Saludos!

Good afternoon everyone.
It's a nice bright sunny warm day in Illinois and I'm enjoying it to its fullest. This whole past week has just been awesome. Monday morning I woke up and saw the sunshine outside and realized how beautiful the day was going to be. I was so excited for life and I still am. That feeling just gets recharged each day as I wake up to another incredible, bright morning. We go exercise each morning and I just feel good. And I'm looking good too. On monday we went out to the beach to go do some contacting. That was a lot of fun! There were tons of hispanics and we talked to a bunch of them. They were really excited to find white guys that spoke their language so well. That and on Memorial Day it just has a really friendly, happy atmosphere around here. It's like the world was on vacation. We saw a member of the ward there named Braulio Ramirez. He's really cool. He was there with his son and his girlfriend. I really like the guy. So we talked to them, and they pointed out hispanics to us. We then went to pump our bikes so that we could bike to some old investigators cause we were out of miles. We plugged an air compressor into the car battery and started to pump the tires. Not only did the compressor not inflate anything, but the car battery COMPLETELY died. Not the "oh lets give 'er a jump and she'll be fine" type of dead, like the, "Holy crap she's DEAD!" type dead. So she got towed to PepBoys, which was closed, so we had to leave the car all night and get rides. We called up a member who we have family home evening with and we enjoyed a barbeque with his family. It was fun!

Then yesterday we got our car back and things went well that day, also a very hot day and very very humid. But today is very hot and not so humid and that feels nice. I still wake up feeling like I'm in the shower, but it's like the shower got turned down. The hispanics I know are loving the weather, but the humidity is pretty stifling to me. I love it though. Better than that dry crappy hot breathing-in-a-coffin feeling of summer in utah.

This past week I have really noticed the difference between when one puts his all into the work and when you don't. I felt like monday we were working harder than tuesday and we got discouraged tuesday. But I noticed that on monday we had many more blessings, much more happiness and the company of the spirit more strongly. So we're going to do our best to maintain that type of excitment all the time. I know this work is the work of our Savior. I know that it's what He wants me to do right now, and nothing will take me from the path of giving my all for these past 6 months. I love you all very much.

Con mucho amor,

Elder J. Green.