April 30, 2012 - HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY!!!

Dear Familia,

Yeah, so this week was a little bit long! haha I gotta say that first thing!!!

So to start off, we worked hard with the people that we thought were going to progress, but it turns out that we had to drop a bunch of them. We ended up knocking doors a good portion of this week to look for new investigators. We ended up finding 18, but of those 18, 1 or 2 will progress. I mean statistically speaking ;) Yeah, so that was the majority of this week, knocking doors. We've got a good family that I hope will progress, but she's not married.......

This week was kinda crazy with a baptism too. We baptised a girl of 15 years that is called Lucerito. She looks like she's 18. She made this decision all on her own. I was kinda wowed with her determination. She was the one that approached us in the beginning, and we thought that she was a ¨snake¨ that's what they call 'em in the mission, but it turns out that she really wanted a change. Her family didn't want her to be baptised, but she did it anyways. I gotta say that she has been more of an example to me than I have been to her. It's incredible how the gospel can change a life or 2 ;)

Lucerito's baptism... Elder Pinegar & Elder Lescano

Yeah, so for my b-day the young adults threw me a  ¨surprise¨ party, but it wasn't a surprise because I knew haha --but I pretended like I didn't know.  They made me a cake.....then slammed my face in the cake haha, its kinda tradition here to do that. But they really helped me to enjoy my age, cause I'm no teenager anymore....20 years old haha wow!!

Happy 20th Birthday Elder Pinegar!! April 30, 2012

Celebrating 20 years with the Young Adults of Tumbes - April 2012

So that's the highlight of this week, oh and today we had a water fight at the church, because as you all know it is extremely hot here! As for the package, I'm sure it's here and I'll be picking it up this Thursday, so it will be a surprise!! haha I'm really looking forward to it!!

Water Fight with with ward! April 30, 2012

Oh and for this Mother's Day dealio, yes, I will be using skype and I'll get that all planned out for this 12-15 of May. I'll probably be calling in the evening, I don;t know the time difference there but that's your job to figure out k?! haha but let me know when is the best time to call so that I can see everyone k?! great! yeah so I'll see ya guys face to face in about 2 weeks!!

sinceremente,

E pinegar