yo soy un latino

fam. what up. so basically 3 hours after i emailed you last week we recieved a phone call and elder hilton had to leave haha and por this i recieved a new companion. elder lopez from argentina, buenos aires. so therefore i now live with elder miranda from panama (my buddy from the mtc) elder torres (my uncle in the mission) and now elder lopez i never speak english and am living the life of a latino haha. elder lopez is finishing his mission after this change as well, but he has some backproblems and for this he was sent up here he was in montevideo and they thought it would help him to be in a more relaxed enviorement such as la pedrera aka el campo. so yeah me and elder lopez get a long pretty good not gonna lie he is not the hardest worker out there and i kind of have to drag him around the day. it sucks cause elder hilton was super excited to work here and just wanted to shred it up but he left and now elder lopez knows he is going home and doesnt really have the mentality of elder hilton he doesnt really desire to meet the people here know the area cause he knows he is leaving. but bonus he is a latino which means i speak spanish all day long which helps me aton haha however elder lopez is going to byu after the mission and doing a intensive english class or something and wants to learn english really bad so i am helping him with his english at the same time he is helping me with my spanish so it works right hand in hand. baptisms went very good we had a good turnout from the ward and it was pretty incredible to see the look on the dads face. hno santana is the guy i told you about on the phone on christmas that cant read and collects bottles for a living. we reactivated him my first week here and it was his kids we baptized. connecting families. what an amazing work. i have never fully recognized the blessings on the family this gospel has until i saw the light in all of their eyes yesterday at church holy cow completely different people. but yeah so thats whats goin down here. i look forward to recieving the letter and the padded envelope from rybart. hope all is keeping busy at home and you all have no time to think about me cause the less you think of me the faster time goes haha i really feel like im getting lost in the work january flew by for me and im thinking each change and month will just keep passing faster and faster but yeah hope all is good at home. keep it krisp i love you all so much