We'll i'm here in paradise aka "Puerto Rico"! I made it safe and sound and the plane that we took was one of those little planes with the propelers on the wings and you have to walk out on the run way because the planes not big enough to reach the little tunnel thingy...
Anyway my Mission President and his Wife Hermana Martineau are great. I feel like i'm just at home with them. Their spoiling us with some great food at their house but in the morining i'm going to have to fend for myself out in the El Campo,(the mission field).
Well i just got time enough to e-mail you this and let you know all is well. Oh yeah and my p-day is on mondays and my mailing address for my whole mission is:
Elder Bret Lopez
Puerto Rico San Juan West Mission
Urb. Jardines de Caparra
500 Calle Marginal Norte
Bayamon, PR 00959
I love you all!
Elder Lopez
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Last week in the CCM (email dated 09/25/2008)
Well this is going to be my last email from the CCM. I cant believe my time is done here and now i get to go out into the world and preach the Gospel to the people of Puerto Rico! Its going to be such a great experience for the next two years. I'm really feeling ansy to be able to get out of this place... I mean dont get me wrong i love the people here and all the teachers are great! But being in one building and and only using one floor of that building for six weeks is starting to get to me. i want to get out there into the world and walk around. At least on Mondays here they'd give us a little taste of what the outside world is like by letting us go to the University.
This week was our last week going to the University actually, because next week we'll be getting ready to leave for tuesday morning. The proselyting went really well though, and we ended on our best time yet. We just went this time and bore short but sincere testimonies to as many people as we could. It went way good, we actually were able to talk to 35 people and recieved 35 phone numbers. Yeah i was shocked when we got back to the class room and started to count up our numbers. It really didnt even seem like we did that much. The best part about it was that when we were leaving to go back to the CCM we ran into one of the guys that we had talked to the previews week! He rocognized us and was excited to see us. He wanted to meet with us agian next week but we're going to be gone, but he gave us his number again anyway. Latter that day i talked to one of my teachers here Hermano Mediovilla and he said he'd give him a call for us since we're not going to be here. I felt good about the whole thing and know he's in good hands with Hermano Mediovilla. I pray that all goes well with him and he's able to recieve the gospel!
This sunday we were able to watch a movie for our fireside. We watched the Testament which is a great movie! There was a part that i actually had to cover my companions eyes because the kiss for one second. Yeah i know i'm a good comp. just looking out for his best interest. We dont need to bother looking or even thinking of that stuff our here on the Lords time.
Anyway not much else happened this week. Just the usual sit in class try and learn/speak spanish. The spanish is actually getting a little bit better. I'm still about 4 or 5 months away from being able to have a good conversation with anyone but its coming none the less. Some things just take time...
So How's everyting back home? I love getting all your emails and letters. Ryan i was happy to read that your still palying ball and crushing Bombs on High School size fields. By the time i get home your going to have teach me how to hit again. Cory i hear your just bulldozing through kids in football. You might have to start taking it easy on them a little.( on 2nd thought, no dont do that. Keep it up!). Jessi you need to keep an eye on your two brothers and keep them in line k! Skyler i hear your doing great at football too. Keep up the hard work buddy. Sierra & Brooklyn I hear you 2 are dancing now. I miss dancing with you two and Jessi to the High School Musical CD. Its alright though time will fly by and we'll be back to dancing before to long. I hope your taking good care of your little sister Kelly too. And Andrew I hope your taking good care of your little sister, Hayle down in ST. George! I love you bud, and dont beat to many kids in games at P.E. ok. We'll I'm running out of time so i got to sign off... I love you all and thank you all for your emails!!!!! Next time i write it will be from the Beautifull Island of Puerto Rico!!!
With Love,
Elder Lopez
This week was our last week going to the University actually, because next week we'll be getting ready to leave for tuesday morning. The proselyting went really well though, and we ended on our best time yet. We just went this time and bore short but sincere testimonies to as many people as we could. It went way good, we actually were able to talk to 35 people and recieved 35 phone numbers. Yeah i was shocked when we got back to the class room and started to count up our numbers. It really didnt even seem like we did that much. The best part about it was that when we were leaving to go back to the CCM we ran into one of the guys that we had talked to the previews week! He rocognized us and was excited to see us. He wanted to meet with us agian next week but we're going to be gone, but he gave us his number again anyway. Latter that day i talked to one of my teachers here Hermano Mediovilla and he said he'd give him a call for us since we're not going to be here. I felt good about the whole thing and know he's in good hands with Hermano Mediovilla. I pray that all goes well with him and he's able to recieve the gospel!
