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| Zone Conference with Elder Johnson |
Hi mom!
I´m jealous of the cool air up there - yes, 90 Farrenheit is cool. I don´t know what it is here, but it´s more than 90, and it´s pretty much 100% humidity. I get drenched in sweat if I just sit there without a really good fan and/or air conditioning. But we carry around hand-towells all day (actually, Elder Vasquez lost his - I felt really sorry for him, but he didn´t want to use mine, which had a week´s worth of my sweat engrained into it). That helps. And no, it doesn´t get cool at night. Oh, and we don´t have a water heater, but I took a hot shower today anyway - I took the shower in the afternoon, and the sun had heated up the water.
Oh, well, I really shouldn´t complain about the weather. I´m getting used to it, and it does no good to complain. Just do me a favor, and enjoy the cool air that you have up there in Utah.
We worked hard this week - we found 9 new people, and one of them is part of a family that is awesome - I´m sure that they´ll get baptized. We had 7 investigators in church yesterday - it was awesome! And from what we heard, they all enjoyed it. I´m really excited about the work that we have here, and my companion is, too.
I´m glad that Elder Vasquez already knows the area and the members, because I´d be completely lost otherwise. The area is HUGE. It´s got to be at least 2 or 3 times the size of my first area in Iguala.
I´m glad to hear that everything´s going well. Tell the family hi for me. And I´m glad that you enjoyed the box. The sirvilletas (napkins) were made by a member in the Insurgentes ward in Iguala. They are used to wrap up the hot, fresh tortillas, to keep them hot and fresh (so they´re used every day, because we eat tortillas every day). You might think it´s wierd to use tortillas with every meal, but when I told someone in Iguala that we don´t use tortillas or bread with every meal, she thought that was crazy - "but it´s the bread that fills you up!"
Oh, I´ve attached a picture of my new companion, the only ones I´ve taken as of yet. Also, a picture of an awesome family in my first ward, Insurgentes. The hat that I have was given to me by the boy, called Hector. The dad´s name is Oscar, the mom is Araceli, and the daughter is Monce-rat (they only say Monce).
I look forward to recieving the pictures of Ethan in the mail - yes, I got them by email. And I look forward to the letter that Brother Peadon (might) write me (hint-hint). I´ll make it a goal to respond to handwritten letters faster, so that I might get more letters in the mission.
Oh, I saw the first prayer house that I´ve ever seen. Here, in the Zapata ward, they don´t have a chapel. They have a prayer house. It´s pretty much what would be a normal house - downstairs is where they have the Sacrament, along with some classes (cement/tile floor), and upstairs, there are some more classes. It´s a pretty good size. From what I heard, it´s a nice one, compared with some other ones, because it´s big, it has more than one room, and there are fans. No piano, no keyboard, but I´ll survive. I like to sing acapella.
Nothing much else to say - The church is true! I´ve grown more in my understanding of the church and it´s importance in the past 9 months than I have my whole life before, and I know that this church is the only church with all of the truth about God that we need to fulfill our purpose in this life.
I love you.
Elder Bartlome
