January 9, 2012

Hey Mom and family,

So, the things you asked about I haven´t seen yet. Did you send it in two boxes? If you did, I only have one for now. Maybe tomorrow I´ll get the other one when the Zone Leaders go to Xela.

We share the same are as our Zone Leaders. Even though we have different houses we spent a lot of the holidays together so that it wouldn´t be so lonely. We also spend some P-days in the afternoon together and we play games for a little bit.

In the video, the guy playing the violin is Elder Hales. He´s fairly new. He just finished being trained and is now training. (The way the new training program works is that you are trained for two changes and then you train for two changes in the same area usually) He just began training this last week. He is really good at the violin and he gave me some stuff to look up when I get home, of some concerts and things he´s done. We also like the same kind of music so we´ve enjoyed talking about that too.

The District has changed up quite a bid this week. I now am over Chianlta with Elder Conte and Elder Chicas, Las Rosas with Elder Xovin and Elder Reyes, and lastly Chinacá (which I didn´t have before) with Elder Hales and his kid Elder Cardona.

The work this week seems to be improving. The one family we were teaching canceled our appointment on Thursday and when we went to visit them yesterday they were there and we saw them but the aunt that was there said they were sleeping and couldn´t talk to us. "Lame" (Jessica quote) But Thursday we visited a member family and taught a small lesson, just to keep our practice up with teaching. What we didn´t know was that one of the kids there named Maynor, wasn´t part of the family. We taught about why the Book of Mormon was written and the blessings that come from daily study. We challenged them to study together as a family every day. Afterwards, Maynor asked how much the book of Mormon cost. We responded that it was free. Then he asked us if he could keep the Book of Mormon we gave them while we were reading? (We still didn´t know he wasn´t a part of the family nor a member) We let him keep it of course. There was plenty more in the house. After the lesson, the little girl of the family, who was born with a defect but is very sweet, extremely smart for her age, and a lot more in tune with the spirit, came up to me and whispered in my ear to invite Maynor to church on Sunday. So we asked all the kids, including Maynor, if they were all coming to church on Sunday and after making sure the other son, Chus (his real name is Jesus but they all call him Chus), was going he decided to go too. Yesterday we went up early to accompany them and they were all there already ready to go. Maynor really liked church and we have an appointment to go with him on Tuesday and he´s going to mutual on Wednesday. Even though I hope for more, I´ll be very grateful if he´s the last and only person I get to see accept the gospel between now and the time I go home.

Well, that's about all. Good luck these next 5 weeks. Don´t over-do anything; I don´t want to come home to you in the same condition I left you in.

Love,
Elder Landon James Crapo