Familia,
That's  awesome that our ward has changed so much,  so many are leaving on missions and also a lot who are coming back. Sounds like everyone at home is doing good. Dad got a new calling in the teachers quorum, hahah! I feel like they always call dad to be with us in the young men to keep an eye on the Mauter kids haha. Its probably a good thing(; But thats sweet mom that you have been praying to find opportunities to serve when you can.  Thats one of the things i pray for every day, to find someone to serve. Because I know some of the stuff can be so small but it really makes such a difference and i like to do it.

So this week since Thursday we have been without energy in our house.  All of our food went to waste and without light at night to take showers and plan. So everyone just has been going to bed super early this week haha. I have been gaining a lot of trust from the members here. Last week a member that served a mission in colorado that never has left with a missionary left with me last week. My comp stayed with the other two missionary's and it turned out really good.  This guy really isn't a strong member in the church. Mostly because of this area and I'm seeing why.  But he is the smartest dude ever. He knows German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.  He teaches in like 5 different schools which I got to go to this week to help him, I'll tell you later. He literally knows everyone personally here in this area.  We'll be walking with him and everyone will yell his name and also all the inactive members and non members so we got to pass by some of them but then we got cut short cause there were some gun shots which is normal. So we didnt really get to teach as many people as we wanted but ill leave with him again this week.  I think he is the only member in this area that will help us. Everyone else is just lazy and won't leave with us so we really work on our own here. Our Bishop was released because he has alot of health problems so we don't have a Bishop.  We just have stake member that doesn't know very much about how to run things. Our ward missionary leader  served a mission and doesn't have a job and never has time to leave or meet with us which is weird. That's one of the things members really have to know is that without them it makes the work so much harder. They don't really have to leave with us but just give us addresses of people that  you know and it makes all the difference. So help the missionaries and feed them tons mom! Because we missionary's walk a lot.  Maybe not the ones in Arizona because they have cars and bikes haha.

Me and Elder Baliach left with this member to his school to help him out and he gives us some time at the end to teach English. It was really cool, he told us to only speak English so everyone thought we couldn't understand them when they were talking. But at the end we tore them up haha!  Everyone always has so many questions for us. But the most common in all the classes we went to was, what we thought about the girls in Brazil-hahahah. Later that night we went with him to his other school. It's a big catholic school which was funny cause i don't think they would have let us in if they knew we were LDS missionaries but me and Elder Baliach were just laughing so much about that. 

But this week was kinda slow again. We had a baptism marked for Sunday with a kid who is 23 but he didn't show up for his interview for baptism or church on Sunday. So that sucked cause we were really pumped to get this one.  But hopefully we'll get some baptisms this week.  Keep working hard and praying for sure mom, I don't know how I can do this work without that. I hope I get my package soon. Tell everyone in the fam that I love them. 
Elder Mauter