I hope you guys really enjoyed the new year´s party and that you have some good goals set for the new year, both spiritual and temporal goals.  As long as we keep improving God will always be happy with us.

This week went pretty well.  Wednesday we went to the stake center for the District Class.  We learned some good stuff and then came back to get to work.  We went to an appointment with a less active sister, Rosa.  We got there and talked for a few minutes.  She asked us to give a blessing to her mom so we did.  Her mom is Catholic but
everyone else in her family are members.  We talked for a minute.  The Elders used to pass by their house all of the time and talk and eat, and take naps, dance, tell jokes, and all sorts of stuff.  But she said that they never drank Coke because that was a sin for them.  So they were a little bit of missionaries not all that focused on the
work, but they have a good relationship with the missionaries.

As we were talking, Rosa told us a story.  She said that she was fishing one day a few weeks ago.  It was a competition (She´s a competitive fisher) and she was not having any luck.  She said that she decided to say a prayer and ask God for some help.  She said she promised 2 things in the prayer.  1 She won´t tell us.  The other was that the next time she sees missionaries in the street she´ll invite them to dinner.  Not two days later, we come walking down the street with a strong impression to talk to her.  I guess God will get her to keep her
promise.

She did give us some fish for dinner so we went to take it to the house.  We saw the neighbor outside with a foot long rat that they had killed in their house.  It was kind of disgusting but really cool too.  He killed it with a long metal pole (about 2 feet long) by poking it really hard.  I guess you've got to do what you've got to do.

We went to put the food in the fridge.  But we didn´t have the keys. We lost the keys.  We searched but never found them with any of the members or in the stake center.  I guess they probably ended up with the taxi driver (and he really didn't like us all that much for trying to contact him during the ride) so the keys are long gone.

We climbed in the window the next day and all´s well that ends well cuz we got in and have all of the keys back now (we went to a locksmith to get a key for the lock, it was honestly pretty cheep).

So with all of that under our belt we got back to work.  We went with some old investigators Oscar and Sarai, to see what they think of the Church.  We got there and to our surprise Oscar has a job and they are planning on getting married now and are excited to get baptized.  They think that they´ll get married in March, but we're planning on hurrying that up a little bit more to do it in January.

I do have a blanket now.  I saw one sitting there in the grocery store today right in our path so I bought it.  I never thought to look for it so I guess God answered your prayers by putting it right in my path.

I come home next year.

I hope you have a good week and a good year.  Keep up the good work.

I love you
Elder Brady Allred