Buenos Dias

Buenos dias,

News from the mission front, we have steadily been finding more investigators and are going to be giving baptismal dates out to a few tonight, we're praying that everything goes well. We also are going to be doing some service for a ward member who is moving on Saturday so we'll be helping him with that all morning. That'll be fun. Yesterday we had a really great day. We decided that we were going to try to get in 3 lessons that day (1 member present and 2 others) and in actuality we ended up having 4, 2 with a member present. In our area that's really good, it actually is better than most of last week put together. Que mas? This week we're going to have a power week, which is to say that all of the missionaries in my district are trying to put everything into this week, as if this one week were our entire mission. That's going really well and the amount of energy from the district and especially my companion are refreshing, because I feel like the dynamics of the last district I had seemed a little more... satisfied? I would say stagnant but that has a bad connotation and they are all really great missionaries, they just were satisfied with how things were going. It seems like there has been a new breath of air here though and things are changing. We're trying new things and working really hard, and that's the way a mission should be.

My Spanish is coming along nicely and I'm feeling more comfortable in speaking it now. I don't have to hesitate and think as much. I would like to speak more Spanish in our companionship, but he prefers English, so we find a middle ground. But for me I'm trying to understand it more and more and learn the ins and outs of the language. It's hard because just like English there are some rules that a lot of the speakers don't know exist. Being as my companion has always spoken it, when I ask him about how to use something in the subjunctive form, he looks at me funny and tells me to just say it, because he didn't learn it by rules, he learned it by hearing it and doing it all how it came naturally. But by listening to him and talking with him I'm learning how to say more correctly.

As I said, today we'll be teaching Silvia and her kids, and we are planning on giving them a baptismal date. We're also thinking of giving one to another investigator later this week. We're praying and we feel right about doing it tonight. With God's help hopefully all will go smoothly, and if not, He has a plan for what happens.

Hopefully everyone will be getting letters from me in the next few days. Also, just wanted to see if you guys gave those French test books to Meadsy? He'll be wishing he had read up once he gets to the MTC if he hasn't already.

Yeah so really everything is going great, I'm feeling good, the work is going strong, my companion is cool. Exciting things are happening everywhere.

I love you all a lot and I know that you are all being watched over by a loving Father who wants nothing more than to guide us and help us. All we have to do is ask Him for it and be willing to do our part. I know Christ suffered alone so that we don't have to and He will always be there to support and succor us through our trials. I know that this is the work of God, and as prophecied in ancient times it is going forth to the four corners of the world and the missionaries are the means of doing it. I'm excited for so many of my friends who are about to become involved in this "marvelous work and a wonder". It has been a great blessing in my life to be working with the Hispanic community here and I'm very happy with the changes that I have felt grow within myself and the changes which are taking place in the lives of many who are coming closer to the Gospel all around the world. I bear testimony that this Gospel is truth, and that there is no other name given nor means by which man can enter into the rest of our God except through Jesus Christ and His restored Gospel.

Con Amor,

Elder Jordan Green.