Jan 24 2011

Hello Hello everybody!  

Well Im extremely happy to learn about my new nephew this week!  Its been a little difficult going through the week supposing that a new member of the family came but not knowing anything for sure!  So ive been telling everybody that supposedly i have a new nephew!  haha.  Yeah but im glad to hear everything went well and that he is a happy healthy sleepy baby!  I think his name should be changed to puppy lol.  But i like Carter its a cool name. 

Well after a really difficult week last week we had a lot of success this week.  Numbers wise it was by far the most successful week fo the mission. (not counting baptisms).  But we found some awsome people to teach this week.  And some not so awsome people as well.  but yeah its
been a really good week.  I cant complain at all.  This week i have the temple to look forward to.  We are going on thursday and i cant wait. ive been to about twice as manny sessions in spanish as english.  The spanish is improving.  Little by little.  But i can communicate just fine.  Ive lost the fear of opening my mouth.  Im gaining greater confidence to talk with all the people on the streets and stuff and i believe it is for that reason that all our numbers sky rocketed this week.  We are finally gaining the confidence of the bishop because we are teaching his nonmember 25 year old son.  We are gaining more and more confidence from the members too.  We got two references of families that are married last week.  Thats rare here.  The is a huge problem here with people just hooking up and never getting married. The ones who are not married are usually the ones who are more willing to listen.  I`ve been thinking alot about why this is and came to the conclusion that the only reason anybody here gets married is for
religion.  And so the ones who are married therefor are a little more closed off to listening to the missionaries.  But we are finding people so i have hope.  I feel like we are working hard and making a lot more progress than ever before.  Its killing me that i cant be home to see my new member of the family.  And by the time i return home he will be walking and even saying a few words.  Maybe ill be home for the next one.  Well thats about all thats going on here.
Nothing too crazy happened this week.  Just walking and sweating a lot in the heat here.  My companion and i started a diet.  It doesnt work though because every house we enter they have to give us food and its extremely rude to refuse.  Oh well.  Welp thats all for this week.

Elder Hesselgesser