This sunday we were able to watch a movie for our fireside. We watched the Testament which is a great movie! There was a part that i actually had to cover my companions eyes because the kiss for one second. Yeah i know i'm a good comp. just looking out for his best interest. We dont need to bother looking or even thinking of that stuff our here on the Lords time.
Anyway not much else happened this week. Just the usual sit in class try and learn/speak spanish. The spanish is actually getting a little bit better. I'm still about 4 or 5 months away from being able to have a good conversation with anyone but its coming none the less. Some things just take time...
So How's everyting back home? I love getting all your emails and letters. Ryan i was happy to read that your still palying ball and crushing Bombs on High School size fields. By the time i get home your going to have teach me how to hit again. Cory i hear your just bulldozing through kids in football. You might have to start taking it easy on them a little.( on 2nd thought, no dont do that. Keep it up!). Jessi you need to keep an eye on your two brothers and keep them in line k! Skyler i hear your doing great at football too. Keep up the hard work buddy. Sierra & Brooklyn I hear you 2 are dancing now. I miss dancing with you two and Jessi to the High School Musical CD. Its alright though time will fly by and we'll be back to dancing before to long. I hope your taking good care of your little sister Kelly too. And Andrew I hope your taking good care of your little sister, Hayle down in ST. George! I love you bud, and dont beat to many kids in games at P.E. ok. We'll I'm running out of time so i got to sign off... I love you all and thank you all for your emails!!!!! Next time i write it will be from the Beautifull Island of Puerto Rico!!!
With Love,
Elder Lopez
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
And the work goes on (email dated 09/18/2008)
All in all it was a good week. But honostly when isn't there a good week out here in the mission field. Elder Sellers wanted to get up at 5:50 am to read our e-mails so right now back home its about 4 in the morning. Mom i bet your up, but as for everyone else i'm sure your sound asleep.
The weather here hasent changed one bit. We dont have the trees that change nice pretty colors here, but we do have some really pretty palm trees around the temple grouds. We went on a little walk during one of our breaks around the temple and saw like 50 little lizzards running around. It was pretty neet. I loved to watch them change colors for whatever back ground they were in.
Anyway we get to go to the Temple today which i'm way stoked for! the Temple is like a fresh breath of air every time we get to go. This week i was able to play catch during gym for a little with one of the Elders here. He's from North Carolina and brought his glove. i think i might have told you a little about it in my last letter. It felt really good to get out there and to throw the ball around for a bit. The arm feels good. at least it did for the little bit i threw. Mostly for Gym i either play basketball which is fun. the only down part is with all the humididy outside i have to go in and shower after cuz i sweat so much. Its all good though its a good work out. I'm still the same size and weight as when i came in. We'll have to see how that keeps up for the rest of these two years.
We got a new hermana in our district this week, actually two. One of them just flew in from the states last night. she only had a week in the states before she had to come out here becaust Hermana Etwaroo came straight here to the DR MTC because here country Guyana wasnt gettting any visas to go to the US. She's been having a rough week especially because she just got thrown into a country were she doesnt really understand anything thats going on. It will be good that she has a companion thats in the same boat as here now.
Last saturday and monday we were able to go to the University to prosolyte. Its getting better every time we go. When we went on Saturday i just decided i was going to talk with as many people as possible and we were able to get 34 contacts and 26 referals. Thats by far the best we had ever done. We would just go up to anyone and everyone. there was this one time when there was a group of like 5 or 6 people and one of them was looking at us so i just went up and starting talking t o her and we ended up just talking with them all at once. it was great.
We went again to the Universtiy on monday and we didnt get as many references but thats because when we would talk to people it was for a long time. We ran into this one member with all of her friends. We introduced ourselves and found out that they all were learning English. so they wanted to talk with us in english. That was pretty neet but we decided to make a deal with them. I told them we'd work on our spanish with them and they could work on our English with us. so thats what we did. It Went so good. We gave them our little message on one of the comandment to read the scriptures and to always be obediant to the lords will and stuff and they were all interested. it was a dream come true and then we just let them ask there questions in English as best they could, it was great. We were able to answer all there questions. We both bore testimony to them in Spanish and in English, we even had the one member t hat was there bear here testimony to them in english. It was great! I Was on cloud 9 the whole time! I could feel the spirit and i knew they could to. As we were teaching like 2 or 3 other people came to listen to us and hear what we had to say and aked questions. After about 20 or 30 min we gave them all commitment to go to church this sunday with there friend that was a member. I hope at least one of them goes. We gave them all little pamphlets about the church and got all there numbers for the missionary's! It was a great experience.
