July 30, 2012

Hey! This has been a great week. Elder Raymundo and I have been finding a lot of families, and next week we have a lot of appointments that we're really excited about. It's been really good because it has been hard recently to find anyone that has stuck around but things are starting to pick up now. But other than that things have been pretty normal around here. The mission is preparing for a mission tour from Elder Claudio Zivick of the Seventy. He is the new counselor in the Caribbean area presidency, and he'll be acting under the direction of President Packer. A mission tour means that he'll be authorized to make any change in the mission that he needs to, he's coming on August 13 and we've been doing a lot to prepare. It's pretty exciting! They've asked us to fast every Sunday until he comes so we can prepare, because it'll be a really good opportunity to reflect on the things we can change and improve. It'll be great. 

A priest from our ward just got back from a mini mission, where he went out for two weeks with the missionaries in a different area. He came back super excited to help with missionary work and it's been pretty contagious with the whole ward. He's even coming out with us on bikes on Saturday. We found a new investigator next week named Reynaldo. He was in the military and was injured so now he's retired. He investigated the church with his family when he was about 15 but doesn't remember a lot. The first time we went we taught the Restoration and showed the video of the first vision and when we went back the other day he had been reading the Book of Mormon. He has a lot of free time and as a hobby he makes little sculptures out of aluminum foil. He has an entertainment center in his family room with hundreds of them, he makes anything that you can imagine, and they're pretty cool. He even gave one each to Elder Raymundo and me when we first contacted him. 

But everything has been going really well. I love it here and it is so awesome to be able to spend all day helping people receive the restored gospel. I hope next week I'll have a lot of good news about our investigators and how they're doing. I love you and I know this gospel is true. I know my Savior lives. 

Elder Duclos