Sept.20,2010

Dear Mom,
Good to hear that all is going well back home and that you are all keeping busy. First off a few weeks ago dad told me that Bentley has been attacking shoes and i would just like to kindly request that you keep my closet closed where the shoes are unreachable haha.
This week went really well. We´ve been kind of struggling in getting people to church lately but we´re working toward success so please keep your prayers with these people that they will be humble and make the right decisions
It was kind a rough week with not seeing the investegators progressig like i would like and also getting into the flow agian after translating all last week but it is incredible how much i have felt the lords love this week. Even with all my many imperfections he still pours his love down upon me. Sometimes I feel a little unworthy of all the Love i feel from him because of how often i am selfish and forget about him. He never forgets me though and is always there to comfort me.
One of ways I most felt his love this week was in a talk that i found in the house of Elder Lawrence Corbridge of the 70. I have been praying really hard lately for strength to have a change of heart and be a better missionary and when i felt really weak i found this talk and it helped me incredibly. It talked alot about what kind of missionary we can be and what we need to do to be the best missionary possible. It talked about the best missionary isnt one how is just obedient and does what is right but that gives his heart and mind to the lord. He said the best missionary is the one that sacrifices his will for the will of the Lord. I have a very very long way to go and am fighting every day but i am progressing and working on sacrificing my will for the Lords so that he can mold me into what is the best me.
I was also asked to give a talk this week in sacrement and talked about Charity, Service and Sacrifice. It was one of the better talks i think i´ve given. I talked about the Charity being the Pure love of Christ. It being Christs love we have to get it from christ and give it as he would give it. I talked about serving others so that their hearts will be opened to accept the spirit. I shared that we need to do what Jesus would do. Jesus always did the will of the Father.
I had been praying that it would atleast touch the heart of one other person and after sacrement meeting a lady came up to me and thanked me for my talk b.c it helped answer her prayers. I am so greatful to be an instrument in the hands of the lord.
I wanted to challenge the family to do something this week. I was reading a talk today and it talked about how the fire of our testimony grows when we share it. I want to challange you all to share your testimony everyday this week and then tell me about how it went. It can be with the family, another member or a non member but this is my challange to you all. Also mom and dad i want to invite you to read a talk by Pres. Eyring called ¨Hearts Bound Together¨ from 2005. It talks about the same thing i invited you to do before in writing down family stories. ( i hope the book is going well by the way) Remember its what i asked for for my Birthday ;)
I love you all and pray that you always have the strength to stand up for what is right. I know the Lord love you and is watching over you and that brings me great comfort. He is also watching over me as a perfect Father watches over his son who is about doing His work.
Love,
Elder Vincent

Sept.13,2010

Dear Mom and family,
Im glad as usually to hear that you all are doing well. I know that there have been some struggles with football but sometimes you learn and grow even more from losing then winning. The tough part is putting what you learn in practice and never doubting.
Things are really good here. My new companions name is Elder Tua´one. He is from San Bernadino California and is a really cool guy. His parents and from tonga and he goes to a Tongan ward back home.
We havent had much time to work in are area lately b.c of the translating we did but thats ok b.c it went really really well. We translated for doctors of the navy and air force and we were able to contact and invite alot of people to church that went through there. We were also able to teach alot of the military and volunteers there and give them a great example of the church. I really wish that we had had pamphlets and books of mormon in english that we could have given them but we were still able to have quite a few gospel discussions with them which was awesome. We translated in a place called puerto Barrios and the attendace at church this week was really high there and i really believe it was because of what we did with translating. It was also so cool to meet alot of volunteers and military that were members of the church. There were quite a few people from Utah there.
Dad had a question to know if the medical terms were hard and yeah there was some stuff that was pretty hard to translate and there was alot of stuff that i had to say that i never thought i would say in spanish but its all good, it helped my spanish alot and i really really enjoyed it. Now we just need to get back to work in my area.
Im really excited about the changes that we had in the zone. There are alot of elders that ive worked withe before that have moved into the zone including 2 of my old comps (Brunsvick and Nadeau). There are also alot of new elders in the zone which i believe will bless us alot. This zone has alot of potential we just have to put in the work and be worthy of the blessings.
I hope you have alot of fun for Erics Birthday. I am praying for you all all of the time. I know that this is the greatest work that i can be doing right now and pray always for the strength to do what is right and follow the spirit.
Love,
Elder Vincent

