John - August 30, 2010

well hello family,
this week has been pretty good. I mean as far as understanding about half of what they are saying goes. This last saturday i baptised José Luiz, he was one of our investigators that the missionaries had before us. But they never gave him a baptism commitment, so our fist meeting with him we gave him a baptismal date. He acepted and boom there we are. ha it was funny i didn´t know i was baptising him untill the night before. I guess they had said it in spanish to eachother and i must have missed that part. Anyway it went smoothly, i had to do it two times, because i didn´t get his whole left hand under the water. Then that sunday, yesterday he recieved the gift of the holy ghost. it was kinda a little bit of a scare, because he didn´t show up till like 15 minutes till the end of sacrament! but its okay, all is well. So this Saturday i baptised one and our branch president baptised another. So two baptisms.
It is wierd how some days i can understand the conversation that they are having, and then other times i am totally out of it, and not understanding anything. I think it has a lot to do with what they are talking about though. But spanish is coming along, It won´t come to me in a click, but with time. I always say to my comp, con tiempo. Which means with time.
ha dad its funny you should say the things about ¨free meal!¨ because that is not how it is at all here. There aren´t any places that are like that. Oh and i am getting your emails and everything just fine. For breakfast i usually have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then for lunch we go to our cook´s place for some good food. Then usually we don´t eat anything for dinner, because it is a prime time for doing lessons and stuff. so i´m suprised that im not starving here. But things are good. Also so we read a lot of scriptures down here. I don´t know if you have an impression that we don´t read much, because I am learning so much right now!
Mom I´m glad that your knee scope went well, good to hear that things are healing up good. Oh yeah about the package. I would really worry about sending most of that stuff. You can send it, but we don´t have to worry about wet wipes down here our toliets are pretty good. I´m just glad that we have running water all the time in our house. So another thing that would be nice would be if you could send beef jerky down here. They don´t have any of that here.
Well thats about all i have to report for this week. Oh so the place we are at is called Nonualco. That is our area. Right now I´m in San Vincente in an internet cafe. So about letters i think there will be a two week delay between letters, I don´t have a ton of time to write letters, so i might just stick to emails. well i gotta go. i love you all, i hope you all are enoying life, because im enjoying it here, Because im in the service of our lord and bringing people unto their salvation! -Elder John Paulsen