Hello people that might be reading my letter. I would like to say…I love you all!!!!
So this week we didn’t have a baptism (I know sad day). I had to make the decision to let her go through the baptismal interview and see if she would pass (and I wasn’t confident that she would) or tell her to wait a week. So I took the path with less likeliness of her feeling bad and not wanting to get baptized later. I just hope that we can help her get more prepared in this week or in the next.
So this week we went to help Hermano Valles to cut down bushes for fire wood. Here in Tlahualilo, almost everyone has water heaters run by fire and not by gas, so we went to help him cut some wood. I’m pretty sure in English the name of the tree is Mesquite (I said bush because they didn’t look like trees…just like over grown bushes). When we were cutting the trees my companion did something stupid. He was trying to remove the trees without touching them (because they had thorns), so he was using the back of the ax to do it. While he was trying to remove the tree limbs the limb twisted and stabbed him in the head with its thorns. Well, he pushed the tree away, and I started to make fun of him for doing it in the first place (the tree had stabbed his head underneath his hair). As I was making fun of him, i noticed that he was starting to bleed from his hair line. I told him, and he received tp from hermano valles to clean it up. He stopped working for a few min. to stop the bleeding and went to the car. When he came back, he told me that as he was sitting in the car trying not to vomit and pass out. I guess he is a little squeamish of his own blood. I couldn’t help but laugh a little about what had happened to him. In my defense, he would have done the same thing if it had happened to me, but it was funnier when we came back to the house and the hermano looked at my companion and found a thorn stuck in his scalp. When he took it out, the thorn was about an inch long. I was wondering how he didn’t feel it…ha ha!!
So this week, I found out something interesting. Well all my mission, I was wondering when I would be in an area that hermano steven gines served in. The funny thing is, I have been in this area for about 3 months, and I just found out this last week that this was the area in which he finished his mission hahahaha. I found out when we were talking to hermana valles and she told me that an elder had given her his BOM right before he went home. I asked her which missionary and she responded, Elder Gines. Then my brain went off telling me I knew him hahaha. It’s funny it took me so long to learn that.
This Sunday I went to bermajillo for the district conference. It was interesting because sacrament meeting was 3 hours long. I don’t know if that is legal, but I really can’t say much. It was cool because all the stakes and districts in the north had the same day for their conference. I’m sure of this because it was a broadcast from salt lake for all of the North Mexico. Elder Oaks gave a wonderful talk. It was interesting that his talk could have helped so many people in this area, but only 5 people went to the conference.
Well my family and friends, I need to go. Sorry! Oh, I'm still in tlahualilo with elder cortes for the next 6 weeks at the least. Yeah!!!!!!
Love you all, and I hope you all have a great week.
Love, ELDER PACK
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