Sept 7,2010

Dear Mom and Family,
Whats up?!! How are things back in Utah. Things are pretty awesome here in Gualan (hot like always but loving it). This week was incredibly busy. We had an awesome turn out at church 70. The branch presidents son leaves on his mission thursday so may that helped alot but it was really cool to see the church so full.
Saturday we moved into a new house and it is awesome. I really dont like moving and packing and stuff but this non member friend helped us with his truck and we were able to move really fast. Truthfully our new house is probably the nicest house in the mission. It has a big bathroom, a big kitchen and a big room where we sleep with its own closet and Air Conditioning. We dont really use the air conditioning though b.c electricity is expensive here. I´ll try and send you some pictures nxt week.
Sunday night we got a call from the asistants telling us that this week that the area presidency asked us and the other district in the zone to go to Puerto Barrios and translate for a medical mission that is going to be there. So yesterday we went as well as the rest of the week we will be there working with them. Except today(because its 2 hours away and my comp has to pack) and wednesday because of changes. So i will be doing alot of traveling this week and will get very little time to work in my own area but its all good i can share the gospel wherever i go.
Yesterday when we went it was really awesome. It is something the the US air force and the Navy are doing as a joint mission on a huge medical boat. They are traveling all over the world to various destinations to provide these medical services. I really really respect the armed forces and what they do. It was really tempting for me to go and play football at navy but i knew the mission and family was my number 1 priority. If you remember i translated (or tried mostly running errands) last october in my 3rd week in the field. It was really awesome to see my progression with spanish in translating for these peple (even though medical terms aren´t my specialty in spanish). Sometimes i was sitting there translating wondering why the english speaker couldnt understand b.c it just seemed so easy and natural. This mission (because its run by the military) is alot more organized than the first one that i translated for. Also something cool is that there were 3 members of the church working there. One was in the navy and her nephew served a mission in Equador and the other two lived in heber ( on lives in woodscross now) the two of them were volunteers and the guy new Bruce which is cool. I´ll try and write you more about how it goes next week and send some pictures. We didn´t write yesterday b.c we got back from the mission too late last night.
Last night we also got our changes call and my comp has changes. I was really hoping to stay with him more then just 3 weeks but he´s been here 4 changes already so it is probably his time to go. I think im going to break a mission record for the most companions ever though. Haha. Elder Rodriguez only has two changes left so he´ll probably be going to his last area. Also every area in our zone has changes so there will be alot of new areas to work with which i think will be a good thing.
Thank you for all your love and all of your prayers. Please pray for the people here. We need to find more families that can progress. I love you and thank you for emailing me the pictures.
Love,
Elder Vincent
PS tell badger good luck for me and try and get me hayden and his addresses if you can.

Aug.30,2010

Dear Mom and Family,
This was a pretty good week. Im glad to hear that everything went well back home as well. I´ve been praying alot for Mac and Jill this week. Its really awesome to see the family growing. This week we had a really good zone conference and President Alvarado asked us to thank all of our parents for there prayers and concern for his wife during her surgery so i thought i would pass that on. I really really enjoyed our zone conference this week and was able to learn alot about how to be a better missionary.
Thursday we were able to have a baptism of one of our investigators Carlos Fernando Lopez. He´s a really cool humble 23 year guy. He was baptized by the Branch Presidents son who leaves on his mission to Quetzaltelnalgo on the 8th. It was cool to see him get a baptism before he left. Three other people i was teaching ended up getting baptized in Jalpatagua this saturday. The area was able to get 7 baptisms this month and has one more fur saturday so will have 8 this change. The district didn´t reach the goal of 20 baptisms but had 17 which is quite a miricle. We only finished this month with 4 in my new zone with only my area and one other baptizing so well have to turn that around. I know we can though.
Saturday the Branch Presidents son took out his endowments and we were able to go through the session with him. It was a really awesome experience. I really felt the Love of God as i went to the temple this time. It was cool to go with junior and i think it really helped him that we went with him. I think it would have really helped me to have a couple of friends at the temple with me the first time i went. We´ve really been able to spend alot of time with Junior (the branch presidents son) and even took him to our joint PDay with us this week. He´s a really good guy and really excited to leaveon his mission.
I really like my new area. It is really really hot but there area alot of really good people here to teach and alot of good members, especially the branch president. It is in the hundreds most of the days here year round. I think my mission is good preperation to live in arizona or nevada maybe b.c i have almost only been in hot areas.
So i wanted remake the invitation that i made to you all at the begining of my mission hoping that you will really try hard to do it. I wanted to invite you as a family to i bring someone to church and to dinner every sunday for the rest of my mission. Whether it be a non member or a less active or even a member i really think its needed that our family reaches out more and like you´ll have told me there is no better way then food. Please have people over to eat on sundays and get people to church. Go pick up people sunday mornings to take them. Go visit people sunday afternoons. I´ve really learned alot here no matter how little someone has they are willing to sacrifice. I know there is alot more that we can be doing back home. We just cant get complacent ofr lazy.
I love you all and am thankful for all of your thoughts and prayers.
Love,
Elder Vincent
Ps do we have 4 missionaries in the stake now? And also please thank bishop walk for me for all he is doing. He is a great servant of the lord.

