Brett-February 17, 2009

Hey everybody, well yesterday was president's day so the library was closed and I know everybody is anxious to find out where I'm at right now. Sorry you had to wait an extra day. I'm in San Angelo Texas. Its way awesome here!! San Angelo is definitely the biggest city that I've been in yet. I'm still having trouble finding my way around town. We're in a Spanish branch and we only teach people that speak Spanish. Its awesome!! My Spanish is going to improve so much here. I haven't even been here a week but I've already had to translate for a funeral and sacrament meeting. I was way scared but I think I did a pretty good job. I'm for sure going to have to start studying Spanish a lot more than I have been. Well the apartment that we are living in is pretty small...No I take that back its REALLY small. I'm over it though. I've got a way soft mattress(definitely the best bed I've slept on in almost a year) and we've got a bench press in our apartment. Our apartment is actually the back of a member's home. It's way tiny but she's a really nice lady. My new comp is Elder Nielsen from Riverton, UT. He's way cool. He flew out on the plane to Lubbock with me as an English missionary but after his first transfer they made him a Spanish missionary. So he's only one transfer behind me. He's about 6 ft 260 lbs...he's a big dude. But he likes to work out in the morning with me and we've gone running 3 times already. This transfer is going to be a blast. There are six other missionaries here in San Angelo and P-days are way fun, we played some good basketball yesterday. Well as for missionary work here, we cover the whole city because we're Spanish speaking so we're still in a car but we're expected to ride our bikes for a couple hours a day. As of right now we don't have really any progressing investigators. We've definitely got our work cut out for us. But we met a sweet less-active family on Sunday night. They've got 5 kids, 3 of which are baptismal age, and only two of the three have been baptized. We're gonna work with them and get them re-activated and get her baptized. Other than that we don't have a whole lot going. We're going to have to knock on a lot of doors in the upcoming weeks but we're going to turn things around here. Well on Friday I will have been out here for a year. I can't believe how fast its going. No more regrets though, it's time to DO WORK!! I'm half way there and I don't want to come back with any regrets or think that I could have worked harder. Well the church is true. My testimony is growing each and every day as we talk with people and hear their opinions and beliefs, some of which are a little bit more out there than others. But it reaffirms to me how perfect the church really is and how much God truly loves us and truly wants us to be happy. I love y'all and hope everything's good back home. Have a great week.
Elder Harber