Sam's Letter- August 1, 2012

Wow a new month!! July definetly has been the fastest month so far of my mission. And Elder Fairbourn said it only gets faster! Crazy!! So last P-Day we went to Orchard Beach and had a great time! We first played some volleyball on the courts they have and then we went on the sand and played catch with a football and had a great time. Our whole zone went, which is about 10 missionaries, so not to many. We then went and ate at Subway afterwards. Then Elder Fairbourn and I went and looked up some former investigators to see if they were interested or if they even live there. No success but it was still a fun day! Thursday we went to one of our investigators named Brenda and gave her a Book of Mormon and asked her to read it! Then we did some more tracting and then taught English class that night! Friday we did more tracting and didn't have any success. But as we were going home this cool guy started to talk with us and has talked with missionaries before and said that we could come to his barber shop anytime for haircuts, for freeee!! Which is nice. Saturday we went to Throggs Neck which is the name of a city in our area and had some refferals there. We were able to teach two lessons and gave a Book of Mormon to one of them who is really interested! Then we met up with two other Elders in our district to give a blessing to an investigator. It was really nice and she even bought us food! So the whole day on Saturday my body was itching and I didn't no why. I had little rash spots on my arms, so I was like dang it! So we went home and I took my shirt off, and had a rash all over my body! It was crazy! So I took some Benydryl and took a cold shower and went to bed! I woke up on Sunday it was gone. But by 7 o'clock it came back! It wasn't as bad though but it still stunk! We tracted on Sunday until about 8 and then went home. But its gone now and hasn't returned. It was the weirdest thing though! Monday we just tracted. And Tuesday we tracted and then had a lesson with Maria and Marta and it was awesome! We talked about baptism with them and Marta (the mom) said she is going to wait until Maria (the daughter) is ready. So Marta is read to go! And Maria just has a few questions but is progressing!! They will be baptized! We took our ward mission leader Hermano Guevara with us and he can relate with them so good!! It was an awesome lesson! So today for Pday we are going to try to go to a Yankees game!! It will be fun and I will tell you all about it next week! Well hope everyone is doing well and havingfun, especially those at the condo! Thats crazy Lindsay and Billy are moving! Wish them the best of luck! And yes black is sweet for scripture cases! Well I love you all and hope all is well! And if you could send my credit card with the package! Oh and today we saw a man wearing a thong. His shirt was a little short for him and it was just hanging out. "Its a thong!" (quote from Shrek, ginger bread) Love you all!