From the Enchanted Island (email dated 4/21/2009)

Well the week to be honest sort of went by a little slow all the way up until this past sunday. We ended up having about 6 lessons on the day and one of those was with a member present which isn't the easiest thing to do here in Utuado. It was a great day, it seemed like every time we would walk out side a couple of minutes later someone would invite us in. Those days are always nice to have. The highlight of all the lessons though was the one that we had with De Jesus family which we had a member come with us to. Going into the lesson we were a little ancy because for some reason or another they didnt show up to church, so we were just praying that they hadn't changed their minds about baptisim or anything. So we got in there and the 3 commandments we were planning a teaching were Pray often, Read the Scriptures daily, and Keep the sabbath day holy. The first two that we went over were studying and praying daily and they excepted those commandments like a chubby kid exceptes cake. They love reading all the chapters that we give them from the Book of Mormon and all the little pamphelts we give them also. Also none of them have any fear of giving prayers in public which is usualy always a problem, but not with this family. So everything was going good and then we got to the commandment of keeping the Sabbath day holy... And... they excepted it like the others! Hopefully now we're going to be starting to see them in church every sunday instead of ever other. The great part about the lesson was having a member there with us to make a friendship in the ward and also to give an extra testimony to strengthen them. Hermano Papo really gave a strong testimony about the blessings of being married (which Rolando and Margie have committed to do) and how attending church has been a blessing in his life. The whole situation and lesson just went very well and i feel as though they are right on track to be baptised this up coming month after they get married!... The only problem is i feel sort of torn, because i'm not 100% sure i'm going to be here next transfer to see them be baptised... but as long as they are baptized I'll be happy! We have a couple of more commandments to teach them, but with the way their progressing right now i think they will go smoothly. Missionary work is absolutly just a great experience.

Well i think i'm going to wrap this one up with that, just now all is well and the work goes on! Elder Lopez