Wow, you are all super busy this
week! Not a day wasted. I hope that everything is in line with Girls camp and
all; I know that it will turn out great!
Sorry I couldn’t be there to
help, and to load up the trailers :)
Wow, those sound like some
awesome cookies, Megan and Haylee! I think that mom is right; it would be hard
to judge. I never would have thought about adding pringles to cookies :) Glad
to hear that the girls are having a lot of fun this summer, baking, swimming,
and swatting spiders off their teacher´s back! :)
All the youths that I have
talked to here all say that they are bored to death for summer vacation. What’s
up with that? It might be because it is so hot here that no one wants to do
anything, My companion told me that if it was this hot at his house he wouldn’t
leave even to go to 'tienda' (shop, as in almost every corner there is a little
shop of sorts :). It really is hot here though. We have entered the Canicula,
the hottest part of the year. Everyone dreads it. I am thankful for sun screen.
And oh yeah our house is on the second story and doesn’t have working AC. just
fans and, to sleep, I get a washcloth wet and freeze it, and then put it on my
forehead to cool down to sleep. It works!
And my toes want to let me know
that even though I am in Mexico, nothing has changed. Two more in grown
toenails! One on each big toe! I need to call the president’s wife to see if I
can see the Doc this week. One is infected a little, but we keep moving on!
I am also enjoying me decision
to buy pancake mix to make pancakes every day for breakfast (ok, only three
times this week :). I had to experiment a little, being without a cup measurer
and with an electric stove whose lowest setting is too hot for pancakes (for
the heat?) but by the third time they turned out pretty darn good :) I still
miss the chocolate chip cookies and brownies from home, though :) I think I
will bake a lot for the first little while when I get home :)
But just like at home, I am
spending my mornings on P day to do a little bit of house cleaning, and it
feels so good to some manual labor, even with the heat and sweat dripping off
my face :)
Yesterday they anounced the
Changes for the Transfer, but everyone in my ward is staying the same. Which
means that Elder Hernandez and I will be here to baptize Damian and his family!
(if they will just come to church!) Maybe we are going to baptize two of their
daughters this Saturday, but they didn’t come to church this week because they
had a birthday party.... priorities priorities :)
My Companion and I focused a lot
on strengthening the ward this week. Bring members with us to visit other
members, so that they feel comfortable with each other and with us. This ward
is sooo small! And many are very new and lack experience, and don’t feel
capable to help with missionary work. So we have been visiting them and asking
what we can do to strengthen the ward. We got some good ideas. the bad thing is
that we didn’t get to see a lot of investigators... Damian and his family, who
are the closest to baptism, have been hard to find lately.
I got to participate in Church a
lot today. Saturday night the Bishop asked me to give a talk on covenants, so I
did and took up like 20 minutes. I was able to see my flaws still in my
Spanish, and is was a little unorganized, but I did ok for it being in my second
language and with short notice. Before I spoke, I also got to bless the
sacrament in Spanish too. after Sacrament meeting, my companion and I were also
asked to teach the Gospel Principles class. The topic was Missionary work. I am
not a very good teacher, by way of being up in front of a class, but my companion
is thank goodness ;)
things really are going good
here, I am being the Chocolate Chip and resisting the Heat of the Oven ;)
Thanks for all the support, and
I wish you the best in prep for Girls Camp (as I know that the entire family is
involved :)
Love ya lots, :)
Elder Redford
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