{It'S TouGH buT I LoVE iT!}

Hey fam!

Crazy week. I heard about the earthquake in Japan and was just worried about Matt over there. But i wasn`t too worried because i know God protects His missionaries. It`s good to know that they are all alright, but i`m sure the Palmer`s were going crazy! Matt finishes up his mish this month! It`s crazy how fast it has gone.

This was a really good week! We had about 16 people that told us they were going to go to church on Sunday. Well...none of them came haha. It was kind of just funny in the morning as we were walking around to pick people up. I told my comp that it was like the apostles at the start of the apostasy...one by one they were killed. But we got to church with a few less actives (cool story about that, hopefully i`ll remember to tell it while i`m writing) and i was just praying that someone would show up to church. This lady named Valentina showed up with her husband (member) and her kids! It was really cool! We`re excited for her and hoping she will progress. She`s a really humble woman and said she wants to get baptized. We just have to make sure she`s married.

So, the last active story. We were going to an appointment saturday night and we were pretty excited for the appointment (with Elizabeth and Abraham) but we saw an old couple sitting on their porch. I felt the small prompting to talk to them and so we headed over to contact them. Turns out the sister (Hermana Ortiz) is an inactive member and her husband is not a member. We went into their house and found out that she didn`t go to church because of a conflict with another member (classic story eh?) so we talked about forgiveness and invited her to church. Before agreeing to go to church...she asked us why we had stopped. She said that if we told her why we had stopped that she would go to church. We told her simply that we felt the need to talk to her because that`s what the Spirit said. She said the closing prayer and thanked God for sending us to her house. The next day, Sunday, there she was at church! It was a really great experience. We`ll see if we can start teaching her husband, Elias.

We also had a crazy experience at our house. One morning i was by the back door and i thought i heard something fall on the back patio. I went outside and there was a HUGE iguana in our backyard! It was gnarley! We think it fell in and it didn`t really have a way to get out. But one of our neighbors caught her and we`re pretty sure that they had a nice little barbecue hahaha. Oh and we saw a sloth yesterday on the telephone line...they call them ´lazy bears` in spanish. They move soooooo slow it was almost boring to watch it! But i`ll try and send some pictures of the iguana :)

Well fam i love you! Thanks for all your support. We had some tough situations with missionaries this week but everythings picking up. life is good in the mission. my companion is great and the work is moving. It`s tough but i love it!

Mucho love,

Elder Henrie