Thank you everyone!‏

This past week has been so much better and i feel like a brand new missionary! thank you everyone for your prayers!! i know for a fact that i have been able to feel all of your prayers in this past week because ive had a ton of energy and ive been able to work really hard and get a lot of stuff done! seriously thank you all! we were able to go to the temple on tuesday and wow was that a great experience!!! i havent been since back in february so this time was extra great. its amazing how quiet and amazing you feel when you are inside the temple and how clearly you are able to think. i reflected a lot on what would have happened if i would have had to go home from being sick and i thought about how much i missed everyone but at the same time, i didnt want to finish my mission early and go home with only one year. i never thought that i would think like that but being in the temple helped me realize that i have such a small amount of time here to help out these people and i only have a year left. anyways the temple trip was amazing and we went to mcdonalds afterwards and it was probably some of the best food ive eaten in a long time! haha i never thought that i would appreciate mcdonalds so much! only the really wealthy people here in this country eat mcdonalds so it was an interesting experience sitting around people that were all dressed up and eating bigmacs! also, Wednesday there was a lady in our branch that had to go to the hospital because she is pregnant and they had problems with the baby so we heard about that and immediately went to the hospital to see if we could give her a blessing and we were able to which was a really cool experience and everything is good and fine with her and the baby now! also this past week we got bars on our windows at our house so now i feel a little bit more safe knowing that no one can break in! another thing is that this past week me and my comp decided to look in the area book and see if we could find any old investigators from years past and we found like 7 or 8 of them and when we contacted them over the phone, they all sounded really really happy to hear that the missionaries wanted to talk to them again! we are super excited to begin teaching them again and hope that they will be able to progress and get baptized! Also this past week, me and my comp decided to go and try to see if we could find where the branch president lives and we´ve only been to his house once and it was at night and it was raining really hard and we were on the back of a motorcycle. but we knew that we would be guided to where his house was so we just started walking in the direction where we could remember. we ended up finding this huge hole in the ground out in the middle of nowhere and this guy came up out of it and told us to come down and see his house!! yes this guy lives in a bunch of underground caves but we didnt have time to go look around so we kept going and finally we found the house of the branch president. Today we are going to go back and see this guys underground cave house and take pictures so ill send them next week! last thing for this week was that i didnt really pay attention but our house is across the street from a little church, well this church the other night decided to preach until 11 at night and they had huge speakers with preachers that were screaming into the microphone.  we closed all the doors and windows to try and block out the sound and i even had earplugs and i could still hear through the earplugs! it was so loud and i really hope that they dont decide to do another preaching party! anyways those are some things that happened this past week! thank you all again for the prayers and i hope everyone is doing good back home! love you all!

Love,

Elder Herring