Well this has been one interesting week. On Wednesday we biked all the way from our house in Guayama to Patillas, two cities over. It took about an hour. We were there contacting for about ten minutes when Elder Bryant called and said that I had to go to the office with his companion Elder Isaksen (who is from Norway) he said that Elder Isaksen was going to work on making a DVD for President Alvarado and that President had some problems with his iPhone and iPad that he wanted me to fix. (Somebody told them that I knew how to use Apple stuff so they always ask me to fix things for them). Anyway they said that I'd need to bring enough things to stay the night. We got to the office and started working together on the DVD, we only had about half the videos President wanted on there but he said, "Just get it done" so we had to be creative. It ended up that we were there from Wednesday morning to Friday night working on all the projects they had for us. We fixed one of his computers, we made the DVD, we fixed the calendar syncing on his iPad and iPhone and all kinds of stuff. So that was pretty different. Elder Bryant and Elder Arteaga stayed in Guayama and Arroyo and worked in both areas for those three days.
We have been doing really well in Arroyo. We're teaching Jairo, who is the nine year old grandson of a member of the branch. It's really fun to teach him because we use a lot of examples and everything. He is a really cool kid and it's cool to think about how he'll be able to receive the priesthood and go on a mission, and that the things he's learning now with us will be the base for everything he does later in his life. We weren't able to teach Daniel, our investigator with a baptismal date, last week but we have an appointment with him this week. We have been working really hard at finding new investigators and helping the ones we have now. I think I mentioned this in the last email but we are working a lot with Eugenia, the mother of Alexis Vicil who was a missionary in the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission not too long ago. She has been taking the missionary lessons for about 7 years now but we really believe she can be baptized. We have been praying so much to be guided to what it is that she needs to understand so she can be baptized. It's been amazing how much I've been able to learn about helping others to come unto Christ. It is the most rewarding work I have ever done. It is so special to feel like somebody has learned more about Heavenly Father and gone further in their eternal progression because of something you've taught them.
Well, that's how this week has been. I wish I could write everything about that has happened in this week, but I'd be here all day. But I know this is the Lord's work. I know this is His gospel and His Church. There is no way these things are not true.
Elder Duclos
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