Reporting from Puerto Rico (email dated 4/26/2010)

So this week here on the enchanted island was a week full of work like all of them always are. The good news is that Veronica made it to church which official qualifies her for baptism on the 8th of may! So if all goes according to plans we should be seeing white in the water for mothers day! It should be a cool experience! Also with that good news we came across a good potential investigator from a member. The member has been in active for a while but has family in the church that is helping him find excitment to come back to church. He's come to church 3 weeks in a row and this last week we were able to talk with him about teaching his girl friend the lessons. From there we found out that their planing on getting married this next month and also she's interested in the lessons and even in baptism. She came to church last week but we weren't able to see her in the week because she got sick and has been in the hospital for a week now. She has something wrong with here white blood cells i believe is what she told us. So yesterday after church we went with Jiodannie, the boy friend, to the hospital to visit her, Grisel, and Elder Moran and i gave here a blessing of health. It was a good growing experience and it was Elder Morans first time in giving a blessing which was cool for him. He did a great job and i felt like Grisel received the blessing really well and will be getting better this week. She said as soon as she gets out she's going to have us over and she's going to cook for us. She's even going to make a dish that's called "mofungo" which is a traditional food here that i like a lot! Its basically mashed up platano with meet inside with a sauce that covers it! basically that's what it is and it tastes great! So we have some excitement for Grisel because i feel like she could be the next baptism here in Vega Baja after Veronica on the 8th.

Also funny story that happened this past week. So Elder Moran and i were going to visit an investigator at there house when we found that she wasn't there... But as we were about to leave we found a big iguana pretty close to our car, so we went to go look at it and he ran away from us. but as he was running away he ran into a chain link fence and couldn't get through it or under it. So as we got closer to him he got more scared and just kept driving his head into the fence trying to get through to run away from us. So seeing how he couldn't go anywhere i got up close to him and grabbed him by the tail and picked him up. So as i held him i realized how big the guy really was! His tail was huge and when we measured him from the tip of his tail to his head he was almost as tall as me! Then as we were going to take pictures we realized that neither of us had our cameras, so not wanting to let this moment pass by with out a picture we put him in the trunk of the car and took him home with us to be able to take pictures of him! We named him Luisito and after the pictures we let him go again in the jungle! It was a funny experience, especial because it was Elder Morans first time ever to hold an iguana and he was pretty scared to grab the guy. But he over came his fear with time and finally held him in his own arms. Yeah good times here in Puerto Rico!


So that's how last week went, adventurous and full of the teaching the gospel! Got to love the mission life!

Love you all,

Elder Lopez