After a short spaz and freak out moment...

Hello everyone!

This week was pretty good. We discontinued working in Ponce two days during the week, so now we can focus more on our own area. This past week we found a cool family that we are starting to teach. We will be teaching them again today. It's a mom, dad and 3 kids. So that's exciting. I got the package yesterday, thanks for the goodies and stuff! I sent some pictures i hope you like them. One is when we went to get Frappes. They are super good i got banana and coconut, YES!! The next one is an iguana, they were all over the place at the park we were at. The one i was holding was actually a smaller one. The last picture comes with a story... So my companion and i go to visit a refferal of a family that the Bishop gave to us. It was at night time and we go to their house to see if they are there, no luck. So we turn around to go back. I was walking a little in front of my companion and we walked around a corner and i hear my companion say, "Whoa, that's the biggest spider i've ever seen!" "You almost stepped on it!," He tells me. But stopping to look at it, we find that it has disappeared! My companion starts looking around on the ground and says, "I think its on you." Me, "No!" Thinking my companion is joking i look down at myself... I look down to find the "biggest spider my companion has ever seen" on my crotch. After, a short spaz and freak out moment i brushed the spider off onto the ground and we took pictures of it. That was a for sure unique experience. ha ha. So, that's what has been going on here in Guayanilla. Thanks for all the updates of everyone, i love hearing from yall. Brandon, that selling thing sounds better and better, that would be sweet if i could do that to save up some money. I can't believe it snowed over there, Boise is crazy. ha ha. Alexa, congrats on getting your braces off, it feels good to be free doesn't it? ha ha. Well, i love you all a bunch. It's wierd it seems like 2 years is a long time but it seems like it has gone by way fast. It gets harder and harder to stay focused. But i need to endure to the end!! Ustedes son la mejor familia en el mundo! You're the best, keep it real!!

-Elder Bailey

Guayanilla has been sweet

Hey everyone!!

Well, this week was pretty good we set a baptismal date with one of our investigators, Angel. It will be for the 9th of April. Guayanilla has been sweet. We are starting to get some good potentials. There was one event this week that was pretty funny. We were talking to this student of Jehovas Witness and we was like getting angry because we wouldn't say that Jehova is God. He was like, "why wont you say it?" They always seem to bring that up. And Bible bashing with them doesn't get anywhere. It was funny though. Then when i was working in Ponce we set a baptismal date as well. We talked to this Sociology professor who is writing a book about religion. This was the 2nd time we talked to him and he seems pretty interested in the Book of Mormon. We left him with a copy. The first time i talked to him he wanted one as well, but i didn't feel like he would read to find out if it was true, but that he would just read just to know about it. But this time he seemed different. I hope it turns out well and he reads, ponders, and prays. But that is pretty much all that has happened. I haven't gotten the package yet. I did hear about Japan, sorry i can't see the video, White handbook says i can't. Also, i can't enter into the bracket thing because it's another website besides myldsmail.net. Thanks for the pictures of the kids they are way cute. Parker is getting so big i can't believe it. Well, i hope everyone is well, i love you all so much!

-Elder Bailey

Guayanilla!!

Hey everyone!!
Thanks for the emails and the updates, its always good to hear from everyone. The work is going steady. We have 2 investigators that aren't progressing. Right now we are working on finding families as always. We need to teach 20 lessons to families every week. It will be difficult especially in Guayanilla because its a small town. But i hope we find families soon. In Guayanilla we were walking around contacting people one night and we got hugs from 2 drunk guys. It was funny, one was a Cuban who had a slingshot with him and we asked him what it was for and he said it was for anyone who was talking bad about him. And he gave us an example and pulled it back but it broke when he did it. And he was like, "it broke!" It was so funny. Apparently were like his best friends with him now. ha ha. Finding people to teach has been difficult. It seems like the belief that all churches are good and it doesn't matter where you go just as long as you believe in God, is pretty popular as usual around Guayanilla. It seems as though every single person we talk to says exactly that. But i wont go on more about that because then this letter would be very long. That topic gets me going. So, i am still going to Ponce Mondays and Tuesdays and i'm actually there right now doing internet. But my companion changed on those days from the Latin to this one elder from New York. Elder Black, this is his 2nd transfer. But everything has been great! I cant wait to get the package. Let me know what happens with my BYU application. The mission is the best! The Book of Mormon is amazing! I love reading it! I love you all so much! 
-Elder Bailey

Off to Guayanilla!!

Hey everyone!!

This past week was alright. We still haven't found anyone here in Ponce. It was fun working with a missionary that doesn't speak english. I mean i don't speak the language perfectly but it worked out. And i wont be working with him 2 days during the week anymore. I will be with a different missionary. What President is doing with that is everyone in the zone goes to Ponce for 2 days during the week to strengthen that area which is the center of strength. But today im going to Guayanilla, which is still in the same zone but in the countryside. My new companion is Elder Gordon from Magna, Utah. It should be good im excited to work there. President told me he wants my new comp to train in the future so i will be working with him to prepare for that. We have a car but i think im going to use the bikes as much as possible, because we can talk to more people that way. Well i hope everyone is doing good. Sounds like that alarm selling is sweet. I would love to do it to save up some money for college. I got my ecclesiastical endorsement and everything done so tell me if i get into BYU! Well, only 2 transfers left! time is going by so fast!! But im not going to get trunky. I hope i can keep working hard till the end. Let me know what's going on in the sports world. I love you all a bunch. You can send me a package if you want with some goodies in it. That would be fantastic! Well, i hope all is well. Remember D&C 122:7. Maybe just read the section, im not quite sure on the verse. I love yall, Peace!

-Elder Bailey

End of Transfer

HEY EVERYONE!
Finally got a pic for you all. That's in the plaza of Ponce, its called, "El Parque de Bomberos". Its an old fire station that is now a museum. Ponce is a cool place, but the work is hard. We don't really have any investigators right now. The guy with 6 fingers and toes says he wants to stay catholic, haven't heard from him since. We do have some potentials but nothing solid yet. The other picture is of Elder Zepeda, my companion Mondays and Tuesdays, he's from Honduras and doesn't speak any English at all. Also, doesn't know how to ride a bike very well, he learned here in the mission. Its kind of scary to watch him ride especially when we are right next to a freeway! Well, i haven't filled out the BYU application yet, I'll do it today. Congrats Brandon on making it in the PR program. Also, i was thinking maybe you could check out some schools in Utah, just in case. And see which ones have a good med program. Let me know what you find. I love you all a bunch! 
-Elder Bailey