Wapiti

March 28, 2011

Hello Family, how's it going?

Not much to say this week, in fact this email will be short. I received an e-mail saying that my registration date is April 5th, which is like next week. So I'll be spending most of my time looking at classes and junk. I really have no idea what to take.

Couple of quick highlights of this week. We had another baptism. This is pretty crazy, like 3 weeks in a row of baptisms. Totally weird. Tomas was baptized, the funny thing is that we've only taught him, like 3 or 4 times. His work schedule is such that he is only available on sundays so we taught him once a week for a few weeks and then he was baptized. Something like that never happens, it was rather amazing. He's the one next to me in the picture, the two members are Hno. and Hna. Galeano, the members who are friends of Tomas and have been bringing him to church.

The only other really interesting thing that happened was that we ate octopus one day. This member family just plopped down these huge plates of octopus tentacles in front of us. They were prepared simply by boiling them with a bit of salt. But served cold. Well as always we can't be rude so we choked them down. It actually didn't taste that bad, but the texture just wasn't fun, kind of rubbery but yet mushy at the same time, and when you bit into it the suction cups on the tentacles would pop off and bounce around everywhere in your mouth. Luckily we had condiments and I was able to eat all of it after drowning it in lemon juice and burying it with lettuce, tomato, onion, and salt. Blech...

So that's all, the other pictures are of some more sweet graffiti. Oh and I will probably send an e-mail off either today or next monday with the classes I want to be signed up for. I'm thinking about maybe having Kent do it, he registers a day before me and there is this sneaky thing you can do where you have someone who registers before you sign himself up for your classes to hold a seat and then drop it right before you register. We'll see I send that e-mail soon. Well I hope you all have a good day. Peace

-- Elder Arroz