eMail of June 21, 2010

Thanks, and Happy Father´s Day to Dad. The package came. So, Eric is leaving for the MTC. He will have fun I´m sure.

I´m glad to hear that everyone is happy and having fun. As for my side of the world, things are a little crazy right now. On Wednsday Chile won their first World Cup game this tournament, the first one they have won in 48 years. They played at 7:30 in the morning here and we were hearing fireworks and horns and trumpets nearly all day. Today again they won and there was a lot of celebration. Still every once in a while we hear horns and shouts and stuff. It isn´t as big as at first, but they are celebrating. As for the investigators we weren´t able to make any progress this last week. We only got to teach one and she couldn´t come to Church this week because of Father´s Day. She had to go to her parents´ house. We did get to teach several converts and less-actives. One convert came back to Church after months of inactivity. Things are moving slow right now but I can see that things will be much better later. All we have to do is keep working and doing our best. I must say that I am grateful to be here and to have had the opportunity to serve in this country. It is an amazing country and has a great deal of potential. I found out this last week as well that one of the brothers in our ward is an emeritus General Authority. He was a Regional Representative and the personal assistent to Bruce R. Mckonky years ago. Basically, what the first quorum of the Seventy is now, that is what he was a part of. It was interesting because you never would have known he was a general authority unless he told you. Well, I love you all and hope that you have fun at the reunion this next week.