Baby Overson- Email 4/1/13

WELL my son was born this week. and wow it has been a crazy week. we seriously have gone through a roller coaster of a week but it has just been so so so so much fun. Seriously, i love him so much. He is an awesome missionary and came with just so much fuego and animo that its impossible to stop him. haha there a few things that i realized i had gotten accustomed to that are actually SUPER weird according to people who are fresh from the states - like for example, the fact that our bathroom is so broken that we have to fill up a water jug in the kitchen sink and then take it into the bathroom to fill up the water tank above the toilet so that it can flush. Four times. I had completely forgotten that that was, in fact, NOT normal and that i shouldn't have to do that to fill a toilet up. But asi es la vida. 

Anyway, we have just had a blast of a week. obviously it was crazy hard to leave elder Salazar and we actually had a couple of tender moments. Ill miss that kid a lot, and so will the people here in coronel. He is a heck of a missionary and we grew a ton together. Just different chapters of the mission, but so cool to see how the lord uses each companionship to do different things. We are here together now, overson and i, just to baptize. The kid is seriously 100% faith and doesn't care that his spanish is struggling, but just relies on the lord and we have seen miracles because of it. And i might add, i understand parents now. I can relate to the incident now where parents hold their newborn babies in their arms for the first time. My first baby was a little heavier and hairier and nicely dressed than i expected, but HEY, its a cool thought holding your baby in your arms. We got a good kick out of taking lots of picutres and having lots of fun. We have bee working real hard on his spanish and eveyrthing else, and also just tyring really hard to have fun. His first night here, we were walking on a kind of scary dirt path in the middle of a forest little thing (i have no idea how to describe things in english anymore) and i just started SCREAMING and bolted away sprinting. Hahaha i was laughing so hard when he was just like ELDERRRRRR WAIT!!!! hahaha i love the kid so much. He is an incredible missioary.As i said before, his name is Elder Overson from Gilbert, Arizona. He is 18 years old and was like "yeah, basically pres monson changed the age and i put my papers in." Haha these new missionaries are coming in and chaning the mission, its insane. I hate to think of myself as not "new" anymore but i still kind of am. right??

Anyway, our goals for this cambio are keeping us super animated. We have quite a few families and people that have been attending church and we have a goal of 8 baptisms for april. We know its super high and its a stretch, but we felt that the spirit prompted us to choose that number, so we know that if we give it our all and are 100% obedient that we will get it done. We are trying to become the most effective missioanries possible and just do everything we can to serve the lord. We are beyond excited and are going to see miracles, i just know it. Its made me so excited seeing him work because i can totally relate to marys first week in hong kong now! I 100% know she has just lit a fire under her trainer and is probably already doing miracles out there. Ching muhk sfmiu sflmieu juiam. Thats chinese, right? i cannot imagine speaking that....so crazy.

Anyway, i have literally no time left. I'm still in coronel, still loving the ward, still freezing my butt off as it gets to winter, and still loving the mission. there is just truly nothing better. this is such a special time in my life and i am so grateful to the lord to have it. I have learned so much about myself and cant wait to see how much more i change throughout this process. The church is true, god loves every one of us, and i couldnt be more grateful for that knowledge.

Les quiero mucho
Elder Tengberg