Greetings once again from Santa Tecla!

Hola y'all!
It is so good to hear from you. Mom, I'm honestly not sure how pouch works, all I know is that every monday the office elders get a manila envelope with dear elders and pouch mail. Which my lucky 2 comps get to sort while I sit in the room with Hna Woods while she charts the incidents from the week. Missionary health is interesting, We had one elder this past week who had had amoebas(supposedly the most common cause of recurrent diarrhea here) its called entamoeba histalytica and the treatment is 2 sets of pills the first is 3 days of 2000mg and the 2nd is 3 days of 500mg of a different med. The first is supposed to kill the amoebas and the 2nd the kesaise (kinda like eggs) and then you're done but it is way rough on the liver and so you can't have the treatment any more often than every three months, so if you get amoebas again your out of luck. But this Elder took the pills, finished and called the day after saying he didn't ever feel better, and hna woods told him sometimes it takes a bit of time, and so he waited for another week and called and said, I still have diarrhea, I'm loosing weight really bad and i feel really week, he had another test and it was still positive for amoebas. But the problem is we don't know if he got a bad round of the first meds the first time or what, so Dr. MacArthur said to start him on flagyll and hope that helps. Poor elder. We Talked to another this morning that sounds like a torn rotator cuff. P-day is dangerous. So many missionaries get hurt on P-day.

Anyway for this week we went to the office 2x(normally only once but we wanted to see this Hna who thinks she broke her foot, she didn't come, and Hna Woods was like, I'm not going to say have an xray until I see this foot) we also spend an evening taking an Elder with an unexplained fever(39 Celsius) for 1 week, that didn't respond to abx, to an internalist. The first time we've used this doctor so Hna Woods went with him and I sat in the waiting room.
We also had our district meeting in La Puerta this week, so I got to see the ocean as we drove past it in the bus, and the white sand too. That was exciting, but it is really hot down there.

Anyway so we spent a lot of time traveling this week, but our family that need to get married almost have all the paperwork they need. This morning we had an awesome lesson with just the parents, and we brought a member who had had troubles overcoming an alcohol addiction as well, and he was like, I know it can be hard, but my door is always open, any time you need support or someone to talk to, come on down to my house.He also said to remember that we don't make covenants with the missionaries, the bishop etc, we make covenants with God. He was so powerful, I wish every recent convert (actually every member) was as great of a member missionary as him.

The other Hnas have a family that came to conference :) He actually quit his job so he could come, he said, I know that god wants me in Church, so I'll go and trust that he'll help me find another job. :) what faith! He has to get divorced, before he can get married to the woman he's living with now, so we probably won't be able to baptize him this change, but we're trusting in and seeing so many miracles. This Hno has read the Book of Mormon 2 times before we found him and he has such a strong testimony of the gospel! Thank you those who came before who planted seeds for us.

They also have been teaching an Hna who´s the sister of the Hno who came with us to teach this morning. She also came to conference and was so excited about it, She worked late yesterday and so they didn't get to teach her again this week, but we're hopeful that she'll be at church this sun and that she'll accept a baptismal date, She has a testimony of the living prophet so :).
We also taught a wonderful woman who we had put in the investigatores antiguos section of the area book, but we felt prompted to visit her yesterday and she said she'd come to church this Sunday She says she knows the BOM is the word of god, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, but i think she's been having trouble leaving her other church because of her friends there. Even though she has LDS friends.

SO this week really has flown by, we've worked hard and we are always finding new people, the unfortunate part for us is that many of them don't actually live in our area so we are always giving references to other groups of missionaries. We always pray that they'll go and find them, or call them or what not. We have talked to 3 other people in the last week who have read the BOM, and believe it, one of them came to conference, but he says the missionaries haven't come to his house yet or called (he works in front of our house so we see him every other day).

Mormon.org isn't really translated into spanish yet so we don't do much with it, Anita, besides that most of the people we talk to don't have internet access.
Bryce Your description reminded me of so many of the pasages (knid of like sidewalks, but there isn't a road, its just the path between the houses) in a few of the colonias.
My time is about over, Love Y'all and hope to hear what is going on in your lives ;)
Love Hermana Allen