First Week with Wagner (6/8/10)

Hey fam!

It was my first week with Elder Wagner. It was honestly pretty good. We started working out in the dangerous neighborhood (in the mission we call it a red zone) and we're having some real success. We found a girl on Wednesday and had a couple of charlas with her, and then her and her son came last Sunday. Her parents are planning on coming too this Sunday. So that's going to be pretty cool. Found some really good people out there. Had a charla with Analìa yesterday too, it was a really good charla. Really spiritual. She is struggling and was in a depressive slump. So we had a really good charla with her and we know she felt the spirit. We just talked about prayer and how important it is. We applied prayer to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I think it helped her a lot. We have another charla with her tomorrow and then a family home evening in the Valle family's house. It should be really good. SHe didn't come to church sunday because she slept in again - I forgot to call her. We just need to buy her an alarm.

We are making a BUNCH of cookies today for the members. It should help us get our confidence back.

We are going to have a great week this week - our zone averages 35 lessons a week with a member present, but in the zone leader's council we talked about how much we need to improve our work with the members. So, we put a goal of 70 this week, and we're convinced we're going to get it. Vamos arriba!

Well send my regards to Corry. I'm proud he's graduating and taking baby steps forward. How is his relation with the family? I hope Tina is doing good too and that she's getting caught back up in school after the FL trip.

Mom - talk looks good. Nice and short... planning on a little improv, or is it supposed to be short? I don't think I'm a super good judge, since I've been speaking spanish for a while. "Dreams require stretching and growing outside of oneself, a commitment to greatness, and passion." I couldn't tell where the dividing points of the thought are - are they 3 items? Or four? Just weird for me. It could sound perfect to you, just make sure you pause at the right parts. "Your vision, your dreams are the promise of what you will one day become." Your visions and your dreams? Your visions and dreams? Your dreams? And I had to read about the peninsula a couple of times to grasp what you were trying to say. But I like it, don't get discouraged. Haha. (MOM NOTE: writing a graduation speech and asked for his input.)

Ummmm I'm proud of you mom for fixing your computer! And as far as you guys coming down to get me - I would love for both of you to come, but you might want to consider renting a car, because public transportation with 3 would be a little awkward (seats are in pairs).

Well I think that's all for today. I love you all and hope you have a great week!