june 20th

Hollla!!

Well I have some big news this week!!! Okay, get ready, get on your seat belts everyone for a big ride!! So this week we got some great news from Benito.  His papers are in and ready to go!! His meeting went great he said and he has his second and final meeting on August 17th I believe.  After that he can get married!! So during Priesthood he announced that he was going to get baptized on the 18th of August, the day after his wedding!! AHHH!! I was so excited for him.  He really wants to be baptized.  He has literally told me every time I´ve seen him. :)  I love that guy.  Diana is doing great as well.  She has told me so many times that she is so thankful for us and for everything that we have done for them.  Benito wasn´t always so willing.  He was actually against the church for awhile.  Then one day it just clicked.  I am not sure what happened, but I am glad it did.  

We are still in the finding stage.  We have been for this whole transfer, but it has to be done.  The good thing is that God has blessed us:)  Well as you all know that we had this American BBQ on Saturday.  Well that day was very rough.  We ran out of time on our phone so we were going to internet cafés to use a phone and ahh it was just stressful.  Well we get a call from Fernando, our missionary leader.  He told us that only today that the All Beef patties at Lidl(like a walmart) were on sale, only today.  We were going to get 120, but he got 150 for about 30euros.  What a blessing.  We was able to buy more food for this event.  Such a blessing.  that night, we start up a little late, but that´s fine, latinos are always at least 20min late.  We get started and it is seeming a little low on the people, I only counted 80.  Throughout the night I was praying my heart our for a miracle.  At the end of the night we had about 150-160 people show up.  We ran out of hamburger patties and we also bought 120 hot dogs, we ran out of those too.  Everyone got something so that was a blessing.  Everyone loved the water activities, the tour or the church, and the food.  The members brought their friends and everyone had a lot of fun.  At the end of the night, we had about 15-20 member referrals.  From that, we now have a family.  Which we have been praying for for about 2 months.  I am so glad that everything went well.  I have learned from this that it´s all in Gods time, not ours.  I was wanting to get a family now, not then.  I was wanting blessings now, not later.  It just was a great activity that I will be doing a lot over my mission.  We split up the referrals will the hermanas in our ward.  We had about the same so we each have about 8 referrals. 

Well, that night we got back late.  I told our zone leader that we would be, and he was fine with it because he was there as well :P we had to talk to everyone and get numbers of non members.  Well I got to bed at about 12:30.  Thankfulllly the next day was a Sunday.  Well I woke up the next morning feeling like a truck hit me.  I said a quick prayer "Heavanly Father, can I just sleep in 10mins, just this once, I am so tired, Amen."  The words came very quickly "¿What, you don´t think I can keep you up?"  I feel those might have been me thinking, but I took it is as a spiritual prompting to get up out of bed.  That whole day I was great, I had the energy to work and get a lot done. :) Thank you Heavenly Father!  

On the food side, nothing really bad, just bad cooking.  We had fish soup.  Right before we ate it she said, it´s good, but just watch our for the bones.  Just to let you know, when I hit a bone, I am out of the race.  I hate that feeling of a bone in my mouth, but I got through.  Then she gave us a plate of rice and some fish with this sauce.  It was pretty nasty, she said again, watch out for the bones.  Luckily I had a good cut and didn´t have a lot, Elder Woodbury on the other hand had a lot of bones. :P  

One awsome story I have to share with you all.  So we get to the metro and we just missed it.  We had to wait 4mins and we were already late to an appointment.  Well we get there about 10min late.  On the way back it happens again.  I get off from the stairs and sprint to the door.  The door is shutting and I do not want to be late again to an appointment. So I stuck my hands in the door and yes I used my super human strength and spread the door apart so me and Elder Woodbury could get in. :)  Everyone on  the metro just looked at me.  I saw one guy give me a thumbs up :) Yes I felt pretty special at that moment.  

I love you all so much and I am so glad that Mandy and Baby Kellan are doing great!! I love you all so so much and think of you often!  I hope you all have a good week!  President leaves this next week!  I have a feeling that this new President is going to be changing a lot around.  But I don´t know till he comes :p I love you all so much!!!

Love,

Elder Alex Laubaugh aka The Hulk (Benito gave me that name:))

June 13th

Hello All!

