July 29, 2008

Hola,

Hello family, how are you doing? I just saw erynn´s blog and it makes me so happy to see the progress she's making! Congratulations Erynn, keep it up!

We had another great week in Catán, and I tell you this place is nuts. I would send pictures but my camera is hidden deeply within my luggage, it's just not something you bring out in catán. Mike and Jen sent me an awesome package and I´ve worn the mariners hat they sent every allowable moment.

In the area we are solidifying two baptisms for two weekends from now, one, Sonya, to complete an excellent family and the other, Brenda, a very faithful girl who goes with one of the ward´s grandmas!

We went on splits with the ward on Sunday and I went out with a rather timid brother named Hernan. Elder Pollock and I were behind on our weekly goals and we wanted to achieve them so we had a lot of work to do and we only had one hour till our meeting. So I talked to literally everyone I could see and one right after the other!

I think Hernan got a little flustered because we would literally finish talking to one guy, turn around and start talking to the next immediately. We also had to run/walk to be able to teach the lessons I wanted to within one hour. By the time we got back to the chapel for the meeting poor hernan was sweating and almost exhausted.

I felt young =) and thought, "you still got it, old stevo".

Yes.... That night the meeting went excellent! We organized the before unorganized ward missionary efforts. We called new ward missionaries, put them in companionships and assigned them families and goals for contacts and references. It felt so productive as the ward was rather stagnant when it came to missionary work. We will see how it turns out. We called in Project "Mission Catán III" with our ward mission leader as mission president.

Not too much else to report other than hollowed out horse carcasses, terrential downpours, and close call encounters with the "youth" of BA, but those are stories for another day. I love you all and thanks for your support... till the next time,

Elder Kelly
Catán III
Gonzalez Catán
MBAO