January 24

Dear family,

     I finally got your package last week during interviews with Presidente Callan, now my part of the fridge is filled with candy ha ha. I was suprised when I kept pulling more and more of my favorite candy out of the box. Thank you very much. Next time it would be wise to send the package 2 and a half months ahead of time, or 3 months if you don´t want to send it express. Don´t send M&M´s they all melted together and it was very messy. I can´t believe you spent $55.95 on all that! I really liked the photo album, but when I saw the Walmart brand I was sore afflicted. I also got a package from Grandma and Grandpa Singson, which was totally destroyed. They put it in a plastic bag so it would all stay together. The everything cardboard of paper was ruined, so all the pictures that they sent were destroyed and it made it difficult to read their letter. Besides that it all made it here.

     The interviews were a little different than I expected. He basically only asked me how I was doing and how my Family,  Area, Companion, and Testimony are (or the FACT questions). Those are the same questions that we always answer with our weekly email to him. I was the first one we interviewed out of my zone. It only took about 7 min and then I was done. Then we talked to Hermana Callan about staying healthy and drinkin water. After that they gave me my packages and we left. I love Presidente y Hermana Callan, they are so awesome. The mission has increasingly been getting better since he got here and from the stories I hear from everyone I can really tell.

     I don´t know what to say about my area. It´s not going so well. Right now we are working really hard with the ward to get it up and running again so we aren´t really teaching lots of investigators. When I first got here the ward died. We have worked really hard to revive it. 20 active members is not going to give us the help we need to keep our new converts active. Thanks to our work we have gotten the ward on the right track. Now we are starting to see an average of 50 members in church every week. We have been getting the bishop really excited about ward missionary work. He has already started getting the members animated about visiting each other. We just barely got a new ward mission leader, Hno Irala, and we have already made many plans with him. The bishop is working hard so I know he´ll get things going again. Solely from the people I know we could have 90 people in church.

     Sunday is always the same. Come to church, go eat lunch, and look for the people who didn´t come and teach the investigators that are in the same area. Monday always varies, sometimes we don´t even have time to go shopping. Wednesday we have ward night and our english class. Thursday we always are trying to get investigators go to sport night. Then tuesday, friday, and saturday we try to teach lessons to investigators, but they are never there. The only time anybody is home is at night and that makes it hard to teach a lot of investigators. Even then we usually don´t teach the people who said were going to be there, so we go to our back up plan less actives. Thats basically it, but we do have 3 progressing families right now, but progressing very slowly. The hardest part is getting them to come to church.

I´m out of time. Got to write Pres. Callan
LOVE YOU!
Elder Zachary James Singson