How is everything going out there!?!?! I saw that Mandy had her baby and David was there for everything! That is such a great blessing!! I am so excited for you Mandy and David!!  Well I just want you all to know, that this week was good, but also very hard on me.  On the investigator side, Susi dropped us.  We have been calling her for a good week and a half and she doesn´t answer.  It is really sad, I really thought she was going to change.  We had a member call her and she answered.  She said she was just busy.  It´s fine, it´s life and people have their agency. 

On the other end, Benito is doing great! They had a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) on monday and it was great! We taught it just to show them how to do it.  It was a great time and the spirit was so strong.  Benito is going today to get his papers from where he was born in Spain.  I forget where, but he has his meeting in 2 days! I can honestly say that I love that family so much.  They are the best, even through the toughest times, they still keep a smile on their faces.  They might be kicked out of their piso.  We still aren´t sure why, but times are hard for them.  Hopefully the Ward can help them out as best as they can. Last friday, Elder Woodbury and I took them to the Temple.  I love going to the Temple.  The feeling of peace is amazing there.  We were in a rush to get there, the baby is crying, Arturo is yelling.  Everything was just all crazy.  When we entered the grounds, the Baby was happy, Arturo was fine, and things just slowed down.  The feeling of the spirit was so strong, they of course loved seeing the temple and being with us.  

Our other investigators are doing well, some are slowing down, others are right on their way.  We just have to keep on going.  

In other news, my talk was great.  I used Elder Nelsons talk from General Conference back in 2010.  I did mine on how the members can help, and how we can all be missionaries, not just the ones that are called.  It was great, I put in how we have an activity on saturday and the goal is for each family to have at least 1 non member friend or family member present.  I hope that they can do that.  After the talk a lot of people were saying that my spanish was a lot better and my vocab was a lot larger.  It was really nice to hear that.  It´s kinda funny, when we are contacting people often say to elder Woodbury that his spanish is great.... then they just look at me.  It´s funny.  I get a good laugh and just try harder to get this language down.  

Well I would like to say I have had a great week for gross food stories!  First off, I made medio dia meal this past saturday. It was very good. We had steak, grilled onions, and mashed potatos.  mmmmm that was good.  ON the flipp side we had a nasty dinner with some members.  Before she said, I´m not sure if your going to like this... but I made it anyways.  Ohhh no.  She said that it is called Leather and potatos.  Ohh no again.  She brings out this pan full of grease and little chunck of I don´t know what.  Well they put a bunch of rice and this stuff on.  I took a bite and it´s all slimmy and weird.  Well hold your breath.  It was pig skin and potatoes.  And yes I had 2 plates :(  the second was a lot smaller. The potatos were good, but it was the eating the pig skin that killed me.  It was just nasty!!!

I would like to thank you mom for what a great letter I got from you. I love that talk by Elder Cook.  His daughter is in The next zone over.  She is super nice.  I have been looking up a lot this past transfer.  Life here is just getting hard.  The work is doing well, but it´s the visits where they don´t want anything to do with you after you´ve taught them for a month that kill me.  Well it´s the mission life.  I have learned to lean on my Savior more during those times in my weeks.  Well I also want to thank dad for that great letter and that great picture of his new lawn mower.  Man that must be a beast to drive :)

thank you so much for everything!! :) I love you so much and this past week I have been having great experiences that I can share later on.  The Lord has blessed us a lot and I am so thankful for that.  We just finished a fast for baptisms today.  It was great at the end.  I felt so much more better.  I felt so much more peace and closer to my Father in Heaven after that.  I know that he will bless us, just in his time.  

I love you all so much and I hope that you all are having a great time with the new Baby!!!

Love your favorite brother and Son in Spain!!

Elder Alex Laubaugh!!

june 6th

Well Hello!! This week has been so crazy!! I have to tell you though, it has been really long and rough.  I just have had a lot of experiences this week that have helped me a lot.  It was really neat.  I got a letter from dad a couple weeks ago saying drink deeply - fill up that spiritual resevoir.  I can tell you that I have been.  Some things have really helped me grow this week and for the rest of my mission. 

