First Baptism of May- May 3, 2010

Hno Pablo at his bautismo.
(Disclaimer: This is a picture from a previous baptism, not the baptism Brea reports in this email.)

Hello Everyone,
So this week we had a multizona in Layco, which meant that we had to ride on the buses for two hours to get there. E´Bol told us we had to leave at 5, and then he and the ZL´s didn´t show up until 6 so that was a dirty trick. Oh well, he told the other elders in our district the same thing. We waited at the Torre for an hour, and Hna. Arroy got some sweet pictures of it. It’s really pretty when it’s all lit up. At the multizona I saw Hna. Torres and her new companion. That was kind of weird since she used to be my companion.

We continue to teach a bunch of lessons to a bunch of people who are totally ready to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

So this last Friday was Stephanie´s birthday, and I´ve been a total bum about mailing my letters and finding out where the post office is, so here is a little shout out to Steph, I love you lots and I´m sorry I haven´t sent your birthday letter yet. Oops, I´ll get on that soon.

On Saturday we had another baptism. It was the husband of the woman who was baptized last week, so it’s now a complete family! Yippy, and now when their awesome little girl turns eight he´ll have the opportunity to baptize her.

Yesterday President Perez drove down here and had interviews with Hna. Arroy and me and that took a while. Then we went to the appointments we had scheduled and neither person was home, so we started knocking doors and found some cool people to teach. Pretty much that’s my life on a mission. I love you all so much.
Love, Brea

It’s a hot, hot, hot world- April 26, 2010

Holy cow, it is so hot down here in Espiga (yeah, its spelled with an e...I found that out this week)! I never know the temperature but I know that it’s really hot! So, for the past month or so I’ve been having some trouble with my ankle hurting, so I talked to the mission nurse and we tried a few things like icing it and ibuprofen, and then we checked to see if I had gout..I didn´t. Now I’m on some antibiotics that seem to be helping out, so it seems to have been some weird kind of infection. But, as I said, it’s been feeling better the past few days. On Wednesday the mission nurse told me to take a day of rest for my ankle, so that was boring. We did some service by cleaning our chapel. It’s huge, or at least the normal size of an American chapel, which, down here, is huge. Oh, our Saturday was fantastic. We had a wedding and after the wedding the bride was baptized. Next week the groom is getting baptized too, as well as another investigator we´ve been teaching, so the people here in Espiga are really prepared for the gospel!

Yesterday I went on divisions/splits with some of the members in the Ward. One is preparing for her mission and she´s going to be a wonderful missionary. We visited some of the inactive members down here, which are a lot. Hna. Arroyo went with one of the other Hnas. in our ward who´s also preparing for a mission to another part of our area and found some more of the inactive members. So, as you can see, the work down here is really moving and keeping us busy with appointments, which makes it really hard to find time to contact people and knock doors, but we´ve got investigators, which is good. I love you all so much. How’s life in the United States?
Love,
Brea