~January 30, 2012- Working Hard!~

Elder Garcia is doing great and working hard! His ward is having a activity is which they will be committing the members of the ward to give a Book of Mormon to a friend. The missionaries love referrals! Elder Garcia's new companion, Elder Oliverson, is a very humble guy who is trying so hard to learn Spanish! The love their area, which is full of Hispanics, and is pretty ghetto (he says). Elder Garcia's bike got a flat and his companions backpack got stolen unfortunately, but he is a strong missionary.

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A family Elder Garcia baptized

~January 23, 2012- Pictures!~

Elder Garcia didn't write too much today as he and his companion had lots of things to do! But here are a couple pictures he sent!

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~January 16, 2012- Called To Be A Trainer!~

Elder Garcia didn't have much time to write, but he has been out 6 months, and has been called to be a trainer! He will still be in the Spanish zone, so he is excited about that!

~January 9, 2012- Hard Work Pays Off!~

Elder Garcia says that this week has been great. They are really working hard and its paying off. They have two sister missionary companions in their district and ward so they do a lot of work. This last Sunday they had 17 investigators at church in all, and that is their average! He says that they are so blessed there. They have a few baptisms lined up for the following weeks. Yesterday after church they found a "golden investigator" who agreed to be baptized after their first lesson with her! She was so ready. She's from Peru, and she said that she has been looking for a church to join but none of them ever felt right. She actually went to church on her own yesterday, and said she loved! So they had a lesson with her at church and showed her a picture of the first vision; after it was all through she said it all makes sense! She has agreed to being baptized in a few weeks!

~January 2, 2012- New Year, New Goals!~

Elder Garcia is very excited for this new year, and has lots of goals! He gave a talk on Sunday about spiritual goals, and he says it was awesome! He learned so much from preparing and studying for the talk. Elder Garcia says that the work there is great, and the people are very interesting, but in the end, its all worth it! He says that there is so much to do everyday, even on his p-day its sometimes hard to find time to write home, and do personal things because they have appointments scheduled; which is good!