One experience is with an investigator Janet.  She has a Spanish husband and she is meeting with us at her work, so he doesn´t know.  He is really against everything.  Our lesson was on the plan of salvation and during the lesson, she stops me and Elder Woodbury and says "Do you really believe this is true? Do you really know?"  I was taken back because to be honest, I´ve never gotten that question before on my mission.   I spoke up saying yes I do, I know for a fact that this is true.  I told her that I knew that the Plan God has for us is perfect, there is nothing wrong with it.  I went on with more of my testimony of the Plan of Salvation.  But just that night I was reflecting on my day and that experience just really hit me hard.  The second story is about the Book of Mormon.  Everyday I testify that this book is true and has answers for all of our questions, if we just read it, pray about it, and ask God if it is true.  One study day I was reading in Helaman.  Something just hit me like a rock to the head.  Just something very strong came over me.  I had a feeling to pray.  I wasn´t sure why, but I did.  During that prayer just the feeling of how blessed I was to have this book, In my hands, right at that moment.  After that when I express my testimony about it, just this joy comes over me, I feel like I am on cloud nine.  

That leads into my last story.  We have this great investigator Herling. He is Dominican and sometimes they are wishy washy, but I tell you what, He isn´t.  :)  Yesterday actually, we were watching the Joseph Smith movie with him. It is a short 20min video about the Restoration.  At the part when the first vision happens, he said he feels something strange, like a shiver down he back.  After the movie was over we asked him how he felt.  Our member there did as well.  He just looks at us, and just starts to cry.  The joy that he now knows just hit him like a brick.  He was saying that he felt different.  I told him that I know how he feels exactly:)  Right after telling him that that was the Spirit we asked him about this and that, then I had the prompting to ask him to prepare himself for baptism.  Elder Woodbury had the same prompting and asked him.  He was so happy that we asked, he said yes, a firm yes.  He said he would do whatever he needs to do:)  The funny thing is. Herling lifts... a lot.  Like he is big, short but very wide.  He could punch through me if he wanted.  Just seeing him cry and having this joy just made me feel so happy.

  

Well, those were just some of the experiences that I had this week. Well I just want to say that I have a food story.  Okay, so we were at our mission leaders home for lunch.  He puts on our plates, some nice yam, potato, and onion mix.  Very good, but then he puts on these short ribs.  With a good 1/2inch thick piece of fat on it.  Of course I get the biggest ones and are just filled with fat.  I am sad to say, I ate a good chunck of fat from both, I couldn´t get all of that down, but the other sad part is that there wasn´t a lot of meat on them.  :( So I had a good fatty ribs for lunch :/  

Well this week was good.  We had a really good pday also.  We went to the GoKart Track and raced!! AHHH YEAHHH!!! And yes this was allowed.  The AP´s asked president and he said it okay to do that.  This wasn´t the Rinky Dink cars, these were for rrreal gokarts.  The nice ones that can take a sharp turn.  Well we went on and they make us put on jump suits and helments, the full deal here. Well I was in the first spot, I thought this was going to be a slow car.  Ohhh how I was wrong.  We were flying!! I was a little too big for the car, but I was still flying by people and drifting, all that stuff.  I believe the fastest I got was a good 40mph on that bad boy :) hahah How cool is that!! Yeah it was awesome.  the track was really nice too, It wasn´t long, just a lot of turns:)  Well everything was good, it was a long week though.  A lot of good experiences that really helped me out, but at the same time, just a long week.  It was rough, hard, and I believe it was a good 100º out a couple of days, but at the end of the day, I could say I put my best work in.  I love you all so much and I hope that all is going well.  I have been praying that Mandy will have her baby!! I love you all!!

Love,

Elder Alex Laubaugh  (lobo):)  Love you all so much!! 

May 30th letter :)

What a week it has been!! Wow! Just to let you all know, I was not transferd! That is a great blessing for me.  I didn't want to leave.  We are doing great in B9.  People are still the same way, but we have some new investigators and some great progressive Investigators.  Well On the Investigator side.  Benito and Diana are doing great!! Ahh I feel so blessed to teach them every week.  They are so amazing.  They read together, pray together and they do personal prayer.  They just are so amazing.  The great thing is, is that they have their papers.  So this means they can set up a meeting  for their wedding.  Then another to get it all finalized.  So hopefully this or next transfer they will be getting married.  They have everything all set up for his baptism.  Ahh i just can't get over him.


Well a little story.  Remember when I wrote how Diana had a dream about a black shadow adn how it entered into their new piso mate.  Well that dream was real.  Just this past couple of weeks their piso mate went crazy.  She has been picking fights with them, cussing at them, just creating a really hard time for the whole family.  So they are kicking her out.  The Police came over and all this stuff happened so now she is going today or tomorrow.  They now are getting a new piso mate so that is a great blessing for them.  


