New email system (email dated Feb. 8th, 2010)

Greetings from the Island of Curacao,

So looks like the Mission is starting to upgrade on these email accounts and change their system which changed my email addrss to bret.lopez@myldsmail.net. So it would probably be good to start sending your emails to this account. In the information it says that all the emails that are sent to the other address will automaticaly be sent to the new account so that you dont have to worry to much. But if Lachelle could put that up on the blog that would be cool. Thanks!

In other news from the island of Curacao we saw a great dolphin show last p-day at the sea aquarium. Yeah, dolphins are pretty much an amazing animal i decided after waching them do all of the their jumps and flips out of the water. It took me back to those good old days when Mom and Dad took us to Sea World and we watched the shows there. But this time i didn't sit in the splash section and i realized how amazing the dolphins really are.

Also this week we had a great week of hard work. Pretty much during the week you can count on us getting some good sun rays and a leg work out on those bikes of ours. But at the end of the week its all worth it because you can look back and see the difference you made in the world. What we had to look back at this week was a new member, Marlone who we baptized last week, receive the Priesthood during Elders Quorom on sunday! Yeah i was way happy to see him already getting right before i have to leave with tranfers next week. Its been such a good time watching him progess so much in the Gospel. I think i sort of know now how parents must feel to see their kids accomplish things in their life, its an awesome feeling to say the least. Man do i love this work! Also on sunday night we had a great lesson with our new golden investigator named Duan. He's 21 years old and lives with his family who's from Colombia. He came to church yesterday also which makes him progressing a bunch also. He was a little nervous at first but that is expected for your first visit, but as church went on he got a lot more confidence and started to participate and everything. When we went over that night we were able to feel the spirit tell us he was ready for a baptismal date and we set one with him for the 27th of February! And Yes he did accept it with smile on his face and a lot of desire to make it happen. He's going to be great example for his family in the changes that he's going to start making to make his baptism happen also which we're happy for because they also should be baptised here down the line but they have a little stumbling block in their way. Their little daughter who is 11 is preparing to go through the first communion in the catholic church which is every sunday morning right during church which keeps them from coming to church with us. But their more then happy to bring Duan and drop him off at church with us before they go to their catholic church which is good. Yeah you could say they still dont understand the whole authority of priesthood deal but they will here soon, so some prayers to help them except it would be awesome! Duan understands the authority fairly well but we're still going to have to make it more clear for him but that will come with time. Their doing great though for only having visited them twice... We have a lot of high hopes for them! Unfortunately i'll be leaving next week so i wont be able to see him be baptized, but thats not to important as long as he's baptized on the 27th of February!

So that about wraps up this week from the news here in curacao!

Thank you all for your Love, support, and prayers!

Love always,

Elder Lopez