Everything went really well this week it was honestly an awsome week. It did get really cold but the sweater and
suit jacket that I have did the trick and then the experience I have with putting on a lot of layers at night helped too. I stayed warm enough at night so you don´t need to worry.  It is also one of the coldest January's here too, and it sounds like that in February it gets even colder so we'll see what happens.

We actually had talks yesterday too.  January 1 we had testimony meeting and yesterday we had fast Sunday, I don´t know why they did that, but it all worked out cuz the temple president ended up taking my spot speaking. (Three weeks in a row I've dodged the bullet.  Three different talks prepared, 0 given)

I´m glad to hear about Sofie too.  Tell her congratulations.

I´m glad to hear about all of the other missionaries, family, friends and neighbors.  De hecho (in fact) Jack sent me an email too this week and it´s just really cool to get the support from everybody and hear that everyone is alright.

That night that we were locked out of the house we stayed in the Zone Leader´s house because they live in the ward and like 5 minutes from our house.

I do miss the snow. Everyone here is so cold and I´m loving it.  I am honestly happier with the cold and feel an extra energy and excitement to be in the cold, it´s so much fun, but I´m looking into buying some gloves too for the next time.  I wish I could help shoveling the driveway, I really want to build a snowman, but it sounds like I can
build plenty with 3 feet of snow in college.

This week was awesome in the work.  Oscar and Sarai are still planning for their baptism next Saturday. They are old investigators that last week told us that they miss going to church and that they feel that it is missing in their life.  The ward will hopefully help us get them married and then we can get them into the water the 21st of this month.  They have already received lessons for 3 months and we stopped teaching them in December, like the first week, but now they came to us and said that they are ready to get baptized and are making the changes necessary.  I sure hope everything works out and that we can get everything reviewed for this baptism next Sunday.

Alan, the young adult that was also an old investigator has started going to chuch now too, without us teaching him or anything.  I guess his parents have softened up, and I think we may start teaching him now again too. Hopefully we can teach a bit to his parents and maybe they´ll be interested in learning more too.

Then Martin and Isidra are starting to progress too.  Martin is a Taxi Driver that we contacted a month and a half ago.  We can only find them in their house when his taxi is out front, and so we haven't taught them all that much. They are starting to show more interest though and are starting to read the Book of Mormon and to pray. Hopefully we can help them to understand the importance of Church attendance and we can get them to come to church next Sunday.

We are contacting a lot of people in the streets looking for new investigators and it´s honestly helping us a lot.  Everyone in the zone acutally saw a lot more success this week as we came out of the holiday break (break for everyone else, not for us) and hopefully we´ll really get some good teaching experiences going too.

Actually this morning we had a lesson with the Brother in Law of the Bishop, Adolfo. He is great.  He has a lot of really good questions and wants to learn more.  He has several problems that the church is helping him with and now we´re trying to help him too.  He´s very direct with his questions and sometimes he comes across angry even
though he is honestly just asking a question.  At one point this moring he said, "Ok, what is your testimony of this?" When I started to bear testimony of the Book of Mormon he said "No, I want what you´ve seen in your life"  Well I gave him what he asked for.  I bore testimony to him and it was cool to see the change in his eyes as he
felt the spirit.  My companion got the same question asked right after and it was awesome to be able to bear straight testimony of the family, the priesthood and the blessings of the church in my life with him sitting there listening with all his attention.

He´s excited to read the book of Mormon and to pray about it too.  He already has a few weeks going to chuch but this was our first time teaching him.  I sure hope everything gets worked out and that he gets an answer to his prayers.  He wants to know it´s true and I know he can get an answer.

I´m loving the work now that we are having more spiritual experiences, it´s so cool to see how the gospel can change people´s lives and I know that it is changing my life too. Thank you for all that you do. I hope you all have a great week and do everything that you know is right.

I love you
Elder Brady Allred