Letter #32











 Buenas tardes a todos! Sorry it's been so long since I've sent an email, it's been busy busy down here! Just a couple things that have been going on the past weeks🙌

1. The thing about this area and part of El Salvador is theres a lot of mountains, so basically doing anything is like hiking a mountian in a shirt and tie in 90 degree weather with 100% humidity, pretty awesome stuff💪

2. Had some fire district services,  we hauled a pile of gravel up some steep stairs, hauled bags of sand up some more stairs, and hauled some tin and beams to build a house up a mountain (I don't know why everyone chooses to live on the top of a mountain, we got some good excercise this transfer though😅)

3. Went to the beach!! Super pretty, played some football and some futbol with the district, it was a blast🔥

4. Saw some really cool miracles with progressing friends this transfer! We have 2 dates for the 23rd of August, and 3 more friends that are super close to a date, it's been amazing! 

5. The not so good: We had a chapel tour planned to help one of our friends come to church, it was going to be awesome.... at 6:00 in the morning cuz he supposedly didn't have any other time. So we get there all early and ready, have a member there ready to help and we call the guy, anddddd he doesn't end up coming, it kinda sucked.

6. Transfer news: After just 1 transfer here in Santo Tomas, I'm leaving to propio San Salvador, an area called Las Cañas as Zone Leader, it's going to be pretty crazy. I'm sad to be leaving after only 1 transfer, we had finally started to see some good progress, but it's alright. My new companion is Elder Lopez, we're going to work hard this transfer, it'll be sick.

Spiritual thought: Something that stuck out to me a lot this past transfer is how much of a blessing the gospel is. I was blessed with the opportunity to see people literally turning their lives around to follow Christ, I can testify that He is the answer and the change we need. I especially like Mosiah 2:41- I'll let you find it for yourselves, but I testify that we really can find unending happiness in the gospel!

That's about it! Sorry it's been so long, I'll try to get an email out more often. As always, let me know how everything is going for you guys! 

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