....a week full of miracles

Hola Familia,
Wow what a week, probably my favorite week since Ive arrived. I feel like the Lord has blessed me so much in my experience so far. With a great companion and a great area and Im strengthening my testimony every single day.

Well, this week was full of miracles. We found 16 new investigators. 3 families and a couple. 9 of them went to church. We reached all of our goals and we are pretty pumped about the upcoming weeks. Hopefully it will result in a bunch of baptisms! We are trying to shoot for 1 baptism this next weekend. We got some persuading to do, her name is Josefina and I think she wants to get baptized, but her husband is lame. The good thing is that he is out of town working for the next month so we think shell get baptized while hes gone haha.
but we will see what happens.
David y Paula finally got confirmed yesterday after 3 long weeks! They couldnt go the week after there baptism and then it was conference so that was cool that they finally got confirmed. Everyone loves them haha.
Lets see what else.... oh yesterday we got to take sacrament to a man named Alfonso in our branch and hes 83 and cant come to church. It was amazing. First of all it was like 45 minutes away. Our car that we were riding in barely got there because we had to take a dirt rode threw a bunch of creeks and basically climbed a mountain in it. But it was so worth it when we got there. He was the sweetest old man and was so grateful that we made it. He cant move out of his bed and his wife cant move him cause shes tiny so its a pretty hard situation, but they are so humble and we sang them Grand eres tu, how great thou art, and they were both crying. Its experiences like those that make me so happy to be here on a mission. There is so much work to do and so much we can do to help, all we have to do is show up. Heavenly Father really knows his children and Im so thankful to be an instrument in his hands.
Oh also, we had another sweet experience I think it was Wednesday. We got a referencia like 3 weeks ago, but we havent had time to check it so WEd. we finally did. I told Elder Obregon that we should check all our referencias instead of knocking doors so we did. (Elder Obregon is up for doing anything besides knocking doors haha) I really think it was revelation or something that gave us the idea to check em because when we got to the first one, there was a girl that was really sick and sweating and the family was all sitting around. They are basically dirt poor so they couldnt really do much to help her, but we had the opportunity to give her a blessing. Elder Obregon gave the most perfect blessing and we sang a hymn and shared a message about How other people might not know what they are feeling but our Savior does. We went back Friday and the girl (Mereya) was already doing a lot better. Her and her mom went to church on Sunday and they really enjoyed it. I think we will be able to baptize them in a few weeks!

Well, I just read Brads article of the newspaper. 5 touchdowns? What?! Who are you Bead? Oh, thats right, my lil bro! haha thats so awesome man, you have no idea how proud of you I am. Im jumping around in this lil internet cafe, absolutely pumped! Keep it up brotha...
I know as you continue to improve and work hard, everyone is gonna want you. Always remember whats important and dont let your head get too big haha, but know that i love you and im so proud of you!

Well family I gotta be finishing this up.... its Elder Obregons birthday today so we are going to eat at Hna Reynas house right now. (Shes basically my mom from mexico) and reina, in english, means queen, so i just call her queen mama de mexico. She thinks its funny and she swears shes going to visit me in utah someday. Apparently she knows someone in utah and i told her that im probably going to go back to school up there. So she said shes goin to visit.

Oh we also had a zone conference this last Thurs. President Nancollas is a stud! Oh and when we were there we had to take pills to kill all the bacteria or worms or whatever we might have so dont worry im healthy. haha I guess we do that every 6 months and then right before we leave for home. Oh, I also got the dearelder about daniels call and I got one from Robert Sirrine and one from Ali! Tell them all thanks and tell Dan im proud of him, he will love it in Oaxca or however you spell it!
Anyways, everythings going great, i still havent gotten sick or anything and im working hard and having fun! I know this is the work of the Lord and i know that as im obedient, I will be blessed. The church is true. God lives, he loves us and knows us and wants to bless us. Jesus Christ is our Savior and through him we can be limpio and pure. I know Joseph Smith is a prophet and restored the Church of Jesus Christ. I know Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God. I know the scriptures are AWESOME! I know familias pueden ser eternas (can be forever) And other than that I dont know a whole lot! The Church is True!

Con Amor,
Elder Greg Heap