Aug.23,2010

Dear mom and family,

Things are going really well here in my new area. Its called Gualan, Zacapa. Its suppose to be incredibly hot but has been kind of rainy and cloudy lately so it hasn´t been to bad. I haven´t even had to sleep with a fan on lately which is pretty incredible.

Every elder who has been in this area has loved it and im sure that i will too. From what i hear the ward and espeically the Branch president are awesome and from what i can tell everyone is right. The branch president is a really really good guy. His second son will be leaving on his mission in 2 weeks for the Quezaltelnalgo mission here in guate. He already has one son on a mission in peru who was born 2 days after me.

This week was pretty crazy so i did´t get a ton of time to get out and work out in my area but when i did i met some really good people. We taught a man and his wife for the 2nd time who´s child was really sick because she got burned. They were really really accepting and have been prepared very well to recieve the gosple. They have met and respect many members of the church and i know if they will just pray that then they will know that the church is true.

I´ve really been amazed lately at how the spirit has been increasing my teaching ability. I´ve really been able to simplify my teaching lately and think of examples that relate to the people and to the topic. I really cant explain it other then heavenly guidence that we can be sitting in a lesson and i can think of a good example that the people will understand.

My area is really pretty and green right now but my comp said that when he got here that it was really really brown and dry bc it is a desert. They have had a lot of rain here though so its green. They´ve actually probably had too much rain. The Rio Hondo flows right by here and when Hurricane agatha hit here it completely flooded and covere many houses. I´ll try to send you pictures latter b.c it was really increidble. The rive rose more then 10 feet and theyre were many houses completely under water. It will give us a good chance to teach alot of very humbled people about spiritual preparedness though.

Im hoping everything goes well for jill mac and paige this week and also with heath and eric starting school. I hope everything is going well with the family and that you are always looking for ways to grow and be better.

I love you all.

Love,

Elder Vincent

Aug.23,2010

Aug.19,2010

What Up Fam!,

How are you guys all doin? Im doing awesome here but its been a long few days. I just got emergency changed again. My buddy Elder Fatongia got sick and so they moved him into the capital and they moved me out to a place called Gualan, Zacapa. Its known for being pretty hot out here but i like that. It is close to the east coast and is the zone furthest away from the capital so there will be alot of traveling. Everyone tells me my area is really cool though so im sure i will have alot of fun. I like my comp alot too. Hes from coasta rica and his name is Elder Rodriguez. Ive known him most of my missions so we get along pretty well.

I got a call Sunday night that i had these changes and had to be in the capital monday morning. i dont like packing. We missed the bus that night so we didnt get out here until last night. Its kind of a bummer that im going to miss the 4 baptisms that we had scheduled for this weekend but as long as they get baptized its all good. I dont really need to be there and plus the elder that went to my area is a stud so hell get it done. My comp out there should finish the month with 8 probably 9 baptisms and maybe 10 for the changes. Im really excited for the success in Jalpatagua.

Im really greatful for the new oportunity that i have to be in my new area and try to help these people and esecially the missionaries.

Its kind of crazy that some of my best buddys are leaving the mission in the next 9 weeks. Ive met some really really cool people out here and it will be sad to see them go but ill always remember the experiences with them.

Im sorry that i dont have much to write. Alot happend this week but its hard to remember it all. Just know that im safe healthy and happy.

Love,

Elder Vincent

ear Family,

This week was awesome! It had its crazy times but also some awesome times. First off i want to remind you to pray together as a family always and have personal talks. Also make sure to do your visits and bring people back to the gospel.

That sounds awesome about the sealing. We need to make a concious effort to find our ancestors and get to know them. Remember to keep working on the family history book that i asked for for my birthday.