On Tuesday we had a General Authority come and speak with us who's name was Elder Johnson from the Seventy. It was really good. the only down part is that it was all in Spanish... Its alright though i'll get used to it on the Lords time. I was actually happy with all that i could understand. For the most part it was just the natives that were involved in the lesson but i think i followed pretty well for only haveing been learning this language for a month and half. So that was really good and i got some good notes on how to become a better missionary. we were able to watch the Joseph Smith movie to which is a definate tear jurker... I love that movie and the spirit is so strong when we watch it.
Well my time is winding down so remember i Love all of you back home!
And to answer Skyler, Sierra, and Brooklyn's questions. I'm in the Dominican Republic right now learning how to speak Spanish. I'm teaching people in Spanish about the Church. I wont be back for a couple of years but thats alright cuz the time will fly by. Just remember i love you all and think about you and pray for you every night! I love you guys!
With LOVE, Elder Lopez
PS. Mom and Dad, behaive yourselves on your little trip to San Diego!
The weather here hasent changed one bit. We dont have the trees that change nice pretty colors here, but we do have some really pretty palm trees around the temple grouds. We went on a little walk during one of our breaks around the temple and saw like 50 little lizzards running around. It was pretty neet. I loved to watch them change colors for whatever back ground they were in.
Anyway we get to go to the Temple today which i'm way stoked for! the Temple is like a fresh breath of air every time we get to go. This week i was able to play catch during gym for a little with one of the Elders here. He's from North Carolina and brought his glove. i think i might have told you a little about it in my last letter. It felt really good to get out there and to throw the ball around for a bit. The arm feels good. at least it did for the little bit i threw. Mostly for Gym i either play basketball which is fun. the only down part is with all the humididy outside i have to go in and shower after cuz i sweat so much. Its all good though its a good work out. I'm still the same size and weight as when i came in. We'll have to see how that keeps up for the rest of these two years.
We got a new hermana in our district this week, actually two. One of them just flew in from the states last night. she only had a week in the states before she had to come out here becaust Hermana Etwaroo came straight here to the DR MTC because here country Guyana wasnt gettting any visas to go to the US. She's been having a rough week especially because she just got thrown into a country were she doesnt really understand anything thats going on. It will be good that she has a companion thats in the same boat as here now.
Last saturday and monday we were able to go to the University to prosolyte. Its getting better every time we go. When we went on Saturday i just decided i was going to talk with as many people as possible and we were able to get 34 contacts and 26 referals. Thats by far the best we had ever done. We would just go up to anyone and everyone. there was this one time when there was a group of like 5 or 6 people and one of them was looking at us so i just went up and starting talking t o her and we ended up just talking with them all at once. it was great.
We went again to the Universtiy on monday and we didnt get as many references but thats because when we would talk to people it was for a long time. We ran into this one member with all of her friends. We introduced ourselves and found out that they all were learning English. so they wanted to talk with us in english. That was pretty neet but we decided to make a deal with them. I told them we'd work on our spanish with them and they could work on our English with us. so thats what we did. It Went so good. We gave them our little message on one of the comandment to read the scriptures and to always be obediant to the lords will and stuff and they were all interested. it was a dream come true and then we just let them ask there questions in English as best they could, it was great. We were able to answer all there questions. We both bore testimony to them in Spanish and in English, we even had the one member t hat was there bear here testimony to them in english. It was great! I Was on cloud 9 the whole time! I could feel the spirit and i knew they could to. As we were teaching like 2 or 3 other people came to listen to us and hear what we had to say and aked questions. After about 20 or 30 min we gave them all commitment to go to church this sunday with there friend that was a member. I hope at least one of them goes. We gave them all little pamphlets about the church and got all there numbers for the missionary's! It was a great experience.
