...Rested and Ready for a new week!

Today has been a good day.  I´m here in the offices again.  We are going to go to Wendy´s in a little bit in the van.  It is fun to be able to drive again.  I figure if I can drive in Mexico, I can drive anywhere.  The video games when I was little may have paid off.  Tell Preston to keep up the good work.  I just got back from playing soccer with Elder Christensen the other assistants, the secretaries and some of the zone of Tepalcapa.  It was way fun to get out and run around for a little bit.  I´m going to make this email quick, but if I have time tonight I´ll write another quick note.  We are going to go to a couple zone meetings tonight to make sure the zone leaders are doing their job. 

So I ended the 2 weeks with Elder Perez with a bang.  We brought 7 people to church for the first time and we found 3 people that had listened to the missionaries before, but for some reason or another they didnt get baptized so we put the baptismal date for this next Sunday so I guess we did pretty well in our 2 weeks together.  When I got there there weren´t very many investigators and now Elder Perez and his new comp are going to have a lot more people in teaching.  The Lord helped us out a ton.  We were able to find some people that are ready and prepared and that makes everything so much easier.  I think Elder Perez is excited and his district is more excited.  They should have a lot of success this next change.

This morning we had a meeting with President Nancollas.  It is way sweet to be able to help President Nancollas for the upcoming months.  There are a lot of changes and a LOT of missionaries going home in the next few months.  (including me)  On top of that, the mission is getting split up and instead of have the average of 180 missionaries.  We will be down to about 130 starting July.  That means that we need to make a lot of leaders for both missions.  We have to train a secretary and another assistant for the new mission and we have to make sure the mission is still baptizing week after week.  It´s a lot to think about, but President Nancollas is the man for the job.  It was also way cool just talkin to him for about an hour after the meeting about life and family and the gospel.  He is a good example for me and I look up to him a lot.  So we are going to have a ton of meetings in the next few months so that we can get all the future leaders prepared.  Apart from that Elder Molyneaux and I are going to keep going with the new leaders to make them as prepared as possible.

For my new assignment I will be going to the zone of Tepalcapa.  That´s where Elder Christensen is the zone leader and it will be nice because it is the zone closest to the offices.  The Elder that I´m going to train is named Elder Meraz.  I don´t know very much about him, but I do know that he has 27 years.  He doesn´t have that time in the mission, but he seems pretty mature and is a hard worker.  President has him planned to go up as a zone leader this next change so I think I´m just going to give him a preview of what to do, how to do it and how to help others have success as well.  From what I hear, he´s a way cool Elder.  We will see how it goes.  I´m excited.

Other exciting things.....

This morning I got to take a nap.  That was awesome. 

I did interchanges with Elder Farmer from my generation because he is in Elder Perez district.  In one day we put 9 baptismal dates and they all accepted AND went to church.  He is tearin it up.

I´ve been telling everyone in Elder Perez ward that I only have 4 months in the mission and they all say ´´Wow, how did you learn spanish so fast?´´  That is way better than hearing ´´¿Oh, so you are almost going to go home? What are you going to do when you get home?  (A lot of times when a missionary is going to end there missions the members use the term....´´Ya mero te vas a morir´´  Basically saying oh you´re about to die)  So I think it is better if they think I only have 4 months. 

Well I can´t think of anything else to say.
Thanks for the pictures.  Everyone looks great!  Bead....You probably should stop working out, your goin to rip your shirts

I love you all!
The Church is true!
Live the gospel and you will be happy!
Follow the prophet!
Love the Savior!
Keep the faith!
Have a great week!

Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap