August 17 trio.

Almost done with my first transfer!! Wow, I just got out here and come wednesday I wont be the youngest in our District. Well... maybe. We'll see if anyone in my district/zone train. We should have something, from what I've heard we are getting something around 20 new missionaries in on wednesday. That's a lot! Our misson is pretty young, that's why my trainer trained on his 3rd transfer. He just barely hit his 6 month mark counting the two in the MTC. Oh well, he's still a really good trainer. Transferes is all anyone in the mission can talk about. We had a Korean Elder go home this week, so his companion has been with us since thursday night until wednesday morning when he meets his new Comp. That's the trio mentioned in the subject. I have learned a lot on how to teach and a lot with Spanish, (cause Elder Ortiz is from Mexico so we help him with English and he helps us) He gave me a lot of good Ideas for door approaches and 1st lessons. He also gave me things to be grateful for with my companion. I'm glad my companion doesn't have picky taste when it comes to food. Speaking of food I had Mariscos this week. That's seafood soup. Lets just say the baby Octupus suckers didn't have much of a taste but felt pretty cool on my tounge! I guess that's why latinos like hot sauce.
We got two new investigators this week! Two boys from the family's we've been working with. Anthony and Sergio. Sergio is 9 so he needs the missionary's to teach and Interview him. Anthony and only 8 so we still teach him but the bishop will interview him. They are really fun to teach. We taught Anthony the whole Plan of Salvation on Friday, thanks to Mom's puzzle ;) and we are going to try to find another time to teach Sergio. They have a bap. date for Sep, 6th. So that will be fun for them, getting baptized the same day as your cousin. Hopefully we can get there Grandpa the priesthood by then so we can have him do the baptizing.
We also have been working with a sister named Patricia. She is an old Investigator of Elder Amundsen and the only problem with setting a Bap. date with her is we want to get approval from her non-member husband first. We haven't taught her in a little bit but plan to do so this week.
Other then those three, we still have the Rosy 3. We had Mariscos with them this week and they actually brought up the divorce. They kinda had a discussion through us, saying "She thinks..." and "He thinks..." so they worked things out and told us they would call the number. It's so frustrating cause sometime they are doing things better then the members. She's already paying tithing and attends church every week. Dry member's are good but still DRY! You'd think we would get a lot more since the Spanish ward is almost as big as the ward back home. Our we're hoping to get changed because the building we go to now is far away and we have a branch that meets just outside our area, oh well Pres. said the that's not up to us, but he said he'd talk to our Stake President about it anyway. We had Pres. interviews this week me an my companion had to do it together cause the Pres. Blackburn had to leave, but that's what we asked him about.
We haven't had much time in our own area, well as much as we can while juggling two areas, but we spent an hour tracting on sunday, and the first two houses we knocked were the last two. We taught strong lessons at both and set up return appointments at both. Plus when we had Elder Ortiz we found a referral and set up a return appointment there. AWESOME!
We have a pretty interesting meeting tonight with Jubea, she wanted us to come back and explain the Book of Mormon, and she wanted to bring her Bible teacher.... we told her we're going to leave the moment we feel contention. She said she understood but still want us to come. Pray for us. I'm really kinda nervous but we'll see what the Spirit can do through us. Luckily we'll have Elder Ortiz with us, and he speaks perfect spanish.
Other then those the work is going well. We hope to see some real fruits of our labors soon, we've been working really hard this week and well continue to, there's no way for the work to progress if we don't. We have seen a lot of success of finding, now we need those we found to progress, feel the spirit and make the changes neccisary to obtain the fulness of the gospel and the full happiness that comes with it.
Sounded like everyone had a real good time at Family Reunion, I expect some sweet pictures soon, and if mom sends me the chord, maybe I can send some cool ones to you. Like me covered in flour from our "Flour-ball" war we had for a Zone activity today.
Spanish is wierd, I think I can understand a little better but then someone starts going off on something and I get nothing. I hope it improves soon, Elder Amundsen will probably leave next transfer and I could get someone who doesn't speak spanish. Luckily a lot of the people here learn a little English so I can barely get by.
That's gonna have to do it for now, we have a lot to do today. I love you all and love hearing from you. I hope all is going well with work and school and houses and jobs. I pray for you and thank you for your prayers, they really help. God can't give us what we need til we ask, and it helps to have that second witness. Orarles, Tengo que it, hasta proximo semana!!

Elder Groves (arbolitos is what Elder Ortiz calls me, it means a grove of trees)