Chamuco en la Regadera

April 25, 2011

Hello family.

Again another mostly boring week.

On the bright side after long weeks of fruitlessness we found two new investigators and they accepted the challenge of baptism. They're some family of a less active family in the ward. They actually live right next door to them as well. It's another Mother-Daughter combo, Minerva and Dianna being the last one. They're named Rosa and Angelica, both seem much more intelligent than our last mother-daughter combo, they also have they're own car too. Prospects are looking bright.

The downside is that they are just as Minerva and Dianna, we call them every night to remind to read two pages of the pamphlet we left with them and they still haven't done it. And perhaps the biggest "threat" would be that Rosa has a husband, who doesn't want anything to do with us whatsoever. We can't even teach them in their own house, we have to teach them next door in their mothers house which is a crazy nigthmare as it is a tiny house yet there are always at least a couple dozen people going in and out. We call it the house of short-shorts because in addition to the army of small children running in and out of the door there are like 5 or 6 teenage girls going in and out of there always wearing short shorts and high heeled sandals that hispanic women are so fond of -we've never seen them wear anything else ever, even the little girls who are 5-6-7 years old wear short shorts and high heeled sandals, we didn't even know they made that stuff child size! It's difficult to teach in such a place with people coming in and out and yelling at each other, doors slamming, the old grandma yelling at the children and chihuahua puppies everywhere. It's just a huge mess, a lot of clutter and garbage all crammed into a tiny house. And they live a couple streets away from the train tracks so periodically some enormous train will just roar through and lay on the horn like nothing else. I always have a headache after having a lesson over there.

Other than that things are the same. The ward is actually doing a lot better with, well, running itself, and keeping up with our recent converts. Oh this is pretty funny, our last recent convert, Tomas, we've noticed they keep pulling him out of elder's quorum every week, and we've been wondering what they've been doing with him. He has no idea, we asked him one day and he said it was just another class the same as elder's quorum, one day we asked the 1st counselor while at his house for dinner and he said that they've been taking him to be with the High Priests.... We didn't even bother to ask why, who knows what motives the ward leadership has. We thought about it a long time and honestly couldn't come up with a rational explanation as to why the high priests group would be better for Tomas, he's not that old or anything. Well we decided it's not worth worrying about. We only need to worry about if he actually comes to church or not, what they do with him there is up to them.

So yup... That's about all interesting that has happened lately. I hope you all have a good day.

-- Elder Rice