Matty's letter home 7-31-11

I grabbed this from Bu's email to use as a test/sample

Happy Monday day!

 Well this has been another action packed week and it went by realy fast. Before I forget, my camera is a cool pix L22. Not sure if tat is exactly what you needed, but I dont carry my camera around, not the safest thing to do. But if you can, I would ove a camera cord. I have pictures to send you all that you would love. And yes, my house is amazing right now... well for a guatemalan house. But the area is pretty ghetto. It is really big too. I dont know if I said this last time, but there is a pert of our area that we go to and it taked like an hour and 15 to get there. So we are usually pretty pooped after going there, but thats just how the mission is. I really do like this area though, there is a lot to do. There is one investigator in particular, his name is Mario. We teach him in english and he is great. We had an amzing lesson with him this week, we read 3 nephi 11. I could really feel the spirit during the lesson and he said that when he gets an answer that it is all true, he would love to get baptized. Then on sunday he came to church with us. He really has desires to learn and know if the church is true, and when the happens the Lord answers. I know he will get his answer soon and we plan on putting a baptismal date with him the week. I will let you know ow that goes. We have a few other families that we are teaching right now so it is all going well. We had a mission correlation witht he bishop and our mission leader last night and they are both helping us a lot. We talked about a lot of different things to do to have success here. We are really going to start getting the ward involved in everthing, and if we can do that, I know we will have a lot of success here. My companions are good, we are still waiting for Elder Ochoa to get his papers so he can go to Peru. We are thinking this is the week, it will be sad when he goes. But I am excited for him also. It sounds like you all had a great 1 year celebration for me, thanks for that and I will be waiting for those wishes. For my one year mark we had some good lessons and the ended the night going to a really cool member family and they celebrated with us and made us some delicious home made pizza. It was fun cuz they are a really funny family too. There are a lot of really good people here. And I am excited for the opportunity to be here. Thanks for feeding the missionaries, the need it. I dont know how it is there, but it is the best thing in the world when we have a dinner appointment. So keep doing that for the missionaries and help them in whatever way possible. Be a family that they will remember and want to come back and visit. I love you all lots. Thanks for all of your love and help. Only 1 year left and I will be there in the living room sleeping... I bet you are all excited for that!

Love,

Elder Matthew T. Underwood