Hey there all! how are you doing? This was a good week for me!

Well ill first start off by saying that we got to go the temple today and boy i sure know that place is heaven on earth. I really felt like i was in heaven and im looking forwad to going back in 6 months. We had a baptism this last week and that was good, we had been working with him for 2 months and he finally accepted and took action. We completed a family, will be completing another family this week and the following as well. I love this because this is really hard to do here, and im sure anywhere. There are a lot of misisonaries that have been out 19 months and haven’t completed one family. I’m so blessed to have the opportunity to help one complete family come unto the Lord and hope that I will have more. the lord is really blessing me and i can feel his hand in everything that i do.

Dad, I’m glad you’re having fun doing leaves, ha, ha. i enjoyed them..well i enjoyed sitting on the mower and listening to music. i wish i could do that right now but people here dont have much grass and when they do they cut it worst than the amish, they use machetes. you would think they would be more technologically advanced but they arent in some ways. haha thats funny to me..the amish who dont use power are ahead of some of the people here. I sure do love these people and i never thought i would but i sure do.

its not a man satchell, its a nice bag! if you were here in this heat walking as much as i do you would understand we would do anything not to get sweaty and have a lot of back sweat from a backpack.

Thank you for passing the letters on, its way cheaper for me to send them like that. tell syd to write me, i havent gotten anything from her since the last time i wrote her.

it sounds like you’re going to be having a nice thanksgiving. ill be here in the heat working and who knows if ill even have a good dinner, i might be having a pb&j. ive been eating those for two meals a day, we dont have a cocinera anymore. i didnt like the same food everyday and my comp and i were sick from her food.

i think thats about it for me but i have a lot of pics that can tell what else i did this week. have a good week, be safe all. i love and miss you. :)

Love,
Elder Herman
1. my comp and i with our mission president and his wife in front of the temple
2. a wedding here, this is usually how they do them here
3. the cake for the wedding, people usually dont even have this
4. Painting our back wall, this took hours
5. all the bags from the trash
6. our zone
7. our baptism of oscar!
8. one side of the wall that we painted
9. the other wall
10. the other wall
11. at the temple, holieness to the lord, the house of the lord