WOW, WHAT A WEEK!

Hola Familia,

Hey, how´s everything going? OK, first of all, I know, it´s Tuesday! I´m so sorry i´m writing late, yesterday is our Internet day, but our whole zone went to Antigua, so I didn´t get a chance to write! Can I just tell you how awesome Antigua is?

Thank you so much for all of your emails, they´re all awesome, and they help me a lot out here!

It sounds like you all are doing pretty well! Christopher is tearing it up in basketball, the girls are probably going CRAZY, and i´m sure he´s chilling with ALL of them right? Hang out with all of them Ricky! Keep working hard, and get healthy!

I love your language advice Dad, it´s true the more I use the language, the more I learn. Likewise, the less I speak, the less I learn. I´ve really been able to learn a lot. I bore my testimony in zone conference this week, and I´ve really learned that it´s the spirit that gives you the ability to speak, so when I have the spirit I can speak, but when not, it´s a lot harder.

Tanner, thanks a ton for your letter. It´s amazing the things that faith can bring about. Faith works wonders, and you showed your faith in praying for help! Faith is everything we need to work off of out here! When we have Faith, we can feel the spirit, and we remember that we truly are representatives of Jesus Christ, but first of all we are sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. It sounds like your basketball team is doing great too! Keep up the good work!

OK, I´ve been having computer problems, and I was planning on sending you a picture, but I can´t because my camera battery just died! You´ll never guess what the picture was of....

Well, Oscar was baptized! Everything went through, we had his interview and everything worked out great. When they came out of the interview I asked Oscar if he was ready! He said he was, and the zone leader said, ´´Oh he´s ready, and guess who´s going to baptize him? YOU!´´ Oscar decided he wanted me to baptize him! I can´t even describe what I felt when I heard the news So the baptism was on the 17th of January, and I did it! In spanish and everything, it was a little nerve wracking, but SO amazing.

I wish I could keep writing, but I only have 5 minutes left of time! So i´m going to go through really quick and type a few things that happened this week.

The BOLO Elder Lanham and I found in the street.... Yep we´re teaching him and he is accepting everything we teach and wants to come to church and EVERYTHING. Can you believe that? This is the guy that Elder Lanham took his beer and threw it.

This is for Uncle Nathan, we were teaching a guy, and he was CRAZY. As we were leaving his house he said, oh hey, here´s a lion! I looked over at a tub of water in his front room, and soaking in a tub of water was a Lion.... ha I´m not kidding, that was crazy.

I gave a girl a blessing in Spanish... that was hard. Like I say, the spirit is real and the gift of tonges works wonders.

Antigua made me homesick because it felt like a place we´d go with Grandpa Savage and Sherrie and the family, it´s so awesome, I want to go back! It´s beautiful.

Deidy and Estuardo are new investigators... They will probably be baptized soon.

Changes are this week... I think I might be leaving! No Idea, but i´m just starting to wonder!

I love you all so much, thanks for everything! Just know everything is awesome and I love it here!

See ya later

Elder Melville