May 2,2010

Dear Mom and others,

So just to remind you i turn 20 next week. Kinda crazy right. How are you all doing? How´s life in pc where its still snowing? haha sorry mom.

I just got transfered leaving 4 baptisms in my last area for this saturday but it really doesn´t bother me b.c i have helped build up the area there and now I am in my new area to build it up for my father in heaven and the people here. I would like to see the people get baptized though. They mean alot to me. Especially brandon the little 9 year old boy i baptized. I gave him one of the scripture readers, that you sent me, as a going away present. I put his baptism picture in it and wrote my testimony. He said he´s going to take the book with him on his mission so he can show the people (this is who baptized me and this is who confirmed me). Brandon was like a little brother to me. I told them they´re invited to go live in my room at home :)

So my new area is called Jalpatagua. It is in the same mission zone as taxisco but a different municipalidad (like a county) its in one called Jutiapa. It is alot like taxisco and almost as hot. Its really beautiful but once again there are a ton of inactives and we are the councilours in the branch presidency. I feel almost like I´ve been called as a reactivating missionary as much as a baptizing missionary seeing as none of my areas have had more then a 20% attendance when i arrived. Im happy with that b.c i can help build the kingdom in so many ways. Anything i can possibly do to help these people and my God I will do.

My New companion is Elder Quiros. He´s from Costa Rica and has been out 6 months. He speaks perfect english and always talks to me in English so i always talk to him in Spanish. He seems like a really really good Elder.

My area is about 15 minutes from the Border of El Salvador and like I said it´s alot like Taxisco. I will be sweating almost continually again seeing as its almost always over 100 degrees with the humidity. Its still not quite as hot as taxisco though. That heat was incredible.

There are 6 people in my District (including Elder Martinez my old companion who is now my zone leader). We are really seperated from them though. The closer Elders live about 45 minutes away and then the zls live about an hour 15 away. They all seem like really good Elders and we will do good things.

We had our district meeting and the inbetween city today called oritorio. It went really well. I focused on teaching faith and prayer and shared 1ne 17:49-51 and told them its not how can we reach this goals it´s how can we not when God´s comanded us. We just have to do our part.

I am really excited to be here in this new area and help people. I love guatemala. It is so beautiful.

Mom I love you dearly. You are definately the best mother i have ever had ;) Really thank you for everything and especially all of your prayers. There is nothing like the power of a mothers prayer!

With much love,

Elder Vincent

Ps i got your packages and letters from paige and marnie but im waiting to open them until my birthday