Elder Matt Dial

December 15, 2011

Hello Everyone,

This week has been mas o menos. We have been working a lot with less actives so not so many investigator lessons but we're movin along.

\We have been teaching a kid named Paolo who is 15, less active and super tight. He's all into boxing and his dad is a BOMB cook so needless to say we steal food every time we go over there which is every day. We have been trying to reactivate the kid and he got into a fight at school and needed to take some counseling hours.....as missionaries we are considered clergy so we count for counseling hours. We meet with him daily and it's a slow process but it'll be worth it.

We've been working a lot with another less active family daily as well named the Navarro family. They're super tight as well and they are progressing as well.

(Well the guy who sat next to me last week at the library just sat next to me again......he's almost bald, weighs about 140 6'2 has got a gnarly mustache and types like he's pounding nails into the keyboard with his index fingers........oh now he's talking to the computer screen/facebook.........also himself. I love Riverside.)

We finally got in contact with Lorena again! We stopped by and desperately knocked on the door, and it opened! WE walked in and talked for a while. They have been very sick as a family. One gets sick and then the other follows. WE haven't been able to meet with them for the past 2 months about and they have been reading the Book of Mormon daily! We set up an appointment on Saturday and things were looking good....we got a text that day that said their dad had been deported (he had been in jail for the past 6 months) and they had to go to Tijuana to take him his stuff. Poop. We'll keep tryin with them because they are obviously prepared by the Lord.

I have received a package from G&G Bevan and the Vanderlindens.....whoever they are. The rest have been from you. I was going to do Christmas cards, but it's too late. Maybe next year. Well, not much more to report. I love you and can't wait to talk to yall!

-Matt