Alo!
Well Elder Van Pelt is doing fantastic! He is loving all the mail and packages he is getting. He says that everything he gets in the mail is like Christmas morning. I can imagine! The only communication he has from home, and that communication comes with candy and letters? I would be pretty excited too! He said that the mission field is a lot like "The Best Two Years", which is Zach's favorite movie. There is a scene where some elders get mail and others don't, the elders that don't get really jealous of those who did. He said that the other elders in his apartment are really jealous of all the mail Zach gets, I think secretly he loves it. He told the missionaries in his apartment that he gets so much mail because he has such great family and support here at home. So keep the mail coming! He absolutely loves it! He is also only speaking Spanish at his pad of 4 english gringos. I imagine his pad mates are probably bugged by it, but I am sure it is helping their Spanish also :)
Zach told us in his last letter about Marcia. She is a sweet lady who is at home taking care of her 90 year old grandmother. Which is why she loves when Zach and his companion come over and talk to her. She hasn't made any progress at all really, because she is SUPER die-hard Catholic. But, she will read the Book of Mormon with the elders and enjoys it. She just won't read it on her own or even thinking about committing to baptism. So hopefully with some hard work from Elder Van Pelt and Elder Pistorius, that can change and she can see the truth of the gospel.
Zach ended his letter with a passage in Spanish. I honestly can only pick out a few words that I can translate myself (thank you high school Spanish class), but I am sure it is wonderful! So enjoy yourself, and until next week, hasta luego!
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