So Elder Lopez has made it back to the main island and is very excited to get to work! Our flight got in last Wednesday and we went to the mission home first and then from there it was off to my new area with my new companion Elder Moran from Guatamla! Yeah, he's about 5'7 i'd say and probable doesnt weigh more then 150 lbs but has the heart of a giant. These Elders that come from Guatamala are awesome and i'm glade that we're companions. He's still really young in the mission, actually this will be his second transfer in the field making him really new which is great because he's ready to work hard with me here in Vega Baja. Our area is probably one of the biggest in the mission, if not the biggest because we cover a lot of pueblos, not just Vega Baja. the nice part about that is that we have a car and its new one too...yup we're rolling in a 2009 toyota corolla. I'm feeling pretty blessed to say the least. We got up early today just so that we could wash her.
Anyway as for the work here in the area we got a lot of area to cover and some good investigators that are going to progress towards baptism i believe. We have this one guy named Freddy who i think has ADHD but loves the gospel and the BOM and to come to church. He lives way out in the mountains which takes us about 40 min. to get to for our lessons. I guess he was a reference that they had recieved from to office or something. His baptismal date was for this next week end but were going to have to see if we can move it today because he's living with his girl friend and their not married yet. So that is going to put a delay on the work a little, but i'm sure he'll be willing to repent and get married with her. I'll have to write you next week and tell you what happens tonight. He loves coming to church and has read almost up to Alma in the BOM which shows a lot of progress! If he keeps on progressing like he is right now i'm positive he'll be hitting the water of baptism.
Also yesterday we were at church and received a referece of an inactive member to go visit in our area. So we went over there yesterday and found to our happy suprise that the member lives with his wife there and she's not baptized and right now she feels more prepared to be baptized and he wants to come back to church. The whole situation was just really cool. We went over there with our Mission leader of our ward and sat down and taught the 1st lesson with them. As we were teaching we found out that Armando was baptized a while back but went inactive and started to get caught up in the world until last week he had a complete 180 happen in him. He decieded to go to church and from there we got his info from a member. Also his wife has previously heard the lessons from the missionary's but never felt ready to be baptized but as we taught yesterday she told us that now she feels like she's ready to take the step of baptism! So we threw out the goal for her baptismal date this 27th of march thats coming up! Elder Moran and i felt really blessed to have been put in their path to be able to teach them and find a child of God ready to follow His path. All of this and the fact that our appartment is basicaly on the beach made our week here in Puerto Rico a great first week to start the transfer off with!
Well that's the great news from the mission field and i hope all are doing well back home!
Much Love,
Elder Lopez
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