Well our other investigators are doing well.  Amanda is still hard to meet with.  She works a ton, but she still reads, comes to church, and prays.  We just can't meet with her.  We try to meet after church but she just doesn't have time.  Which is sad, she is really good.  All the rest are doing good.  We have some new investigators so that is very good.  It was a great blessing this week.  We have been contacting a lot and the Lord has blessed us with a great new group to teach. 

 Well we have a little activity that we are planning.  It is an American BBQ.  Elder Woodbury and I thought about it then watched the District episode about them doing the same thing.  We are going with it and the Bishop and President have both said yes for it.  They feel that will be a great idea to get people together and get their friends together.  This is a great way to get our name out and get some new Investigators.  I hope all goes well!  Well also in new news, I have a talk on the 10.  It is of course about missionary work. I have been preparing it for about a week now and have a lot of good notes for it.  If you have anything that would be good, please send it to me.  

Well on the story side, we were walking back to the piso from an appointment.  We get stopped by a man and he started saying that we were wrong.  We just were not right about anything and that we should be baptized in another church because we were wrong. hahah ohhh people of spain.  Well that is about it on the story end..  Sorry no food storys... well I do have some, but it just of me eating way to much because the people do not know when to stop feeding you, even when you say you are full.  Well I love you all so much and I hope that all is well!!! I can´t wait to here from you all!!

Love your best man in Spain!!

Elder Alex Laubaugh

Alex's latest letter!

Hello all!! Well this week has been really good and a lot of work.  Sorry but this letter might be a little short.  We don´t have a lot of time because we went to the mission home which is a good hour away.  This was the last activity and maybe the last time I will get to see President and Hermana Watkins.  Well as I said, this week has been good and a lot of work.  We have been trying to get some new investigators.  Not everyone is like Amanda who stops you and asks you to come by.  Before I mention her more, I'll say a little about our other investigators.  Benito is doing great like always, but his baby got sick and Diana and Eron(the baby) had to go to the hospital.  It was a good expierence for both me and Diana.  I hadn't given a blessing in Spanish yet, just in English.  We, she asked me to do the anointing, so that was cool.  It went well and the spirit helped me remember the words in Spanish.  Susi is also doing good.  She is getting prepared for her baptism later in June.  Eliana is doing okay.  She has missed her baptismal date which was this weekend.  That is fine, she needed more time.  The same with Amanda, her baptism was this week and we still haven't met with her.  She works a lot and she finally had time!  But at the last minute she said she had work. 

 AHHH! Luis is doing great and getting ready to go to the temple and getting ready to recieve the Priesthood. He just looks so much happier than before.  Everyone else is doing well too.  I know that I have left some out but they are doing great.  Well this past week has been kinda long.  We didn't have that many lessons because everyone is at work or just doesn't have time for us which was a big pain.  But the good part is that we contacted a lot.  We had a lot of people listen to us... but not a lot of people that wanted to hear more.  The people who did are actually really good.  We have a lot of real numbers that people have given us and have some visits set up for the end of the week.  Well the awesome part is that we have some new investigators.  Some even went to church this past Sunday!  I will tell you more about them later.  Well, that is about it from this past week from working.  A lot of contacting.   

Yesterday I went on splits.  Elder Wilson is the Zone Leader so he went on splits with Elder Woodbury.  So it was me and Elder Johnson!  This was an amazing experience.  From just one day I saw that my Spanish isn't horrible like I thought it was.  It still needs a lot of work, but it is better than before.  I was understanding and speaking most everything.  It was so amazing to see how much I have progressed.  I am so glad that I had that experience yesterday.  It is sad to say, but I use Elder Woodbury as a crutch.  I just look at him to help me.  I couldn't do that with Elder Johnson.  He is in the same boat as I am.  So I had to pray a lot and just hope that the gift of tongues kicks in.  And I tell you what, it really did.  The Lord helped me out a lot.  We had 2 lessons that went well and we also had 6 received contacts so that was good too.  People said after I said that my Spanish isn't that good that they could understand me and I was doing fine.  That felt good.  Well on the food end, I had Chufa.  It is only grown in Valencia.  It is a small little fruit that they smoosh to make like a milk.  It tastes like it but it is a little bit of a sweet taste to it.  Well that is about it on my end.  I love you all so much and the Lord has been blessing me a lot this past week.  I feel all of your prayers and I look at that North Star every night, well at least the stars at night and I think of you all!  I love you and I am lighting up Spain!!