So this week we spent most of the week trying to get the Flores Cruz family ready for there baptism. They live really far away so it was alot of travel and running around teaching and trying to get them interview but it was worth it. The day before the interview we asked the kids why they wanted to get baptized and one said because they love the church and then the other said b.c they want to be elders (missionaries) one day. That was really cool.The dad and his two oldest boys were baptized on saturday. My comp baptized the dad Pascual and his oldest son Fransisco and I baptized the younger boy Selvin. It was really cool. They were so excited. Our Branch President really helped us out alot this week too.

The husband of Aura that we baptized last week came to church for the first time this week and also the baptism and told us he felt something really strong and wants to get baptized too. So we`re planning on baptizing him and 2 or Auras other kids later in the month. We also have a Baptismal date for this Saturday with Elfido who we have been teaching for a long time. Hopefully it goes down. He really needs it and he is ready.

Our district is doing really well. I dont think this district baptized april when i wasn`t here and i know we didn`t baptize in may. I think there were 8 weeks in this district without a baptism and then my comp and i had one in June so i think there was one baptism in about 14 weeks. But its completly turned around. We have had a baptism in our district the last 6 straight week and in the last 6 weeks our 3 areas alone have had 19 baptisms (9 in the last two weeks.) Our goal for August is 20 baptisms in the district and when we get it we will have gotten over 30 baptisms in 2 months. That will be pretty incredible seeing as our whole zone of 10 areas only had 1 baptism in may and most zones dont get 20 baptisms in a month. Our mission goal is 30 baptisms per zone per month but so far no one has reached it. I know that if we show that its possible others will begin to have more faith and things will take off. Romans 5:19

My mission hasn`t been known for the most baptizing mission in Central America but our last 2 months have been our best 2 months with Pres Alvarado. Our mission is really turning around and changing for the good. I am really happy with the way things have been going and the actions and atitudes of the elders here.

President is really happy with us as well so this month he decided to give us a super P-day. We got 5 of the zones together in a nice chapel in the capital to have P-day together. It was really some of the most fun i`ve had in a long time. I played basketball most of the time (which i haven´t done in like 10 months). It felt like i was out back again playing bball with the boys. It really felt good. More then anything i liked seeing and being with the Elders. There are some really cool good guys here. Alot of my good friends are leaving in the next 2 changes so i`ll miss them but im so glad i´ve gotten to know them. I hope i can be eternal friends with them. It was by far the best pday i`ve ever had. I am greatful for the blessings i have and the joy i was able to experience this week.

I got your package this week. Thanks for being such a good mom and taking care of me so well. I really enjoyed the stuff on Badger and from your foxall family. Im sending Chris a letter this week. Im not sure why you`ll haven`t gotten my letters yet but i`ll keep praying you get them.

I love you all alot and am greatful for all your thoughts and prayers.

Love,

Elder Vincent

Dear Family,
Thank you for your emails. They really mean alot and keep me motivated. On the mission your pretty secluded and sometimes wonder if people still remember you but every time i get your emails i am greatful for the great family i was blessed with. I got letters from Hayden and Mara this week too which was nice.
This week went really well. We baptized a lady named Aura Lorenzo. She lives really far away and her family is really poor but she wanted to be baptized and was ready so we got her baptized. There is also this young girl named Daniela who is the neice of the branch President so she comes to church with us but we had the other Elders in oratorio teach her b.c she lives there, get baptized too. Her family (especially her step mom) doesn´t treat her well so she might move and be adopted by our branch president. I had the baptism count for the other branch but she asked me to confirm her and i felt very honored. She seems so much happier sinces shes been talking about being baptized and had a new radience Sunday.
We took her family with us to the baptism as well and another family that we´ve been teaching from this area called Buena Vista in Moyuta. We challanged them to get baptized this next saturday and they really really want to. They will be three or four (the moms still alittle doubtful if she wants to yet) if they can stop drinking coffee by then.
The next day at church we didn´t have very many people here at all. Its really hard to do missionary work and try and keep the members coming to church but in little branches like this its what you have to do. Aura was confirmed in church as well by our branch President. After church she told us how much two of her kids want to get baptized now too and asked when they can get baptzed so if they get prepared by saturday we might be having 5 to 6 baptisms!!! Please pray hard for us that we can get it done. More that the Lords will will be done. It may not be this saturday but just pray that they will prepare to make the baptismal covenent with God.
Our District has been doing incredible. There are 3 areas and in July we has 11 baptism we didn´t baptize and so that was just in two areas. But this week we had 4 in the distict and everyone baptized. It was a great way to start a month. We have 4 baptisms for august already and 13 more dates. Are goal is twenty which would be a miracle b.c most zones in our mission dont get 20 baptisms in a month.
Today for pday my comp and i went to the capital b.c he lost both his tags so we`´ve both been Elder Vincent for a couple of weeks. He used on of my tags. I got to eat lunch a quiznos which is always good and i got to hang with Elder Hill my mtc comp who´s in the office. He´s the one from Bruces ward and he had some pictures of them and they look good. He is probably my best friend on the mission. I love him.
So would really like to know if you and dad and heath have gotten my letters and if they are reading my letters to the ward. Also if you see badger tell him Congrats for me. My teacher her in the CCm went to Equador and loved it. There are native elders there who dont cut there hair as part of there culture and speak some other cool language.
Thanks for all of your love and suport and please make sure to send my emails to people. Especially Aunts Uncle and cousins. I want to help as many people as possible.
Love,
Elder Vincent

