also teaching her 2 kids, her brother, and sister. Her son of 13 years has come to church twice, and he wants to be baptized too. We actually have challenged the whole family for baptism, but the hna Jenny and Davie aren’t too sure yet. They are reading the Book of Mormon and really love reading it, and have felt the spirit, the problem is they participated in a church called Nazerenos, and had a bad experience entering to quickly into that church. So they want to be sure, it is really going to help when they come to church tomorrow. You can tell it makes a big difference because The Hna Jeannette and Anthony that have come to church already want to be baptized. It is going to help strengthen their testimonies about the truth of the church; we just got to get them there. So we are really excited about how things are going right now.
Things in the office are going good. It was a really busy week, and it feels great to just have a little time to relax. I got all of the reconciliations from the zone leaders this week, and I have been reviewing all of their expenses for the last month to figure out how much money they are going to need. I pretty much have them already to do the payment Wednesday though. President talked to me yesterday, and I’m preparing a report of how much money we have to spend for the rest of the year in each account. So there is always a ton to do, but you gotta love it. It’s amazing how busy it gets, but the time really flies. In the afternoon it is so nice to just get out of the office and teach. I think it’s a good stress reliever  My companion has had quite a bit to do, so I have been helping him out too. He has to do all of the records for the mission, so sometimes he has me type in the information while he is preparing other reports or something. He has been having some problems, and they are thinking about sending him to his house early. He has a disease called Chrom that is like thousands of ulcers in his intestines or something, and he has to have a treatment that costs quite a bit every six weeks. They usually don’t let people with this disease serve missions because you can’t get better if you have stress, and he is pretty stressed. So we are praying hard for him that everything will turn out well, the will of the Lord. We are enjoying the time we have though, that’s the good thing.
We played soccer for about an hour and a half today, and it was a blast. We have a pretty good group of soccer players right now. It is really going to be sad when Elder Wilding and Elder Becerra leave. We get some pretty good soccer in with these guys. I’m still getting the runs in too. Yesterday I put down a 2 miler in about 11:16 after doing my pushups and everything, so I’m feeling pretty good right now. Oh and Elder Wilding and I set our best record walking from the office to the pension. We walked it in 7:26! I never thought it could hurt so bad to walk hard, but holy cow. That is definitely the fastest I have ever walked in my life. Its pretty funny though, because I think people get a kick out of two Gringos in church cloths walking as hard as they can. Its definitely a good time though. That’s another thing I’m going to miss walking hard to the pension. Elder Wilding is going in three weeks. Well the food is amazing as always, we even at tacos yesterday, we seriously have the best pensionista in the world. She is awesome. Mom, she and her mom even complimented me because my plate is always completely clean. I’m going to eat every single thing you give me, and you can hold me to that. I just feel bad for being so picky before, I really missed out on some good food 
Well thanks for everything, and I love you all. Its always great to hear how well everyone is doing at home. Keep up the good work in Swimming Andrew and Steph, it sounds like they are killing you in practice, and that is always good to hear. Allison, sounds like you might be going overseas again, traveling the world so early, you are lucky. Keep up the good work. Jen sounds like you have been having some pretty sweet concerts; I’m really looking forward to hearing you play. Dad, hope everything is going awesome at work, sounds like your loving the new job. Mom, good work with your class too, I really don’t know how you have so much patience, but its awesome. Thanks for everything. Talk to you next week. ¡Hasta Luego!

Elder Lee


The pictures are of the baptism of Andres.