Love,

Elder Alex Laubaugh

letter after mother's day :)

Hello all!

 

Well this week has been so so good! First off I would like to say that Spain is starting to show its true self.  The past couple of weeks have been kind of rainy and just a little bit to cold.  Well just this past week, it got hot!!  We saw a good 37ºC during the down part of the day! I don´t even know how hot it was during the hot part!  All is well here, I am doing well and getting a lot of work done. 

The Lord has really blessed us this past week.  Our investigators are starting to get a little bit harder to meet with.  They all have work, and they all work a lot, so it is really hard some weeks to meet with them.  Amanda, well is starting to push us away.  Which is really sad.  She has two kids who are members and most of her family are members.  She has all this going on, and she doesn´t have time to meet with us.  We called her up the other day, and was kind of mad at us for stoppping by to say hi and see if  she was there, well she wasn´t.  Her brother was at the door and told her that we stopped by to say hi.  He said that she was at the park.... sooo we went to the park too.  We didn´t find her, but she has been getting really sassy and saying that she has no time and is really tired.  I know that she is tired, but if she wants to get baptized, she has to meet with us so we can teach her.  Well enough of that.  She is good, but just 

Luís was just baptized on this past saturday! He was so ready and so so happy.  He loves us so much, he said that we could come over any time we wanted to to  just have a little talk, have some lunch with them, any time.  He is so funny, he has told us that at least 20 times over the past 2 weeks.  Eliana is doing well too, we talked with her about what we wanted for her and what we needed for her to do.  She was very understandable and really wants to make a change.  The bad part is just like Amanda, she works a lot.  She also is studying a lot as well.  But she has made time for us to come over and visit for a little bit.  We don´t think that she will make her Fecha, but she has said that she would like a little more time.  So we pray that she can make her Fecha for the end of this month.  Susi is also doing well.  She also works a lot.  She is getting really scared because she was saying that she might get fired.  She said that the next week is going to be really packed full of work and seeing if she will have a job or not.  We hope she can keep her job and just calm down a bit.  We shall see what happens at the end of this week.  Well Benito, is being Benito.  He is so good and just loves life.  Even though he has no work, he still loves life.  He is a spaniard and he used to act like one too.  Just being against anything that isn´t catholic.  Well now he is changed and has a new view of life.  We are still waiting to see when they will get married, the papers are in and now we wait. 

Now it is story time :)  This past week we had a lesson with Gelimber.  He is a non member but he is married to a member, so he has always had some church in his life.  He has come to church and talked with the missionaries before.  No one could really get him to do anything.  He is really lazy and just sits at home, goes to work, and watches soccer.  Well this past week I recieved a box in the mail from Uncle Dave.  He wrote a great letter about 3 things to always do for the rest of your life.  Read at least 1 verse of scripture in the Book Of Mormon,  Pray, and keep Jesus Christ as your best friend.  Well a couple sundays ago his new little baby was blessed.  He said that he felt a very good feeling of peace and just felt really good after that.  Well when we were in this lesson, we were stressing the importance of reading your scriptures.  He says he doesn´t have time and just doesn´t want to.  A thought of that letter came into my mind about reading one verse.  Well I promised him that he would have that same feeling if he read at least one verse a day.  Just one.  I told him this was very easy, which it is.  Just one simple verse. Then he could do anything.  If he had time then he should read more, but just try to read one.  He seemed really happy about that.  He said that he would read, so we shall see what happens when we meet with him again. 

Today we went to the Temple.  It was a great time and much needed.  I missed going to the Temple every week in the MTC.  We get to go Every 5th week if you are in the Madrid zones.  After the Temple we went to Gran Via to go eat at Fresco.  It is a great buffet place and is only about 10 euros.  After Elder Woodbury and I went and walked around.  We went to a mall and just walked around.  Well we found ourselfs in the tie section:)  And yes I bought a tie.  I wanted to get a new one but never really found a nice one.  Ties here are skinny and just do not look good on me.  So when I found a good looking tie I bought it :) 

