April 19th: Hola!

I know I said last week that the weather was rain about once a week, but that same day it rained really hard for a couple hours, then again the day after and the day after that... There are many people 'resfriado' (with a cold) due to the change of weather, but I am doing just fine. The weather video clip is interesting from about the part at 11 seconds to 13 seconds... This week I completed for the first time the weekly goal of 140 contacts (where we introduce ourselves, talk a bit about the gospel, and then try to leave them with a little piece of paper with information on it) so that was pretty cool. But we still aren't seeing much progress with our investigators... One accepted a baptismal date but still hasn't arrived at church enough times to be baptized...But we are always visiting different people, and looking for new people (and families) to teach... My companion, Elder Cruz is pretty funny and fun to be with, but I have to take on a bit more responsibility with him. He has 19 months in the mission and is pretty trunky... But we work hard, so I am having a good time working with him. In the scritpures I just finished second Nephi. I and also in chap. 13 of Jesus the Christ (by James E. Talmage), which I love reading. I feel like I am progressing, and the time seems to go by super fast and pretty slow at the same time. I am eating lots of rice, beans, chicken, from the food the members give. I really like the fried 'platanos,' which are related to bananas but might not be plantains in English, I'm not sure. I love you all tons, keep reading the scriptures every day! Love, Elder Niendorf