April 30th

> Thanks for all the e-mails. I´m glad to know that Isaac´s farewell was a success and that the family was able to crowd into our house. I kind of liked having a crowded house... it´s always intertaining when there are 27 or more people all in one house.
> Spanish is coming along (slowly it seems), but it´s coming. last Saturday was my favorite day of proselyting so far. I understood a lot of what the people said and I was able to bear my testimony to them better then I have in past weeks. Me and my companion were able to teach the Joseph Smith story about 7 times while we were out and it was incredible. We also taught other brief lessons, but teaching people about the resteration is my favorite thing to do.
> The neighborhood that we were assigned to was in a very wealthy neighborhood, but we had to walk through an extremely poor neighborhood to get there. That was a real eye opener for me. I´ve tracted in poor areas before (or areas that I thought were poor), but nothing like the one we had to walk through to get to our area. In the area we were in the people weren´t really interested in listening to us (I spoke through a lot of intercoms and had a lot of people turn us down that way). fortunatly some of the really large homes had lot´s of servants that were really nice and we got a few contacts that way.
> Walking around the streets of Beunos Aires with a little map with only a few street names is definitely quite the experience. (especially when my companion is no good with maps and leaves me to do the navigating... which is also not so good because I am not very good with maps either. It´s fun. but, I´ve only gotten lost a few times in this country. )
> There is one experience that I had tracting Saturday that is pretty incredible, so I´ll be sure to include it in my next letter home. (my time is running short on e-mailing... I hate the time limits here. geesh)
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> Isaac- good luck on your last week at home. I can hardly believe you will be leaving soon. I´m on my last 3 weeks at the MTC and now your starting. Goooood luck. Be prepared to sit in class forever and feel like your head is going to explode with information.
> Remember our spanish class together? Well, I´m pretty sure I learned more in my 1st 3 days here then I ever did in class. grammer is still a killer for me, but I understand most of it. I just can´t apply most of it in my speaking which is a problem. I spend hours reading my Book of Mormon in spanish each week and that has been a huge help. I recommend it. I also spend a lot of time reading my grammer book ...the Book of Mormon is much more effective though.
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> I love you all MUCHO!
> -hna. Grindstaff