March 5 2012

Hello my big wonderful family!!

What to say about this week not a ton happened it was kind of a really boring week! So I did talk to the Mission President about my companion and he talked to him! So Tuesday we had a zones conference in the mission office! It was really good we left our house at 7 in the morning and we didn’t even get back till like 6 at night so it was really long but it was really good! That is where I received Colton’s mom’s package and some letters from grandpa! Her package came at a perfect time! I ate pop tarts for breakfast every day this week with beef jerky! Hahahah stuff you eat as a missionary! After president talked to him he was a little bit of a girl and I felt a little bad because I narked on him! So Wednesday as we were working out (the first time he has worked out) I told him hey bro sorry that the President talked to you it just really bugged me that we wasted a whole day watching movies! He was like it is alright don’t worry about it I needed that! So we really worked hard this week! Wednesday through Friday was just alright not a lot of things happened just made contacts, taught lessons! Saturday was pretty good because we have a family in a ward that has kids that invited there friends over for family night that night and had us teach them and they will probably be baptized next week! I love it when members are like hey I got a buddy that is not a member do you want to talk to him? Our answer is always yes! Sunday was pretty funny we had to go to the ward council meeting it was a joke they are so unorganized here like everyone talks at one time they talked about one thing for a half hour it was ridiculous and it was about how to make the hall ways more clear after sacrament meeting! Ya it was funny I almost started laughing because they could not decide on what to do! then we found this lady named Diva last week and we visited her Sunday and she received her answer about the book of Mormon but when we were talking to her and her son she unleashed on us she is like I don’t believe in your church because I am catholic and I teach kids at a catholic school and I am a catholic minster but you guys have made me confused on what is correct! Ya score one for the missionaries making a minster confused if their religion is true hahahaha! That was so funny because like the whole lesson she kept telling us that we made her confused and at the end I invited for baptism and she said yes! hahahahaha so funny! Ok so that is about it for this week! Not a ton of stuff happened! K stuff I need you to keep a look out for mom! So my Nike running shoes are getting hammered there about to have holes in them because we play soccer down here and we play on cement because they don’t have nice grass fields like what we do in the United States! So I need some like indoor soccer shoes! I can buy them here but they are like 95 to 100 reais and that is a little bit expensive! So I don’t know what to do about that let me know what you think! Oh I will get my package ah probably this Friday or next Monday! My zone leaders have it but we will see when I will get it from them! I love and I miss you guys I am sorry that you guys were sick this week that is not fun! I hope next week goes better for you guys! Love you guys take care!

Love

Elder Gray