Hey family....what time is?

Dear Family:

Another great week. Seeing miracles and blessings daily and I`m lovin it. Its raining today. That was way random. It hasnt rained for a few weeks. It was fun though. We got to play soccer in the rain. 6 or 7 months ago Pres. Nancollas banned soccer because we had an american Elders vs. Mexican Elders game and there was a fight (i was not involved) Its kinda a good way to get frustrations out...(if there are frustrations) I just take it as a tranquilo way to get to know the other Elders in the zone. There were no fights today. A few weeks ago in our zone leader council he decided that we can have ipods (with just church music) and that we can now play soccer (but only one time as a zone in a change) I thought about asking you to send me an ipod, but i decided that that is pretty risky. How about you just get me a sweet one and save it for when i get home. deal? I guess its not to far away. I still use my speakers and cd player morning and night and YES, i would like you to send me the childrens mexican cd thing that you made. Only if its a cd though. I figure if its when you were little then they only had tapes back then. I dont want that. Thanks mom...love you.

I`m glad you got my letter. I might try to write and send another one tomorrow. I`ll try to get better. My comp. Elder McElvain is pretty good about writing his fam and novia so I thought i might do that. `

I`ve gotten really bad about writing in my journal so try to save the emails that im sending you. that would be great.

Alright..... the good stuff....
So this week was very productive. We got a lot of work done. We only had one interchange so it was good to get our area straightened out. We are looking good to have a lot of people get baptized this month.

We are teaching a family that is pretty sweet. Josefina, justino, and their daugther karina who is 15. They went to church and enjoyed it. They showed up by themselves. The dad justino said that he worked in Flagstaff, AZ for a little while and thought it was cool that Im from AZ. He says that they treated him well there until he got sent back to his country. I hope they progress. They are a great family.

Another way awesome story. So a few weeks back me and Elder Rodriguez found a guy and his wife. Their names are Javier and Martha. It was a cool story how we found them because I was teaching Elder Rodriguez a technique that I sometimes use that I just contact the open doors. I felt like I heard a scream in a house so I knocked it. They opened the door and they were just watchin t.v. Martha said that she was about to leave, but Javier let us in. (He was completely drunk) He had a bottle of straight up alcohol in his pants and when he expressed his desire to change and give up the alcohol I asked him for it. He took another swig and gave it to me. I put it in my backpack and dumped it out later. Anyways, we went back the next day and this time he had 2 bottles of alcohol. I kinda got mad at him and told him that he cant drink and that he needs to follow Jesus. He started crying and said that he wants to stop. His wife just sat there embarrassed. It was a stressful situation. We gave them like 40 pesos each so that they could go to the hospital to get the alcohol out of his system with a suero....I think that might be translated as I.V. Quien sabe. So yea, they went to church last week even though Javier was shaking the whole time. They liked it a ton! They said they learned a lot and are going to keep going. So then we visited him this last Tuesday and he said that he hadnt taken a drink of alcohol since last Friday. He doesnt have work right now so he asked us for more stuff to give him to read so that when he has ganas to drink (what is ganas in English?) he can just read. We thought it was a perfect time to teach him about the Book of Mormon. We taught him and he sat there fascinated and asked how much it cost. We told him that the price was to read it.... all of it. He took that really seriously. Since Tuesday he has read 3 Ne 11, 2 NE 31, 2 Ne 9, and then he has started from the beginning and is a little past 1 Ne 20. He is reading and applying it and told us on Friday that ``for a long time I have lived my life like Laman y Lemuel`` He also told us that he has had some pressure from his family and they were making fun of him because he went to the Mormon church. He told us ``I felt bad because my family made fun of me, but I guess Nephi`s brothers laughed at him when he was building the boat and all he was doing was being obedient`` Javier is the man. The Book of Mormon changes lives and Javier loves the Book of Mormon. He says that it is 10 times better than the Bible because he understands it haha. So Martha was a little unsure of the situation and just went to church last week to support Javier. She loves the gospel now too. This next Tuesday she is going to the activity to help some of the hermanas make tamales. They are so happy now. They showed up to church yesterday by themselves and are preparing to get baptized. Since that second day that we took away his two bottles of alcohol he hasnt had one drink. Today he went with an hermano to the stake center because there is like a job center thing (i dont know how to say it correctly in english) centro de recursos?, centro de empleo? So they are doing awesome. Saturday morning they said that they wanted 2 things from us. 1. They asked us if we can keep visiting them to learn more and feel good and 2. They asked us to keep our eyes open for some jobs because we are always walking the streets.
We told him of course that that is our purpose to help people especially helping them come unto Christ.

So yea, Javier and Martha are awesome. We are planning their baptisms for the 13 of February.

Irma is getting baptized at 7:00 this Saturday. I think i have already commented about her a few weeks ago. She is still doing great and reading the book of mormon. All the members have been assuming that she was already a member because she always comes with her bible her book of mormon and with a dress or at least skirt or something nice. She is pumped about it. We are still workin with her son Eric, but he has been workin a ton lately.

Luis didnt get baptized this past week which was frustrating. He left Wednesday to Toluca and said he would get back on Friday....well, he didnt. Kind of frustrating. We gotta talk to him to see whats up. He`s a good guy though and unless something ridiculous happened he still wants to get baptized. Pray for him.

I think it would be awesome if you come down to get me. Elder Christensen and i have been brainstorming cool things to do. Everyone says its dangerous, but I think mexicans are just paranoid. In 2 years in dangerous places I`ve been fine. When you guys come we wont go to those places.

To explain my little subject thing I put ``what time is`` My comp and I have figured out that translating spanish exactly in to english makes everything really funny. I always ask my comp what time is because in spanish its ``que hora es`` It makes for funny conversations.

Anyways changes are in 3 weeks. Elder McElvain just realized that he will be in his house 3 weeks from now and is freakin out. The miossion just sent him his flight plans. That means that Elder Francis is going home too. Time is flyyyyying.
I`m excited though. Being a zone leader has been fun and I love it here in Queretaro. It is a lot nicer and a lot cleaner. Today Elder McElvain and i went to the mall and i thought I was in America. It was a nice mall and had Liverpool and Italian suit stores, lots of cool things. I forgot what its like to walk around in a mall like that.

Well thats it for today! i love you all and have a great week!

Oh before i forget, should i be preparing things like classes and stuff or re register to go back to BYU. I have no idea. So can you look into that for me? Ill email you again with my i.d. user thing and my password to get into my website on the byu page thing. Thanks mom, much love.

Have a great week! I love you all and pray for you daily!

con amor,
Elder Greg Heap