Happy New Years! Feliz año a tí!

Hello World!

I dont even know what to say with such a crazy week and with so little time to talk! but bare with me cause my keyboard is dumb and I just gotta fly through this! haha

SO this week ELder Yost left on monday morning, it feels like that was 2 or 3 weeks ago now, but nope. I gave him one last hug and now he should be studying at good ole BYU· I do. haha I told him he was going to be married in 3 months, so we will see! haha But I joined up wiht Elder Petersen for the week and we did work! We switched from peña and Villa Alemana every other day and it was just a crazy week with lots to do!

We had a misson goal for everyone to make 140 contacts that week, the first time we had a goal for contacts in my mission. Clearly we do it, but you really gotta do it to get 140! haha By the end fo he week we had pretty good numbers together and still gt 112 contacts! Good solid contacts, n ot just to talk with the people but to truly try and help those that we talked with! We also taught some pretty good and powerful lessons! We actualy taught one yesterday and we just need his investigator to read and pray, he has he desire and he knows the things of the world will not help him, and he said a VERY sincere prayer to end and he was crying cause the spirit touched him. We could all feel it vry strongly! It was crazy! We also had a very good lesson with one of my investigators, he is 14 and wants to be baptized and is very smart! we taught him the plan of salvation and he was right there the whole time! it was cool cause you can really tell that he has been prepared, but we gotta get his whole family into it as well! His mom is hard to work with, but thats they way it goes!

Threre were so many miracles that we saw, time and time again! It was awesome! we also experienced some really hard things, one of which i shall explain a little. So we were visiting menos activos and this guy we passed by said we were atthe wrong house and he went back inside and slammed the door. not many people slam doors here! we waited a second and Elder Petersen wrang it again! and after a minute or two, he came out again, we got to talking and he said how he just got the ok for his name tobe removed from the church records and he didnt want anything to do with us. But we asked him why. And he said it wasnt important, but we truly started to just feel sad for him! We felt this love and only after about 5 minutes of talking. We came to find that he had been a stake president, a bishop, and more, but he said he dosent like the church because there are some people who dont live the way we teach. SO now he is going to leave and atke his family with him. He who once taught people ho to forgive and understand as a bisop and stake president, now has problems with the same thing he dealt with. How does that happen? he knows what he is doing, he knows how stupid it is! He knows that he willl not help himself to the slightest! and it just broke our hearts how he could do that. All we can do is pray, but let me be the first to say: members, treat others with kindness and love. This is the church of Christ. I know different areas of the world have different problems, but the gopel is forever the same! We can all testify to the truthfullness, but we must live by what we say! Thats it! Love the Lord, and do what is right!

On the plus side I got my new companion! *^drumrole* It shocked me so much! I am staying in peña Blanca, and my new comp is Elder Alvarez!!!!! How does that even work?!?! haha So the mission is lowering in numbers, so now Elder Alvarez and I have ALL of peña Blanca and we are SO EXCITED! its going to be so awesome, but a little weird with only 2 missionaries in the pension! its way big for only 2, like luxury land! hha I am so excited though! Its going to be so awesome! I cant wait to see how many baptisms we get this change, cause peña is ready to explode!

Well thats all that I have! I hope there isnt too many typos! I love you alll nd always remember your testimony!

Elder Marvin! :D