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January 14, 2013

Dear fam bam,

Thanks for everything ya'll do. Ya'll are great!!

First off mom, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear mother, happy birthday to you!! Love you mom, miss you. Hope you have a good b-day! I've been thinking a lot about you and dad this week. Thanks for raising me the way you did! I really appreciate that, I Elder Lifferth being born of goodly parents... it’s true. You can really see a difference in people who had good parents and vis-versa. So thanks!

SO the other day...got a sad text from carlos (a recent convert in the reston ward from el salvador). It said Elder Lifferth I am no longer willing or want to help out with timoteo and javier as I have decided to leave the church. I hope you can respect my decision.....that was extremely hard for me to read. I almost cried. It was weird because just the day before he was at the library with us with our 2 homeless peeps... it was rough man...this week has been good, yet rough...lots of opposition going on... but ya gotta have lots of hope!

ALso something random. We were on our way home and some guy (looked 17) he ran up and was like hey can you buy my cigs?! I was like what the...this boy be crazy. I think he was under age so if we did buy it I think we could have got into trouble. He said he left his id at his house. Just super weird.. haha man this week hahah crazy.

Also President asked us to email you and tell you to let everyone know to not come visit me out here haha. I guess a lot of people have been calling him asking if they can see certain missionaries. He doesn't like being the bad guy. Ha so yeah just fyi, no one can come visit me here, even if you are in the dc area. It’s ok though.

So Sunday morning one of our investigators asked me that I call her before church at 7 to remind her to go. So I called and she’s like ummm.... claro que si, voy a asistir! I was like sweet!! Also the day before another gator promised he'd go and neither of them came haha. I was like .......... but man church was good. And now we have ward council at 7's on Sundays before church so really really early haha.

Erick romero and fam are doing really good. The baptism got changed to Jan 27! So we are working with that. We visited with them yesterday and it was really good. Great fam! We have developed a great relationship with them.

Also if Stephen or big Mike decide to go on a mission, let me know so I can let you know where to buy stuff, what brands etc etc.. haha

This past week we had zone conference, it was really good. It goes from 9-3:30...super duper long but also very good. I enjoyed it. I learned a lot of how I can learn and improve being a missionary. It kinda stinks because they give things you have to do each week etc like splits with members stuff like that, but in the Spanish program it’s just soo different. Everyone works like 3 jobs and no one has time to come out with us. So we gotta keep that in mind, haha.

Everything else here is going good. We are teaching a lot of peeps but not a whole lot of progression...and also the hnas are taking our gators!!!! What the, who do they think they are hahah jk but it’s still weird. We were teaching this one fam we got a referral for and then they showed up while we were there, and we were planning on going over saturday to teach them but they were there again... pretty strange, I feel like they are in it for the numbers, but that’s ok whatever helps the gators progress is what matters.

Well fam bam love you all so much and miss you. I've been missing Justin this week. Haha the other day we were at a member’s talking about languages and how peeps call aunt aunt (the way we don’t ha) then I was telling them how Justin says oven like oh-ven haha. It was fun to make fun of him even though he wasn't here hahahahah (I hope he reads this) haha. But life is good. Just trying hard to get our gators to progress, it’s a challenge but a fun challenge.

Hope you enjoy the pics of great falls!!

Con amor,

Elder Andrew Lifferth