It's all about love

Hermano Tom making corn dogs, but with cheese and pineapple.. its' good!

Me and Elder Acosta high on the mountain top

Elder Roylance and Elder Weston (from Mesa, Az) at Chili's celebrating my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

Goliath found and open door while we were filling the font!

Baptism of Guadalupe and Daniel

Iguana!

Dia Del Nino fun!

Steaming tamales

Elias, son of Tom

Elvira and 3 of her kids

Everyone in a big baptism service

Well, let me tell you about my week... another long one. Tuesday we had the district leader council. It was super good, as always and they took us out to eat at a Brazilian restaurant. I sat by the President and talked to him a lot and got stuffed full of meat. It was really good but I think I liked the Argentine restaurant better. We got home at about 11:30 from that. The next day we traveled to Tlalnepantla, my comps old area for a baptism, and ended up staying in the zl´s house there because it was late. We’ve got into the rainy season, which means it just comes down every afternoon. And all the mud and crap with it. But anyway. The off thrown schedule lately and the gym we’ve been going too had really worn me down so I got sick. Saturday afternoon we had to stay in the house while I slept it off. I hated that because we couldn’t go to a lot of appointments... that night we played basketball in the freezing rain. (What an idiot, I know.) I felt better on Sunday. It was stake conference and we were going to baptize a family of 5 a lady and her 4 sons of 15, 10, 9, and 8. The last three are every missionary’s dream come true. But... the 8 year old didn’t wake up on time so he didn’t go! We had the baptism there in the stake center with another ward so it was pretty packed... 8 baptisms. So we decided to baptize the 8 yr old later that night in our own chapel. So about 4 o clock we started to fill the font. In the font here you have to put a little plastic cover over the drain, so the water doesn’t drain. And while I was bent over doing that my smart a comp turned on the water valve all the way and shut it. Obviously scaring the snot out of me and by standing up so fast I pulled a stinking muscle in my lower back!! For hours it hurt so stinking bad I had to sit stand or lay down. It still hurts, but not near as bad. Ok, well we were back in the house waiting and 7:00 came and went. And the family never came. So we started getting ready to report the numbers and go to bed. About 8:15 they finally came. But without their mom... and we realized we needed another witness... what a mess. Lamest baptismal service probably ever. Only by chance the 2nd counselor in the bishopric passed by the house and went with us. Whatever. Pray - hymn - baptism with clothing so big it was falling off the kid. Got all changed and it was about 9 o clock so we took them all home. Story doesn’t end here. Coming back home we saw a lot of weird stuff. One kid so stinking hi off plumbing glue. A drunk picking up bottles of the street and drinking out of them, just a lot of weird stuff and turning the corner by our house two men ran up to us. At first I had no idea what was going on. They demanded my companions cell phone (it was a crappy one from the mission), and mine too (not so crappy) and his watch and searched us for our wallets. (Which we never have) I wasn’t about to give up my phone but one of them had a pistol in his hand. I'm still not sure if it was real but for the sake of the doubt I gave it up. Really bad robbers these guys. One took my agenda out of my back pocket and while they were running away he dropped it and tried to pick it up but couldn’t. Through all this, my heartbeat never got excited I never got scared or anxious. It was rather weird. My comp actually said "I'm a real missionary now! " We walked to some member’s house to call the assistants and report the numbers. And went to bed. I thought of something dad told me. If they are going to the extent to steal. They must need it worse than I do. The Lord protects His servants. Well, that’s about it. I slept in till 8 today trying to recuperate from the week. I’m not sure I’ll be able too. But anyway. Pray for my health. I'm praying for you all. Be safe and love each other. Oh ya, I forgot. That family that got baptized has had a lot of problems between themselves. About Wednesday when we visited them we were going to talk about baptism. But they were fighting so much and just pointing fingers. We decided to sing a duo of I am a child of God to invite the spirit and in the prayer I received the impression to do an activity I used to hate. I shared a scripture about charity and love and we all went around and said good things about the rest. It was a bit hard for them to only say "nice things" but it was so good. The atmosphere changed and the result was a greater dedication to say 1 nice thing about someone every day. And a baptismal date=) . Mom I know I’ve got a long ways to go on developing a more pure love but thank you for what you’ve taught and are teaching me. I'm trying. Love you all ---Elder Solomon