Letter from Rees

Hey everyone! How´s everything going? I hope all is well. So anyways, this week was great. It started out kinda slow but it got going. Saturday I got to baptize two people. A husband and a wife, Ricardo y Adriana. They were living together and not married, because she is pregnant, so we took them and got them married that morning, and then baptized them that night. It was amazing to feel the Spirit there so strongly. To see the smile and the happiness on their faces afterwards was amazing. You can just see the relief of all the sins, and a huge burden lifted off their shoulders. The Atonement is so amazing. Without it we´re nothing. And it´s so comforting to know that every Sunday we can have the same experience as we did in baptism. Anyways, besides that, we´ve just been teaching and working hard. Everyday we wake up and exercise, then do personal study, companionship study, and then language study. Then we´re on our way. We just plan who we need to visit each day and go, contacting along the way. It is very rare that we ever make it through a day according to schedule. Something always comes up. Someone has a problem, or we run into someone we didn´t plan on, or my companion has to stop at the chapel and take a dump. He eats so much stinkin chili that he has to go every hour. = ) It´s pretty funny because he says words in english so that people won´t understand him. We´ll be visiting someone and he´ll be like, ´´I have to crap´´. And they don´t understand him, but we just get up and leave as quickly as possible. = ) Luckily I haven´t had many problems yet. No major emergencies or anything. The toilets here are so weak that they clog almost everytime. So I don´t dare go at a member or investigators house. But ya, everything has been going good. The time is really starting to fly. I feel like I´ve been here a week. Is it going fast for you guys too? I never believed anyone when they said the time goes fast, but when you´re working hard and always busy, the time is gone before you know it. Well, I think that´s about it. I love you all and hope all is well. Tell everyone I say hi. Remember how blessed we are to be in this Gospel. One of the greatest gifts on earth is the gift of the Holy Ghost. I definitely took it for granted before the mission. We are promised so many blessings through the Spirit, and it can be an enormous help in our lives as long as we´re worthy. I love you all, and can´t wait to hear from you.