On Tuesday we had a General Authority come and speak with us who's name was Elder Johnson from the Seventy. It was really good. the only down part is that it was all in Spanish... Its alright though i'll get used to it on the Lords time. I was actually happy with all that i could understand. For the most part it was just the natives that were involved in the lesson but i think i followed pretty well for only haveing been learning this language for a month and half. So that was really good and i got some good notes on how to become a better missionary. we were able to watch the Joseph Smith movie to which is a definate tear jurker... I love that movie and the spirit is so strong when we watch it.
Well my time is winding down so remember i Love all of you back home!
And to answer Skyler, Sierra, and Brooklyn's questions. I'm in the Dominican Republic right now learning how to speak Spanish. I'm teaching people in Spanish about the Church. I wont be back for a couple of years but thats alright cuz the time will fly by. Just remember i love you all and think about you and pray for you every night! I love you guys!
With LOVE, Elder Lopez
PS. Mom and Dad, behaive yourselves on your little trip to San Diego!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Pictures from the SLC airport
I just got these fun pictures from Bret's Aunt Francie! These pictures are when Bret coincidentally ran into his brother-in-law, cousins, and his Aunt Francie at the SLC airport- on his way to the Dominican Republic MTC. Enjoy!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Another week down (email dated 09/11/2008)
Another week down here in the CCM. It was that much of an exciting week, just a lot of sitting in clase and eating and then sitting in clase some more. Lets get the fist thing taking care of first, Happy Birthday Mark and Lachelle, (i know Lachelle's was awhile back so i apologize). I'm alittle jelouse of that cake you got mark. It looked pretty scrumpshis... the strawberries looked heavenly!
Any way Dad you need to get the blue tooth instaled in my car so you dont have to bother with the phone next time and can be aware of things around you.... Ha i love you Pops!
It was pretty neet to be ablet to see pic's from back home that mark sent. I was lucky enough that the computer i'm using let me look at the pic's. I got my first letter from dad this week. it was from aug 24. i believe is the date that you sent it. It was good to be able to read a letter again.
The weather here hasent changed it still rains every day. but now its starting to thunder and lightening. Its actually really sweet to just sit and watched the rain and lightening at night time. This past sunday we ate ice cream out under the canopy before we had to go back to our rooms for the night and just watched the lightening light up the entire sky! the thunder afterwards was pretty cool to, it was a rolling thunder for sure. the thunder would last for like a whole min. it seemed like.
I went to the distribution center here to see if i could get some new G's except they didn't have the kind i wanted so Mom if you could get me some dirlux garmets when i go over to Puerto rico and send them there it would be great!!! oh yeah and i left those bottoms that i wore for baseball games in my room if you could send those that would be great too. also with the garments on the tops if you could get some crew necks and some low necks that would be cool i want to try some of the low ones for a change.
Well i only have 3 more weeks here in the CCM and than there throwing us out. i got to get my butt in to gear it seems like. theres still so much more i want to know before i leave this place. Yesterday night we got some new roomates from Nicoragua and El Salvador. Yup you guessed it they only speak spanish. they seem like really good Elders. the speaking with each other its sort of limited right know though. Their both going to San Juan West with me though. Their names are Elder Bladon and Elder Rivera.
Since we werent able to go to the University this past week cuz the rain we did a lot of staying in side. I got to play a lot of ping pong though! I finally played Hermano Ruiz who was supposed to be way good, but i beat him 21 to 14, he wants a rematch and i told him i'd love another game. Anyway i found another Elder down here who plays baseball and brought his glove with him. We decided we're going to go out and play catch today! i'm so stoked for that! Its been forever since i've thrown a real baseball!
I got a Dear Elder from Anderw and Steph. and want to say thanks for that. I Even got an E-mail from Trudy! ha i loved reading about Brooklyn, shes so cute! Thanks for that! and the Halford Fam. i love to read your emails too! I'm lucky to have the best Family and Best 2ND Family in the entire World!!!!!Oh yeah one more thing Skyler Halford behave yourself up there at Utah State.... I got eyes and ears all over the place... Well i only have 2 min left so i got to rap it up! Remember i know with all my heart that this church is true and i love this work, especially when i finally learn the language.Much Love and until next week ,God Bless
Love Elder Lopez
Any way Dad you need to get the blue tooth instaled in my car so you dont have to bother with the phone next time and can be aware of things around you.... Ha i love you Pops!
It was pretty neet to be ablet to see pic's from back home that mark sent. I was lucky enough that the computer i'm using let me look at the pic's. I got my first letter from dad this week. it was from aug 24. i believe is the date that you sent it. It was good to be able to read a letter again.