Well a little food story.  As I have said food here is really good. Well also it can be a little bit strange.  Last week we had squid cooked in its own ink.  It was okay, not the best dish I have had, but it was good.  The member that cooked us it was so happy that we liked it and she asked if we wanted more.  I quickly said I was full and couldn´t eat another bite.  So luckily I didn´t get seconds on that dish.  Well this past Monday we ate at Luís´s house.  Well the first course was a Spain favorite! We hade cooked mussels(not sure how to spell that... opps!) and it was topped with a salsa.  It was more of a lemon salsa, it is really good and is just like salsa in the US.. but more of a lemon taste.  Then for the Second course we had a nice Salmon fillet with onions and a lot of potatoes :) It was soo good! :) 

Well I would like to say that our call was great! I loved talking with you and seeing how everyone was doing.  It was good to see you Jana:)  It was soo  good to talk to all the family.  It was a much needed call:) I love you all and I miss you all so much.  We have been working hard over here.  It is soo good to get all of your letters :) I love you all!!!!

 

Love your Elder in Spain,

 

Elder Alex Laubaugh

another great week

Well this week has been amazing!  Many prayers were said and many prayers were answerd.  Well this week, Antonio was baptized:)  He was so happy! Might I add, he is a very short man.  Around 5'4" tops.  So i was towering over him in the photos.  I have some good ones of him and the Elders:)  He was so happy.  After everything he came up to me and gave me a hug, then Elder Woodbury and said thank you.  He is such a nice guy:)  Well on the topic of Baptism, Luis is going to be baptized this week! 4 Weeks after we met him.  He was so ready when he met us.  He is so happy, and he seems so much happier than before.  He has the gospel now and I am so glad that I was able to give him it.  


On sad news though.. Andrea was pregnat.  Luis called us and said that they lost the Baby and it is going to be really rough for them.  Luckly they turned to the Conference talks and not something else.  They read Elder Packers talk and said they had found their answer in it. They said their faith was down a bit till that point.  So this was so good that they this experience.  Yes it is very sad, but he was saying that he feels so better right now and he feels it was supposed to happen.  


Well Amanda is doing good.  She works a ton so we can´t really get to her, but she has been coming to church and doing all the things that she needs to do, we just can´t get a time to visit her.  So we just need to wait a little bit for her.  Eliana is doing amazing. She came to church for the first time.  Usually investigators come dress down, but she dressed up and wore her nice dress and everything. She said she really liked it.  She also has a fecha and is progressing really well.  Susi is also doing great! She now has a fecha.  She still has a lot of doubts but she is working on them.  She reads the Book of Mormon all the time.  She was telling us that she has recieved a lot of answers to her problems from the chapters we have given her.  Diana and Benito are being golden as always.  They are going to here back from the Marrige place soon, so we shall see when they can get married.  He is so funny, He got mad because he couldn´t go home teaching and he couldn´t go to the temple with the youth.  He has been ready since the 3rd lesson we have taught him.  If only this marrige process didn´t take so long!  

Well this pday We went to SAGOVIA!! Look it up on the Web, yeah be jealous of me:)  It is a older city in spain.  It has a sweet castle that we got to go to the top off and see all of the city :) We also got to see a acuaduct.  I don´t know how to spell it.  I think I mixed it up with the spanish word:P well we also got to see their cathedral which is really beautiful on the Outside, we couldn´t go in though.  Well it was a fun pday and yes I have some great pictures of it all.  Well this week I had a really good lesson learned.  A thought came to my mind a little bit ago... Am I worried about the Number or the Person.  I looked back on my little time in the Mission and I could tell that I was worried about how many lessons we had and how many contacts and recieved we had.  I have been working on changing that.  This week we only had 13 lessons, but with that the Lord has blessed us a lot.  We have 5 new investigators to teach.  With the 89 contacts we had 20 recieved, and a couple new families that might be really good.  We don´t know yet because their lessons are later this week.  I have been trying to work on focusing on the person and or the family that we are teaching, instead of the number.  It has really helped me out, I still need a little bit of work and Elder Woodbury has been helping with that.  


I love you all so much and I hope all is well in The USA and Germany! I sure do miss you all.  Also the best time for me is around 4ish my time.  That is about 10 your time.  I hope that works out good for all of you, I know that is when jana is calling so I hope I can talk with her a little bit.  I might call a little bit later after 4.  We have a lunch appt with a member at 3 so we can be at the Locutorio by 4ish.  So i hope that is all good with all of you!! I love you so much!!

Love,

Elder Alex Lobo!!