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