Wow! what a crazy good week! we have been busy like crazy with our investigadores and getting all NINE of them ready for baptism next week!!!!! so amazing. also they will have an incredible experience of being able to go to the temple this coming saturday!! we can allow a certain number of our investigadores to go, because the bishop had a little extra money on the budget that he wanted to help us out with. so we are sending alberto, his wife sofia, their two sons anai, and cesear; francisco, his wife julia, and their son and daughter paco and myreley. julia and myreley are members. also trinidad and his wife dulce; and two other ladies, possibly, rocio, and lucia. i will be so lucky, because the family of alberto, the family of francisco, and the family of trinidad will all be able to go to the temple at my year ish mark. elder snyder says that never happens that you baptize 3 complete families in your first area. im so excited.
also on saturday, we had a baptism for a nine year old girl named alondra, she is such an incredible girl! she couldnt sleep the night before her baptism, because she was so excited. the baptism went pretty well, i performed the ordinance and sadly we had to do it twice, because she kicked her feet up. haha. but everything went well.
Everything is still going good. we are now in the rainy season, well for the past two weeks, and my book of mormon and bible are about ruined from the dirty rain. they are still usable, and still have the same words, so i guess i cant complain too much. i was just hoping to keep them somewhat nice for a while instead of only two months into the mission... we get nasty big monsoons almost everyday. except for the last week, it was pretty nice. the monsoons would hit about 1:30, or 2 oclock everyday, which always put us behind for getting to lunch at 3, and then that puts all our citas for the rest of the day behind. the streets fill up like river rapids, when elder snyder gets home, he will show you the pictures. everyday it rains, we get completely drenched from head to toe, but its ok. it made me laugh when you wrote me mom and said what do you think about the country.... because everyday, i see someone doing something illegal. and the cops just dont do anything about it. its not usually dangerous, but just something wrong. ususally if the cops dont do something about it, they probably know its the narco, drug lord, or its a gang thing. we dont really have gangs here, but gang stuff goes on. the cops are afraid, and so the only ones who deal with narcos and gangs are the army. its kinda crazy to see a regular everyday convenience store get checked by the army. they post out to check incoming trucks.
everyone is still in crazy poverty, but they always have something to give the missionaries. its hard to take it sometimes, but if you dont, you are seriously offending them...
well elder snyder has 20 days until he leaves the area, so we hope. we are both hoping president doesnt change one of us out before he leaves. we both want me to kill elder snyder, my father. did you ever get a call from sister snyder? if not, she will call some time soon. just plan that it will be sunday the 29 of august for his welcome home.
ya i hear from a few of the aunts once in a while, maryjo gives a pretty good monthly update kinda thing, and em is nice to just send a little letter. but im sad to not have heard from betsy or sharon much. maybe a little letter from grandma and grandpa would be nice?
ya i have tried the plastic sack to cover my scriptures inside my backpack many a time, but there really is just too much water. i will just have to suck it up and move forward until the monsoons are over. Have a list of questions ready next week and I’ll spend the whole time answering them. I love you all!
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