So it seems like a very short time since i've sent a letter because last weeks pday was on wednesday. But none the less many things happend in that little span of 5 days. It was a great week in church again seeing how in church we broke the San Nicolas record in attendance on sunday with a big 50 people in our little house of a church. It was awesome to see the place full to the back of the sacrament room. The smile on our branch presidents face was so big that i could see it from a mile away and he still hasn't taken it off till today. We do our laundry at his house and thats all he could talk about. He kept on saying how yesterday was San NIcolas history because they've never made it up to 50 people in church at one time in this little branch. We were happy because we had 4 of our investigators there also which we as missionary's love to see. Its a big jump from my first week here when we only had 17 people there in church.
AnaMilena who is our number one investigator right now even was able to come with her son Fitzgerald. He's the autistic son that i wrote about last time. Fitzgerald did a good job also and sat very calmly for the whole sacrament meeting that we had. Afterward he was a little frustrated though, so Anamilena had to take him home for the last 2 hours. We were just excited that he was able to come for the first time and be good for the first hour. We're hoping that he's able to little by little become acustomed to coming to church and one day be able to sit through the whole entire thing. Anamilena was excited though that he was even able to come and sit good for a full hour of church. We past by that same night to visit her and her husband keith to see what we could do to help Kieth be able to come also for the next week and he simple said i just need to wake up on time. So hopefully next week we have that whole family there. Its been a wonderful time teaching this family and the best part about it is that we're even able to "chapi" her yard, which is basicaly weeding with a hoe. Why do i say thats the best part... because afterward she always makes us this Colombian food called "Arepas". Mmmm good!
Also this past week we had another baseball game with the little kids after our lesson with Andrea, their grandma. We even had the littlest girl who didn't want to play be our anouncer on the side lines and anounce our names when we got up to bat. She really liked anouncing my name "Elder Lopez" when i would step up to bat. The little kids are just a ball of fun to play with. We also taught them to speak english with good words instead of the dirt words some of them had learned from other kids at school. We told them that if we heard any bad words we'd leave and wouldn't be able to play any more, so they all did good after that. Our lesson with Andrea, the grandma, also went well and we're looking forward to seeing her again this week to see if we can help her make it to church which is her big step she needs to make.
So i guess this would be a little interesting fact about what we're going to be doing with our Pday today. We took over an appartment from the sisters and they left it with some bright pink walls and today were going to paint it white to get rid of the pink walls. Elder Ellis and I really think its going to help our work for this next week. I mean its tough having to study the scriptures in a pink appartment. We also took down the Peach shades that they had put up to be able to put up some new shades that a member is making us. So yeah you could say that Elder Ellis and I are really transforming our area completely, even down to the missionary's apartment.
Well my time is running a little low so i'm going to go ahead and wrap this up now...
Chirst lives and loves us and we are very blessed to know His steps, so now lets just follow them. They may at times be hard but there definately worth the trouble to follow. Keep on keepin on back home!
Much love,
Elder Lopez
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