The weather here hasent changed it still rains every day. but now its starting to thunder and lightening. Its actually really sweet to just sit and watched the rain and lightening at night time. This past sunday we ate ice cream out under the canopy before we had to go back to our rooms for the night and just watched the lightening light up the entire sky! the thunder afterwards was pretty cool to, it was a rolling thunder for sure. the thunder would last for like a whole min. it seemed like.
I went to the distribution center here to see if i could get some new G's except they didn't have the kind i wanted so Mom if you could get me some dirlux garmets when i go over to Puerto rico and send them there it would be great!!! oh yeah and i left those bottoms that i wore for baseball games in my room if you could send those that would be great too. also with the garments on the tops if you could get some crew necks and some low necks that would be cool i want to try some of the low ones for a change.
Well i only have 3 more weeks here in the CCM and than there throwing us out. i got to get my butt in to gear it seems like. theres still so much more i want to know before i leave this place. Yesterday night we got some new roomates from Nicoragua and El Salvador. Yup you guessed it they only speak spanish. they seem like really good Elders. the speaking with each other its sort of limited right know though. Their both going to San Juan West with me though. Their names are Elder Bladon and Elder Rivera.
Since we werent able to go to the University this past week cuz the rain we did a lot of staying in side. I got to play a lot of ping pong though! I finally played Hermano Ruiz who was supposed to be way good, but i beat him 21 to 14, he wants a rematch and i told him i'd love another game. Anyway i found another Elder down here who plays baseball and brought his glove with him. We decided we're going to go out and play catch today! i'm so stoked for that! Its been forever since i've thrown a real baseball!
I got a Dear Elder from Anderw and Steph. and want to say thanks for that. I Even got an E-mail from Trudy! ha i loved reading about Brooklyn, shes so cute! Thanks for that! and the Halford Fam. i love to read your emails too! I'm lucky to have the best Family and Best 2ND Family in the entire World!!!!!Oh yeah one more thing Skyler Halford behave yourself up there at Utah State.... I got eyes and ears all over the place... Well i only have 2 min left so i got to rap it up! Remember i know with all my heart that this church is true and i love this work, especially when i finally learn the language.Much Love and until next week ,God Bless
Love Elder Lopez
Thursday, September 4, 2008
New pictures
Here are some new pictures, complete w/captions, Bret sent me. Enjoy!
It was a long trip to the DR
Elder Carter and me back in Provo. (He plays baseball too!)
Whooping up on another mish with my light-saber
My old district back in Provo
My Missionary name tag
It was a long trip to the DR
Playing some good old ping pong
Me and my comp looking good at the museum
A pic of me holding out the Book of Mormon for the whole world to see
The Picture of the 6 is my new district here in The DR and the temple in the background
The Picture with just the four is me, Elder Sellers, Slade and Twitchell. We're all going to Puerto Rico.
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Our MTC here in the DR. We only use the top floor.
The DR...what a place! (email dated 09/04/2008)
Well another day down. Its a pretty crazy place out here in the DR. The weather is sort of on and off. It was really nice for most of the week and then all of the sudden it got way windy and rainny. Dont worry though its not a Hurricane though. I hurd that Haiti got hit pretty bad by a hurricane though but it was on the north side of the island and i'm down on the south. Its wierd to me how it can be poring rain and way windy and yet when i walk out side its way hot and i can just feel the humidity.
Thanks so much for the emails. the Emails are all i'm getting right now. i still haven't recieved one actual letter here yet. Sorry mom, but the scanning dads letters in didnt work, i cant open them on these computers here in the lab. It was a good thought though. looks like dad just needs to learn how to type good finaly. ha how's he doing in keeping up with little andrew?
