How I wish you were here.

How's it going family and friends?  How is this Christmas season treating you? This Christmas is going to be different but I only get two Christmas' in El Salvador so I am going to try to enjoy it. Anyways:  This week was a good week. We have been working with some investigators that have a baptismal date. Emisela and her son Carlos have a date for the 15th. Alma has a date for the 22nd. We have been having Family Home Evenings in the house of a recent convert. This last week we brought 8 investigators. We watched some Mormon Messages, which are really powerful and a great tool, and we played some games. We were able to get Marielos to come. She is the cousin of Hermana Lorena, whose house it was. The problem with Marielos is that she drinks and she drinks a lot. It is hard to teach her. I know she wants to change but the problem is we hardly ever find her. It is really sad because she has two little kids and she is hardly ever there to take care of them. It is the same with her sister Estela. Estela is always drunk and she has 3 kids. They just leave all the kids with their mom. We have been working with the mom as well, Vilma. She is positive but the problem with her is she can't go to church because she has to tend a bunch of kids. This home is a sad place. Vilma is always sad, with good reason. The kids are always running around without boundaries. Emisela and Marielos are always drunk and can never help. I want to help this family so bad. I think we are starting to get to Marielos. She has a boyfriend, Carlos, who is always excited to go to activities including church. I think he may be the key. I want to see this family, that has been broken and torn apart by alcohol, change and be a strong happy family.  We are going to work hard to see this happen. 

Thank you for everything.

-Elder Rowberry

Mi Casa

We went to eat at a really nice breakfast place today. When I say really nice I mean Kneaders nice or a little bit less nice bur for here it's really nice.