7/24/13

Querido Familia, Monday was my first day in New Mexico. It is amazing beyond words. The people we teach are really great. But anyway my first day we did a kind of orientation thing and some of the missionaries took us to go knock on doors and talk to people. It was really fun. We got to have lunch and dinner at the mission home which was really good. I was happy to have some real food for once. Anyway thats all that really happened on Monday. Then yesterday we had transfers and I was assigned my trainer who is Elder Keith. He is great and I hear he is the best spanish speaker in the mission. Even some of the natives aren't as good. He is helping me a lot with my pronunciation and accent. I am in the Valle Vista Branch and Eubank ward. Valle Vista is spanish and Eubank is English young single adult. And these are both in the city of Albuquerque. They are on the east side. So, yesterday we taught 2 people both qualify to be in the Valle Vista branch, but one we taught in english because she likes it better. The first one we taught is named B. She has 3 kids and one on the way. She is super sweet and is trying to progress to baptism. The only thing stopping her is that she has issues with her boyfriend and is working on that. The other girl we taught is named L. Yesterday was her first lesson and we taught about the plan of salvation, because she asked us about it. We also committed her to baptism. The only problem is that she works on Sundays, so we don't know what we will do about that yet. We were going to visit her again today but she has a really busy schedule because she plays a ton of sports too. So we are going to try to visit her tomorrow. We also tried to visit other people yesterday but none of them were home. We did however meet a ton of other people and set up appointments with about 6-8 of them. And today we visited a man named C who attends church in the Eubank ward. He is so close to Baptism but he is just trying to quit smoking. We set a goal for him today to be baptized on the 17th of august and he has to be 2 weeks free of smoking in order to be baptized. Anyway, not much else we have a few other appointments tonight so we will see how those go. Other than that, The work is progressing very quickly. Thank you all for the emails Its good to hear that you are all doing well. Thank you Grandpa for those histories its really good to have stories I can tell about my ancestors. Please just send my package to the mission home address which you should have and it should be in the packet I got with my call. Oh and My mission president and his wife are fantastic and they did remember us from the MTC which was awesome, but he is pretty young so I wasn't really worried. Anyway be safe and do well. I love you all tons. Carino, Elder Lee