Anyway, its official now, i've been out on my mission for over a month. Ha i know its not much of a mark but it seems like a mile stone to me right now. i cant believe i havent seen anyone for over a month now. (Except for at the airport.. ha what are the chances i'd run into cousins a brother in law and my aunt)
We were able to go to the University here which is only a couple of blocks a way. Its nice to get out of this compound every once and a while and see the out side world. In here all our classes are on the top floor and all our rooms are on the top floor. I cant remember if i told you that its just me and Elder Sellers in a room right now and then in a couple of weeks the Natives come in and we get two natives that will room with us. I hope that helps with the spanish. Anyway back to the University. We were able to go twice this week. It was a little scary to know that i was going to actually be prosolyting to real people out in the street. We walked the couple of blocks over to the University and than they sent us loose to go and preach the good word. The first day we went which was last satruday we just had to get up the courage to talk to people which we did. i was the one that usually would stop people and start up the the conversation and than they would start talking and things would go down hill from there. they talk super fast here i decided. Anyway the day went on and we were able to talk with 11 people and get 7 addresses. I thought that was a way good number and was stoked about it. But than we got back to clase and Hermano Orozco was like thats nothing you can do better. So we went again on the next Monday and we were determind to do better. this time we were able to talk with people longer, sort of. Luckly for the most part all the people here are way friendly. they love to talk! On Monday we were able to up out numbers in the prosolyting stats.. hah we got 23 contacts and 12 addresses which was a lot better than the first time we went. (Hey dad that over .500) Any way on Monday we sat down and talked with this guy that was catholic and his brother was a member of our church i guess. He was way friendly and helped us out with our spanish and we tried to answer his questions the best we could. Its was a way good experience. He asked us about our temple and how not every one is aloud to go into it. Then he said how back in the Christ day everyone was aloud in the Temple which isnt true.( I didnt know that ) But than my Genius comp new that wasnt true and it was actually on Jews that were aloud in the temple in christs day. anyway the conversation went really well because he spoke a little bit of english and we challenged him to read 3 Nephi 11. it was really good and i hope he does read that chapter and prays about it like i told him to. When we were walking back to the compound i was so pumped cuz we actually talked to real people in spanish for the most part...
oh yeah and just to let you know my Boy Sky up at Utah State, they have a ping-pong table here and i have yet to lose... I'm still looking forward to recieving that first letter maybe it will come this week...Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Lopez
Thanks so much for the emails. the Emails are all i'm getting right now. i still haven't recieved one actual letter here yet. Sorry mom, but the scanning dads letters in didnt work, i cant open them on these computers here in the lab. It was a good thought though. looks like dad just needs to learn how to type good finaly. ha how's he doing in keeping up with little andrew?
Anyway, its official now, i've been out on my mission for over a month. Ha i know its not much of a mark but it seems like a mile stone to me right now. i cant believe i havent seen anyone for over a month now. (Except for at the airport.. ha what are the chances i'd run into cousins a brother in law and my aunt)
We were able to go to the University here which is only a couple of blocks a way. Its nice to get out of this compound every once and a while and see the out side world. In here all our classes are on the top floor and all our rooms are on the top floor. I cant remember if i told you that its just me and Elder Sellers in a room right now and then in a couple of weeks the Natives come in and we get two natives that will room with us. I hope that helps with the spanish. Anyway back to the University. We were able to go twice this week. It was a little scary to know that i was going to actually be prosolyting to real people out in the street. We walked the couple of blocks over to the University and than they sent us loose to go and preach the good word. The first day we went which was last satruday we just had to get up the courage to talk to people which we did. i was the one that usually would stop people and start up the the conversation and than they would start talking and things would go down hill from there. they talk super fast here i decided. Anyway the day went on and we were able to talk with 11 people and get 7 addresses. I thought that was a way good number and was stoked about it. But than we got back to clase and Hermano Orozco was like thats nothing you can do better. So we went again on the next Monday and we were determind to do better. this time we were able to talk with people longer, sort of. Luckly for the most part all the people here are way friendly. they love to talk! On Monday we were able to up out numbers in the prosolyting stats.. hah we got 23 contacts and 12 addresses which was a lot better than the first time we went. (Hey dad that over .500) Any way on Monday we sat down and talked with this guy that was catholic and his brother was a member of our church i guess. He was way friendly and helped us out with our spanish and we tried to answer his questions the best we could. Its was a way good experience. He asked us about our temple and how not every one is aloud to go into it. Then he said how back in the Christ day everyone was aloud in the Temple which isnt true.( I didnt know that ) But than my Genius comp new that wasnt true and it was actually on Jews that were aloud in the temple in christs day. anyway the conversation went really well because he spoke a little bit of english and we challenged him to read 3 Nephi 11. it was really good and i hope he does read that chapter and prays about it like i told him to. When we were walking back to the compound i was so pumped cuz we actually talked to real people in spanish for the most part...
oh yeah and just to let you know my Boy Sky up at Utah State, they have a ping-pong table here and i have yet to lose... I'm still looking forward to recieving that first letter maybe it will come this week...Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Lopez
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