May 3, 2010

Braden seems to be doing great. We cant wait to talk to him Sunday!!

hey hey hey we have been gone all day looking at mayan pyramides so we dont have very much time to email! we have an appointment at 530 and that was 5 minutes ago hahah so we just have to write way fast! last tuesday this taxi driver drove us home and we started talking to him about the church and hes like i really wanna change my life and start following christ so we got all excited and stuff and hes like i just dont know if i can be forgiven of my sins. ive killed 4 people. so that was weird. now he knows where we live too hahah he said he was gonna come to church but he didnt show up. im not sure how much progress we could really make with him until he got out of prison anyways haha poor guy then on wednesday we went to this town in our area that elder barnes has never even been to and hes been in morelia for 3 months hah funny huh its like 45 minutes away. the bus finally got us there and it was so crazy. there wasnt really anything there at all. we talked to 2 people and they both told us we should leave the town fast or else we were gonna get robbed hahaha one of the ladies we talked to was selling used clothes on the side of the road. she was using a tie to tie down her tarp roof and said that she wanted to sell it to me, so i bought it from her for 1 peso haha thats like 9 cents. i tried to pay her more but she said no and that the tie would bring me good luck. it was so filthy and had holes in it but i took it home and washed it and im wearing it right now haha if i have time to send pictures from today youll see it it really isnt too. we were walking to our first appointment the other day and this guy came up to us in the street and shook our hands and then he just started crying and said “i cant find work and my family is hungry and i know you guys are close to christ so can you say a prayer for me right now?.” so we did and it was so sad he was crying so hard it was so sad. we had our baptism saturday night! everything went way good. the water was freezing cuz we didnt have gas but other than that everything was good! we´re inviting a bunch of people to be baptized for may. it was hard when i first got here cuz there werent any investigators so we had to start from scratch but they´re all starting to progress the ones we found. today for pday we went to a place called patzcuaro. you guys should look it up its so sweet! i´ll try to send pictures but i definitely wanna go there after the mission with you guys! theres this island with a huge statue and tons of little stores and restaurants. i bought a ton of stuff and felt bad then remembered that it was like 15 dollars worth of stuff haha thats the cool thing about mexico. oh! i found out about calling for mothers day! we are gonna go to our bishops house sunday and YOU GUYS CALL US! you have to remember that part! haha you guys are supposed to call me at 6pm oclock my time, so i think thats 5 oclock pm your time. elder barnes told me that its a way long process to get the call through, so call a little bit early so we for sure have the whole time to talk! the bishops number is 443-304-0843. call some time this week and make sure it works so that we can talk for way long on sunday! so rememeber thats 6 oclock my time haha if you havent called by like 6:10pm i´ll just run to a pay phone or something haha oh yeah today we went and saw some sweet mayan ruins too. anyways i love you guys tons and miss you too! i cant wait to read your letters i just printed them all out so theyre in my backpack right now. thanks for everything and i´ll talk to you on sunday! love you guys and talk to you soon! ps. make sure brookes at the house! :O nos vemos!