Buenas dias!

Hows it goin? This week was just ok... Except for the
fact that we baptized 3 people!!! This week was sweet!
And we have on on tuesday!We are seeing miracle after
miracle here in Live Oak. We baptized a guy from Mexico
named Alejandro and then 2 kids of a lady we found last
week. She was really sick yesterday so we just baptized
her 11 and 8 year old kids and she will be on tuesday.
We are also working on her mom who lives with her. The
mom is Jolena, the grandma is Joanna and the kids are
Tino and Gabriel. She also has a 4, 3, 1, and 2 month
old kids. Its chaos trying to teach them!

So we found out that all the trees in our backyard are
pecan trees. All the nuts fall to the ground in the fall
and there is a place that buys the nuts from you. We each
collecting a whole sackful this morning and are going to
go see if its worth much money. We'll probably only get
like 5 bucks but we might buy a Little Caesars with it.
I looked up a recipe for pecan pie and am going to try
it out. I made pumpkin pie last night and we had it for
breakfast this morning. Delicious! Some hispanics drove
up to our house and started walking around the backyard
collecting nuts right after we did. Thats the second time
we've seen people out there so we called the owner and we
had to tell them to leave.

Are you excited for your birthday next monday Rachel? Any
sweet plans? Oh what i would give to still be in high
school. I miss a lot of things about it. Hows school goin?
Ill write more in a letter for you this week.

Be careful on that pogo stick dad! Sheesh! Thats crazy
about the flight that went 150 miles too far! haha. Today
we are going up to White Springs to a part member family
and the guy is going to take us gator hunting! At least
thats what he said. I think we are just catching the really
young gators that are small. Maybe we'll have some gator tail!
Ive heard its actually pretty good. Ive had to do some
translating this week for one of our zone leaders investigators
and for Alejandro's interview. The Lord is helping me out a lot!
How is work going dad? Anything exciting going on at the
hospital or a lot the same? I have missed home a lot the past
few weeks. A lot of things here keep reminding me of home.
Everything else is going very well though. The mission is
pushing really hard to try and reach our goal for 1050 baptisms
this year. I think we are almost to 900 right now. Sometimes i
feel like we push so hard the first few days of the week that
its hard to keep up the same desire to work as hard on fri and
sat. On wed we tracted for almost 5 hours straight and literally
ran from door to door. I was exhausted! This week really wore me
out cause i was dragging a bit at the end. Its a lot of work
getting baptisms together and still squeezing in enough time
to visit everyone and tract. We did a lot of Spanish work this
week also which drained me quite a bit. Its hard to teach a whole
lesson in Spanish without help. But i think i am learning and
growing a lot in this area. Hope everything goes well this week!
And Happy Halloween! I really want to carve a pumkin but im not
sure if my comp really does. I still might anyways! Love you all!

Elder Carty