Dear Family,

How are things going back home. I hope your really enjoying life. We only get one chance so we should enjoy it and make the most of it. Make sure you show Briggs alot of love right now and dont judge him. I think thats one of the biggest faults of the Church. We take it upon our selves to judge others when really we should be looking for ways to help them and love them.

Thats super sweet that you got to talk to Elder Clark. He`s an awesome guy. I was a a District Conference with him back in april in Milagro. He`s an awesome guy with lots of Love and passion for the work of the lord. In the conference he actually had the missionaries stand up in front of all of the members and thanked us for our work. It was really cool.

This week was really good but i need to work harder. I will pray harder for more strength and diligence in the work. I think i want to obtain the attribute of being tenacious for the work of the Lord. I love this work so much but sometimes i feel glimpses of fear b.c of the pain that comes when people reject the message but i must not fear at all. ¨Dont fear, only believe.¨ Fear is the opposite of faith. I know that i must fight all of my fears in order to be a true diciple of Christ. Its working a little as i dont think im as afraid of snakes or dogs anymore :) still working though. I know i have the abiblity to conquere the adversary bc ive already done it before.

We didn´t have as much success as far as people in church this week. 5 investigators and only one can get baptized anytime soon and only 39 members but i`ll be tenatious and keep working hard and hopefully be an instrument of feeling the Lords love. We have 3 baptisms planned for Saturday though and We might be able to get 7 which would be awesome. We find out about changes tonight though so we`ll see if i`ll be here. Our goal for August is 11 and i believe 100% that is will happen. It doesn´t matter if im here or not though b.c they are the Lords baptisms and not mine I just need to pray alot that they happen.

Yesterday we went up to moyuta to celebrate the Birthday of two of Hna Auras kids. Aura is going to be baptized on Saturday. They couldn´t afford to buy a cake for them so my comp and i baught one and took it to them. We taught them about how much God love them as his children and is concious of what they are doing.

Im going to write a letter to the ward. Please let me know if they read it or if im just wasting my time.

I love you all so much and you help me stay motivated through your prayers. Stay stong and pray always.

Love,

Elder Vincent

Dear Mom,

Im glad things went well in MT. Its a great place. Im sure briggs did a great job. Tell him good luck for me. He`ll be a good missionary.

So you asked about a package and i'd much rather have letters. But if you want to send me a package you can send me new electic razor heads, scriptures in English, A new journal (about the size of a year book) and lots of prayers.

This week went really well. Thank you all for all of your prayers. They paid off. We had 52 people in church and 14 investigators!!! They really make great sacrifices to get there and now we just need to get them to get baptized so they can really reap the real blessings. Please keep praying for them and these people. I know we need to keep finding new families and people though. I know i cant get satified. I will not get complacent. This work is to important and there are too many lost sheep we must help. Sometimes it feels overwhelming b.c of such a great responsiblity and so little rest but the lord gives me strength always and i dont even get tired. I know this is his work and i need to learn better how to do it his way.

I wanted to invite yuou all in your next family home evening to do an activity to pray about all the things your need to improve on in your lives and listen to what the spirit tell you`ll and write these things down and look at them every morning.

Im really hoping you`ll are enjoying your summer time together. Dont waste the time the lord gives us and learn to enjoy life. I hope you got my letter. Please let me know if you did ( dad too)

Dont forget that your the best mom ever and that i love you.

