76671aed4b53--letter-7-4-2012.txt

4/7/2012 Semana Santa is what they call Easter here. It is a whole week. Most take off work and go to the beach. Almost all take off on Wednesday through Sunday, so all the stores are closed except the pulperias which are family owned stores. I took the young men to the beach and they had a great time. One non member that may have been 11 but he said he was 13. Not a lot of honesty with people here. I took the snorkel equipment that our owner of our house had. David lost his mask about 5 times. He kept giving it to someone else to use and then I would see him and ask him where is your mask. He would say I don’t know. I would say well go find out. He would leave and somehow would find the mask. I found out that part of his family went to the same beach we were at. He would loan the mask to one of his family members but somehow it was loan to whoever that was around them. Some really don’t understand. It wasn’t my mask and I had figure I would buy the owner a new one. The fifth time I took it and put it away so he would not lose it again. It kind of drove me nuts. Oliver a 12 year old member brought a volley ball and it was a hit of the party. Every one like playing with the ball and it brought all the young men together. There was this pier that was two story and people would jump off into the water when the boat were not docked. Joshua was 12 and he sat beneath the pier and stayed there for a long time because he was afraid to jump. It reminded me about Luis waiting for hours to jump rock in Kawai. Well I gave him a nudge and he went in and seem to be happy that he finally did it. He actually went back and jump in again serveral times after that. I was struck when Daniel Garay (16) ask me to go beneath the pier and catch him when he jumped because he cannot swim. He came up fighting and swing his arms and I just said take it easy and I will get you to safety. What trust he had in me. I sometimes cannot keep away the tears of knowing how much they need leadership and how much they yearn for someone to love them. It because of young men like him that I do what I do by making some type of young mens program for them. The bug me all the time to go places or do something. Hermana Roper keeps telling that these are the ones that can make a difference. The youth. The parents have to many hang ups and the youth will stay stong then this branch may have a chance. So I continue to do things with the youth. At first we had two, then 5 and now ten. It grows to faster that any program that I have been in. The Mom keeps

4/7/2012 Semana Santa is what they call Easter here. It is a whole week. Most take off work and go to the beach. Almost all take off on Wednesday through Sunday, so all the stores are closed except the pulperias which are family owned stores. I took the young men to the beach and they had a great time. One non member that may have been 11 but he said he was 13. Not a lot of honesty with people here. I took the snorkel equipment that our owner of our house had. David lost his mask about 5 times. He kept giving it to someone else to use and then I would see him and ask him where is your mask. He would say I don’t know. I would say well go find out. He would leave and somehow would find the mask. I found out that part of his family went to the same beach we were at. He would loan the mask to one of his family members but somehow it was loan to whoever that was around them. Some really don’t understand. It wasn’t my mask and I had figure I would buy the owner a new one. The fifth time I took it and put it away so he would not lose it again. It kind of drove me nuts. Oliver a 12 year old member brought a volley ball and it was a hit of the party. Every one like playing with the ball and it brought all the young men together. There was this pier that was two story and people would jump off into the water when the boat were not docked. Joshua was 12 and he sat beneath the pier and stayed there for a long time because he was afraid to jump. It reminded me about Luis waiting for hours to jump rock in Kawai. Well I gave him a nudge and he went in and seem to be happy that he finally did it. He actually went back and jump in again serveral times after that. I was struck when Daniel Garay (16) ask me to go beneath the pier and catch him when he jumped because he cannot swim. He came up fighting and swing his arms and I just said take it easy and I will get you to safety. What trust he had in me. I sometimes cannot keep away the tears of knowing how much they need leadership and how much they yearn for someone to love them. It because of young men like him that I do what I do by making some type of young mens program for them. The bug me all the time to go places or do something. Hermana Roper keeps telling that these are the ones that can make a difference. The youth. The parents have to many hang ups and the youth will stay stong then this branch may have a chance. So I continue to do things with the youth. At first we had two, then 5 and now ten. It grows to faster that any program that I have been in. The Mom keeps