What's up family!!

I sent a few pictures that sister Hernandez sent me. All the little kids want me to pick them up so that's why i have two haha- these pictures are from the 4th and also a little kids birthday party that all the missionaries got invited to.

But ya last week was really good. We received a list of names from a member in our ward of some inactive members that were baptized but never confirmed. He wanted us to visit all of them.  So we went to visit all of them on the list, which was like 7 people who live really far away but are still in our area.  We didn't find anyone of them on the list, but we ran into a guy that lives at the address and he said that they all moved away to a city far away. So me and my companion were pretty bummed about that. We were walking to one last person's address that we had and a family was outside so we stopped by to ask them if they knew the road that we were looking for and they told us where it was. As we were walking away one of them asked if I was American and if your a missionary thats your favorite thing to hear because that means investigator!  So we turned around and talked to them. We were able to talk to them about our church and stuff and marked another day to meet with their entire group of 8. Then we went a little more down the road and another dude yelled for me asking if I spoke English. So we stopped by them and gave them the same invite.  It turns out that the whole road with a bunch of houses on it are all family. So me and my comp really were blessed this day because now we know we will teach a lot and will eat a lot.  

We stopped by there later this week and taught a group of 8 people and then another house of 4 and they all seem really interested in hearing what we have to say. None of them went to church on Sunday, but alot wanted too. The church building is really far from where they live so we will have to work harder to get them to come to church.

Love you guys,

Elder Mauter