Jay's letter 4-11-11

hello my dear family
this week was good (: fast but good (: i am pretty sure me and my comp won the big competition this week! we find out tonight. wow, i get really competitive here in the mission (: a lot (: but it´s a good thing.

we are helping out the ward missionaries alot and helping them to actually fulfill their calling. it´s kind of a weird calling so we thought we would hold a training of sort in the chapel. it was so so fun! we did practices and even went to do contacts in the street with them. they were so nervous and really stumped but it was super fun. we are working on getting the ward missionaries really excited about the work here. telling them that even if they think it´s weird they can totally bring up religion with their co workers and friends. it´s fun to do missionary work. for me it´s an art and it´s sometimes a game too. a game against satan and to figure out what to say to enter their hearts and souls. ah, so fun (:

mom! i made chicken fajitas with your recipe. oh my goodness, it was beautiful what i ate (: you would have been so proud of me. (: i can´t wait to make more. i still have half a boneless chicken left and luckily, at the nearby walmart they have tortillas too. i am a blessed man. but yeah, it was really sweet (: they were beautiful.

well it´s transfers tomorrow and i keep telling people it´s a possibilty that i am leaving. they get kinda sad, and it makes me know that i di d pretty good job. at least to make them somewhat sad. (i am so humble huh?) but i really do like it here.

yes mom, the flia. adasme has a mom. shesactually a member....way inactive, and the dad died. tough situation. but they are good people. this week we had the baptism of monica. i can´t really send photos this week, but, yeah, she is really cool. she was way way nervous antes the baptism but she is so excited now. she was bragging to us elders that she was going to clean houses with the relief society two times a week. hahaha. good adittion to the church.
this week we are working with more young kids to get them to the waters of baptism. i don´t know why, but i love working with the youth and talking with stuff about god with them. they are really receptive and they just know what is good and bad, even if they are doing them (: hopefully i can keep this rythm up.

well, sorry to be so brief, i don´t really know what to write. i hope everythings going great in nampa idaho (:
elder jay valle

p.s. i think we won the competition. (!)