Week 80 Danli

Sounds like he has met some very nice people in Danli.  He sent a few pictures of what these wood carvings look like and they are very nice.  Not sure how they would get home to us though.........we'll see as it gets closer.  I truly think he enjoys his time and has mixed feelings about what coming home will mean to him.

Hola Querida Familia,
As for the wooded temple things they are like 150. So they will have your guys name, date of sealing, Holiness to the Lord, and the picture of the Salt Lake Temple. You guys were married in the Salt Lake temple right?? Also Emily and Kyle want one?? Then I was thinking about getting one that is super sweet which is like 200. The size of them are like kind of the size of the Mesa Temple picture that we have or bigger. Also I will look into the applications for my GPA and stuff. I am trying to remember the username and password. But I am excited to apply for college again. What is Chelsey going to study?? I am sad that I didnt get to see her play at all!! But I am sure I will want to coach or something when I am married as a side job or something. Maybe my future and wife can do that later on in our lives. I willl think of ideas for that gift thing for Santa and also the package. I still cant believe how fast time is flying by right now!!!! Its absolutely incredible and I am trying to enjoy every moment that I can. 

Recently I have been talking to this excommunicated member that is super awesome is coming back into full membership this March and he gives us some advice and counsel on how to become better missionaries. He is so cool, he is the guy that carves the wood stuff his name is Denis. He is one of my favorite members to talk to because he knows so much of the doctrine and was a big leader in the church until he fell hard in a transgression but now he is repenting and doing a lot better. I just love talking to him because he knows so much and even though he doesnt have the Holy Ghost with him he still has a light of Christ which is super cool. That he still wants to come back. Investigators that we are teaching are Eduardo a young man that is seventeen and just is soo ready to be baptized. He is super smart and wants to become a member and then go on a mission so we are hoping to baptize him in November. Also another family that we could baptize also  at the end of the November. The wifes name is Norma and the husband Alfonso. Norma wants to go to church but the husband we are not sure because we havent met him yet. We still continue to keep looking and I feel like we can do more and I need to do more so I am going to keep looking for more. At times I feel like I stilll have a lot to learn still in my mission and after because everything is going by soo fast. I still dont have any regrets in my mission but I still want to keep working until I am officially done. I am going to be super sad leaving this place!! As the zone is doing okay not the best we didnt do to well as a zone. I figure that the things that we are still doing in the zone are not working so I want to try something more different now because I am not seeing any success in what we are doing. I feel like we need to use members more to help us out in the work and also for the temple opening so we can get the work of the Lord going. The stake is really down and they dont seem to have the ganas to work with us and help us out because using our own efforts doesnt work all of the time. So we are going to be meeting with the ward leaders more and the stake president so we can be on the same page. I figure this willl help the work of the Lord and the animo of the members. At times i just feel tired and exhausted dealing with missionaries but something keeps me going because I have to do it because I need to do it. I just got to keep pushing on until I cant no more. This week will be good because we have a meeting with President again with the ZLs. I am excited to see what he is going to talk about. Then next week is Zone Conference for the mission so we will see what President says to us. Well I have nothing else to say and thanks for your letters and love. I really do appreciate it. I love you all and I hope that all goes well for you all. Take care. 

Tu Hijo,
Elder Hall