Love,

Elder Vincent

Ps dont worry about me worry about the peo`ple here im working with. I couldn´t be any happier!!!!

July 19,2010

Dear Mom,

Im glad things went well in MT. Its a great place. Im sure briggs did a great job. Tell him good luck for me. He`ll be a good missionary.

So you asked about a package and i'd much rather have letters. But if you want to send me a package you can send me new electic razor heads, scriptures in English, A new journal (about the size of a year book) and lots of prayers.

This week went really well. Thank you all for all of your prayers. They paid off. We had 52 people in church and 14 investigators!!! They really make great sacrifices to get there and now we just need to get them to get baptized so they can really reap the real blessings. Please keep praying for them and these people. I know we need to keep finding new families and people though. I know i cant get satified. I will not get complacent. This work is to important and there are too many lost sheep we must help. Sometimes it feels overwhelming b.c of such a great responsiblity and so little rest but the lord gives me strength always and i dont even get tired. I know this is his work and i need to learn better how to do it his way.

I wanted to invite yuou all in your next family home evening to do an activity to pray about all the things your need to improve on in your lives and listen to what the spirit tell you`ll and write these things down and look at them every morning.

Im really hoping you`ll are enjoying your summer time together. Dont waste the time the lord gives us and learn to enjoy life. I hope you got my letter. Please let me know if you did ( dad too)

Dont forget that your the best mom ever and that i love you.

Love,

Elder Vincent

Ps dont worry about me worry about the peo`ple here im working with. I couldn´t be any happier!!!!

Subject: Re: July 11,2010

Dear Family,

So i forgot to write this last week so I`ll write it first. I was wondering if you remembered the last time that the 4th of July was on a Sunday. If you dont lets see if ¨play ball!!!¨ freshens your memory. I know im a legend.

So its kind of hard to believe the whole Lebron, Bosh and wade on one team thing so you might need to verify that for me. Also i heard Utah is now in the Pac-10. What happend with that?

Hna Alvarado is in the states for surgery but thats really all that i know. Elder Falabela of the 70 is in charge of our mission right now. I was also wondering if mom and dad have gotten my letters and if the read my letter to the ward and or if i should just not write them???

It sounds like things are going well back home. The football picture of heaths team looks good but they all look skinny!!! haha work harder. Tell people that i say hi when you see them.

Things are really really good here. We have alot of people that are really really close to getting baptized but satan is working really hard so that they dont.

We have one guy Elfido who has been going to church for almost 2 months now has prayed and has a testimony of the church. Everytime we go by he is reading a pamphlet or the book of mormon. He says he will always go to church and wants to get baptized but for some reason he`s not doing it. Hes gotten married stopped drinkin and stopped smoking and now just drinks a little coffee but i think he does it just so that he cant get baptized right now. We had a good talk with him on sunday and he said we`ll talk more about what his concerns are the next time we visit him.

Then we have Aura and her family. They live over an hour away from the church and sometimes cant come b.c they cant afford it. She`s been twice though and loves the church but she says she`s already been baptized 2 times. I`ve tried lots of simple ways to teach that they dont count to God but shes been really brainwashed by other churches and i think is more scared of being jugded by them then by god.

Then we have Fransisco and Ofelia and their family. They are 4 to be baptized and 2 little kids. They are super sweet and practically teach them selves but cant get to church b.c they also live an hour away and cant pay the 20 quetzales ($2.50) to get to church. They want to get baptized but we have to figure how to help them get to church. they`ve gone once.

We also have some sweet families in san fransisco, whichi is a little closer. There are two families there (related to elfido) whose kids are always begging therir parents to let them go to church but there parents still wont go with them. One auder lets his three oldest kids go and loves studdying and reading but hasn`t gone to church yet. He`s 32 and has 7 kids! The other is Anival who has some of the coolest kids i`ve met but he hasn`t let them go to church with us yet. The little 6 year old Junior to us when he is 8 that he is going to be baptized a mormon. Hes a way cool little kid.

We are teaching alot of great people and families but im trying to figure out the way to get over the hump with them. I also need to stay focused on finding new families while still working with these ones.

I love being a missionary. Its the best thing ever. I actually have a pretty nice apartment and we live on the second level. We dont have hot water though. My shoes are doing good. It rains alot right now so they`re usally wet though. There is no place i would rather be right now then right here. I hope all is going well with you`ll and that you are growing as a family.

I love you all.

Love,

Elder Vincent

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