Challenge of the Week? Thinking in English!

The first paragraph will probably not make any sense to most people, so an explanation is in order. We are getting ready to send E. Connole's younger brother off to college and are trying to find all the stuff that should have been left over to send with him. Unfortunately we aren't having much luck! I was very pleased to find that the one box we did manage to uncover had the Swedish cheese cutter in it. Swedish cheese cutters, you must understand, are not easy to come by (unless you are in Sweden) and thus highly coveted. He understands he would have been in deep water had he lost that one! LOL

Um...think I left another box in Kris´s room´s closet. Man I can´t think in english any more. Of course I kept the cheese cutter, thats a vital life line, that really everyone should have. My pension I´m sure would love to get one.

We lost like 44 missionaries or so to the Cuzco mission. This week we are getting 24 and losing 12. We´ll keep increasing until we have a 150 or so missionaries in the mish once again.

Yes I did get pictures :). This last week I´ve been eating 2 lunches because our district leader was getting training so we had his comp, Elder Sanchez with us. So we ate at our pension then his. It was pretty cool.

I didn´t resell some of the texts because, A) some of them it was their last year of use and the classes got new texts, B) some they only took back a certain amount and I arrived too late. So yeah.

So my zone leader has been pretty crappy about getting us letters, and they are same for this new transfer. but we have a new district leader who is my new comp. so it should be better, Elder Aguilar. His parents are mexican but he was born in Cali. So he speaks both languages fluently. So far he seems pretty cool.

I´m sad to hear Kunz and Rogers are having a tough time. Puno and Juliaca have always been tough areas, they are a lot colder and there aren´t too many members.

We should be having a couple baptisms here pretty quick. We have a part member family that is more asctive than half the members. but they have been wanting to wait until their son comes back from his mission (and has yet to recieve his call) I´ll keep you updated obviously.

Saturday was the baptism, E. Chaca and I went on splits so that he could talk we the investigator a little more about the baptism and i went to fill the font and get everything ready. When I got back they told me that she doesn´t want to be baptized yet. She wants to wait until her boyfriend gets baptized too. They both have dates for the 14th of next month so we´ll see.

Santiago another possiblity has yet to be able to change his work or schedule to get sundays off. so until he can fix that he will be stuck in limbo.

The new president is pretty crazy. He has some really big plans for the future, starting now, like 10 baptisms minimum every month, 90 contacts a day, stuff like that. Right now we are doing 1 or 2 baptisms, and about 20 contactacts a day. So if we can get to this goal it´d be awesome.

Love ya!

Elder Patrik Connole

p.s. Keep me updated on Jessica & Andre if you can.

For some reason, I can't get the picture he sent to upload today. I will try it again next week!