QUERIDA FAMILILA Y QUERIDOS AMIGOS O SEA A TODOS USTEDES!!! CÓMO LES VA?!?!?! Hey guys, how`re things. SAM`S IN JAPAN! :-D Thats different :-) Thats awesome that he`s understanding people already :-D Sounds like his trainer is cool too. Elder Villalobos, take care of my bro alright. My trainer was kind of an idiot so I hope the same doesn`t happen to Elder McConnell. But I already like you since you speak spanish :-D We got to hit it up when we get home :-D So things here in the other Los Angeles are doing great. President Maritnez challenged the entire mission to complete with every key indicator and we had a fantastic week. We really pushed ourselves to do it. We walked, talked, contacted, invited, challenged, laughed, got rejected, everything :-D Met a lot of people, lots of stories. Here are some. Throughout the week we pass this street where all the children say hi to us and we teach them occasionally. One of them we`re teaching in her house too, the Coni. We helping her to read and to pray and to feel the spirit. We asked her this week if she had been reading and she said ¡Sí! and we asked if she had been praying and she said ¡Sí! and we asked if she had felt something and she sad Ya we asked her how she had felt and she said Bien(well/fine) and paz(peace) and we were like ¨Thats the Spirit¨ And when we said it I felt it too. That is the spirit telling you that what you are doing is good and true. Love that. Something sad but cool. We had been visiting this mother and her daughter and teaching a little. One day we passed and the mother wasn`t there but her aunt and daughter were. The aunt and daughter saw us through the curtains and then dropped them. We waited a second because unless they tell us no we don`t go. A little while later the porch light turns on and they let us in. We chatted for a second and then headed out. Yesterday we get there and Laura, the mother, tells us that we can`t come over anymore. She said that the aunt and her husband told her that we were only going to confuse the daughter with our religion because she goes to a catholic school AND (and this is MY favorite part) that the other day MArtina the daughter had had a¨bad reaction¨when we came over. When she said that I thought ´´What? Was she possessed? Did she get sick? What happened?´´ She explains to us that when we had come over the other day that the aunt wanted nothing to do with us whatsoever but that Martina started to tell her loudly ´´Let them in Let them in, they`re friends, I want to listen´´ and the aunt couldn`t convince her otherwise so she let us in. THAT WAS THE BAD REACTION. I almost exploded. I felt like when Jesus told the apostles ´´suffer the children to come unto me´´. I felt good though that the spirit had touched Martina at least. Maybe in several years she will remember that. LAst thing. We got attacked by an Adventist family Saturday. They invited us in all nice and smiley without saying who they were or why but we like to go INTO peoples houses so we fell for it completely. They then spent the next hour and a half explaining how the sabbath is saturday and then invited us to REALLY read the scriptures to come to know the true way of Christ. I gave them a 9 for the information but a 3 with the presentation. WE explained to them how we were grateful for modern day prophets and the Book of Mormon since there have been so many changes in doctrines and the Bible. Omar, the father, tried to convince us that we should have the same distrust of the Book of Mormon since it is more ancient than the New testament and so that it would also have lost a lot of its truths through all the years and all the translations. IT felt REALLY good to explain to HIM that the Book of Mormon had ONE translation to english and ONE MORE to Spanish. Scoreboard BofM 2, Bible (number undetermined). How does that taste? Bitter? Hard to get down? :-D I love the Gospel. They invited us over next Saturday to talk about Mosiah 13 and Revelation 17 :-D Wish us luck. Thats it guys :-) Somebody figure out when sam can call home so we can plan that well. until the next, Mom Dad Sam Meri Grace and Sophie, I love you all and BE HAPPY!! Sincerely Elder JAmie McConnell