Dear Raines Family!

Saturday   6/1/2013

Well, I feel so happy that Lauren and Jake finally had their baby! He looks so cute and looks like he will be a good baby like Lillie. Good genes mixed makes a good baby. I love his name! Cooper Scott, With a name like that he is destined to be amazing. No, but really that was very special for me to read that you would name him after Dad and I. I love you Lauren and Jake. I love you so much. I have been praying for Lauren and Cooper and I am glad that the Lord answered my prayers and kept them both well and healthy. 

This week I was in Bucaramanga, and it was exhausting. We left Monday night and got to Barranca first and spent the day there all day Tuesday. There were some problems there so President had us do some interviews to figure out what was going on and we got that all solved and figured out. That was really weird to interview a missionary like that. Peoples eyes tell you so much. It's like the door to their spirit.

Then that morning we got up at 3:00 and caught a bus that left at 4:00 and then we got to Bucaramanga at about 6:30 or so. I love that city so much, so yes I was there when you saw that video of the lady from Bucaramanga on that t.v. show. We were there with the two zones. One zone on Wednesday and then the other zone on Thursday. I bought some traditional Santanderian candies there that dad might remember, maybe, we´ll have to see. Thank you for putting in some money in my account. I'm gonna go buy one of those Colombian hats today and try and find a church bag. There is a nice little store here close to the offices. But then Thursday night we came back to Bogotá with an Elder who finished his mission yesterday. 

I'm glad that the girls are now out of school and happy. That is so weird that Caroline is now out of High School. WOW. And Margaret is going to be in the 6th grade! How weird! 

I had an interview with Presidente yesterday because he is doing the interviews for all the mission. I sure love you all. Keep me in your prayers and keep sending me pictures. I love seeing pictures of the new baby. He is so cute! I bought  a white bow tie for his blessing. I dunno if you´ll want to use it, but either way, it was cheap and good looking so I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I sure love you all.

Elder Raines