Puchica vos Cipote

August 9, 2010

Puchica vos Cipote

First of all here is my address:

2000 Westborough Drive
Kenwood Club at The Park Apts. #1109
Katy, TX, 77449

This last week has been pretty brutal. It's incredibly hot, every single day like 99 or 100 degrees and the humidity is just horrifying. But I think I'm somewhat used to it now. Every night when we come home I am completely drenched in sweat, I usually get home and wring the sweat out of my clothes. Luckily my sweat doesn't seem to smell too bad or to even have a smell at all, but my companion, on the other hand probably has the worst smelling sweat I've ever smelt. On saturday we were biking and saw some murderous looking blue clouds on the horizon. We decided to stop by one last referral and then try to beat it back home before the storm hit. We didn't make it... I remember peddling furiously looking up at the mass of gray death in the skies and trying to race the clouds. Well we didn't escape and we got caught in the downpour. We might as well have jumped into a pool we were absolutely soaked when we made it back to the apartment, my shoes only just finished drying this morning. It was fun though. I was going to attach a picture of me when we got back when I was completely soaked but we took the pictures on Elder Rupp's camera and he forgot to bring it today. It was pretty fun though, well not really but we were laughing the whole way back as we biked through the rain.

The area is going good now. When I got here it was pretty dead and we had like 10 lessons last week, this week we've whipped it back into shape and we've doubled our lessons. There are lots of opportunities to baptize people here. Quite a few part member families who aren't baptized for stupid reasons like not married, don't care, work on sundays, afraid of offending extended family, offended by members of the ward. Dumb reasons that can prove difficult to overcome but I'm not too worried about it. I have high hopes for this area it may very well prove to be my most fruitful are so far. From the part-member families in our area alone is an easy half dozen or so.

Uhh.... I'm not sure what else I have to say... Oh yeah, so I guess I hit my year mark this last Thursday. It came out of nowhere, took me by surprise. I'm going downhill now and it's going terribly fast, since that Thursday time has flown, actually it slowed down on sunday at church. Those 3 hours still feel like 6 hours. I don't really feel different, I don't know how if I've even changed or not, I probably have but don't realize it. The only difference that I can detect between me now and me a year ago is that now I have the ability to power nap, and don't have too much trouble getting to sleep at night anymore since I'm exhausted all of the time.

Well that's all I have to write about today. Aidan's art thing looks cool, so that picture of the face is his? I thought for sure it couldn't be his because their weren't any snails in it. Aidan looks a lot older, he looks a lot like me and that's kind of scary. Okay, I'm tired of typing. Oh wait, one more thing. So I have a new favorite spicy snack, they're called Zakkis, it's a mexican thing, these spicy little corn chip things that are chile-lime flavoured, actually they come in multiple flavours but the 'fuego' ones are the best that are chile-lime. They definitely beat Hot-Cheetos. It never ceases to amaze me that EVERYTHING taste better with chile and lime, the mexicans surely made an epoch making discovery. So get some sometime soon, you ought to be able to find them at Wal-Mart or any gas station. I love you all, hasta luego.

-- Elder Rice