August 8th

!Hola¡

Things are going good down here. All is good.

This week we had exchanges with our district leader. Elder Medina and
Elder Hawkes were here in our area and Elder Rivas and I were in their
area. We had that on Wednesday. The day after We had citas and
everything started to work and Elder Medina and I were talking with
people and finding and everything. This week ended up turning out
good. The past few weeks have not been very good but after exchanges
things start to move along. Normally every cycle we have exchange but
since that 1st time in my 5th week in the mission we have not had
them. With the exchanges it recharged our batteries to work together
and find people because everyday all the time we were needing a
little recharge and time away. Everything is good now and we are
thinking that we are going to have exchanges (at least Elder Medina).
We ended up finding 13 new people to teach.

This week we were talking with one of our families that we
baptized(Gerardo y Alicia). Gerardo is having a hard time wanting to
come to church and fell back into some old habits of smoking. We have
another cita with them this week to talk more. That was one of the sad
things this week. The good things were that we found more to teach.

In 8 days it's going to be 6 months in the mission. The time has gone
by really fast. The time in the field more then the time in the MTC
but fast.

Nothing big happened this week so i don't have any pictures to send.
Sorry, I will at least try to send a picture of something every week.

Hope all is good with everyone and that there is not anything big that
has happened. It would be nice to hear from everyone but I know lives
are busy.

Thanks for everything and the love that you all have for me, it helps
to know that there are people at home that love me. Love you all.

Thanks and I love you all.

Love,
Elder Templin