30 January 2009--Oooohhh Yeeeaahhh

Hey Family,
It sounds like it was a good week at home.  Swim season is coming to an end.  That’s way cool that Andrew is going to state too, and Steph I hope you can be there too.  Its killer when you get sick at the end of the season.  You guys had some awesome times at region though.  Its good to hear that all of your hard work this season is paying off.  Hope everyone is getting over there sicknesses too.  I’m lucky down here in Lima because it is really hot right now so I don’t have to worry about getting sick.  I’m just feeling great right now.  Elder Parsons and I have gone running like 15 days in a row, not counting Sundays, so it is feeling great.  I’ve set a few goals for 10 laps, and running every day I’m getting closer and closer to getting them.  It is amazing what you can do when you set goals and just concentrate on your goal.  Goals are necessary in missionary work and every other part of our lives.  If we put the goal it is much easier to improve.  I have found that in pretty much every aspect of my life. 

    The payment in iMOS went great.  I don’t like paying in iMOS very much because we enter the payment in Soles and then in the cards they change the money to dollars, and then the missionaries take it out in Soles.  So in all of those changes we are losing money.  In MOS I entered the payments in dollars so it didn’t go through so many changes, and it really saved money.  Its sad they got rid of the other system though, I’m just trying to figure out a way we can make that better without having to change the money.  Everybody got their money though, and I haven’t had any mad missionaries calling me this month, and that is always a relief  
The work is going awesome.  We have the hna Jeannette’s baptism tomorrow, and she is so happy to finally be baptized.  She is faithful in church every week, and she really loves being there.  She wants her family to follow too, but they are a little harder to get to come to church.  Her son Anthony is awesome though.  He was baptized in November, and he has his first talk in sacrament meeting this Sunday.  He had it all prepared, and he is really just a good kid, and future missionary for sure.  We also taught Jorge this week, and he is probably the best convert I have ever seen.  He is going to receive the Holy Ghost tomorrow, but I can’t believe how fast he is progressing.  When we taught him Wednesday, he had about 10 scriptures to share with us that he had been studying.  One of the members game him Preach My Gospel, and he is studying like crazy.  Sunday when we said he was going to be in the mission in a year, he told us, “Hopefully much sooner than a year!”  You don’t know how happy I was to hear that.  He really can’t wait to get out in the field.  He wants to go around proselyting with us too.  Its great.  We also received a reference last Sunday of a lady from Canada and her husband from Peru.  We went and taught them, and they are really ready for the gospel.  Its cool because I think this is the first time that I’ve been able to actually teach lessons in English in the mission.  Its kind of hard sometimes because I forget words at times, but it turns out ok.  She understands a little Spanish too, so we teach in Spanish and English.  Its really way cool.  We are going to challenge them for this month.  She even said I want my son to be like you guys, LDS.  Its weird to hear LDS because everyone here says SUD, but we are way excited for them too.  The members are really giving us a ton of references, and that’s the way it should be.  We are just loving the work, and are really being blessed right now.  Thanks for all of your prayers, and know that I’m always praying for you.  We’ll talk to you next week. 
Love,
Elder Lee

Oh and for school I’m not sure what I’m going to do.  SUU starts on the 23rd, but I guess our leaving date is the 31st.  So I’m thinking about going home a week early.  It makes me sad to do it, but I don’t know what other option that I have.  If you guys have any advice for me on this topic let me know.  I don’t know if I could go a week late, we’ll just have to see.  Thanks for everything.  Nos Vemos!