Hey, mom -
I´ve got a couple of stories this week.
First. We had an earthquake! It was small, and a lot of people didn´t even notice it, but we did. On Thursday, and about 8:50 in the morning, Elder Romero said "Esta temblando" (It´s trembling). I looked, and sure enough, the house was slowly rocking back and forth (slightly, but surely). Lullaby! That´s the first earthquake that I´ve ever noticed in my life. It was 6.2 in Veracruz, and 5.something here.
Second. I´m sure you probably already saw the photos - not something you see everyday, huh? We were walking to our next appointment, and we turned a corner, and there´s a flaming car right there! Wow..... It looked awesome (maybe not to the owner of the car). Nobody was hurt. Apparently, the owner had just taken it to a mechanic, and the idiot left a block of some sort in the exhaust. So it heated, and heated, and heated, and heated, and BOOM! Luckily, the houses in front of the car had cisterns (huge containers of water, because the water doesn´t come to the houses every day), and one of the houses had a whole bunch of buckets. So we, along with a whole bunch of neighbors, helped to put out the fire. Then the policemen and the fire truck showed up.
What was funny about that, was that when we saw the car on fire, we stood there for a couple of seconds staring at it. Then the first words that my companion said were, "Your camera!" - not "where´s some water?" or something else like that.
I´ve been on the mission for almost seven and a half months!!! Time flies! I´m old. I´m going to die in a few short 85 years... I´m depressed now..... :( Just kidding. :)
Nothing much else to say. I still haven´t seen a drop of rain here (except a couple of times that it seemed that an angel sneezed - a drop here, and a drop there). But the last time I saw rain was in Provo, in the MTC. It´s a treat when we see clouds, especially when they actually cover the sun.
The church is true! Keep smiling, and keep following the Lord.
Elder Bartlome
Sure glad you had your camera. You've got proof. Glad no one was hurt.
ReplyDeleteYou can live to be 105, not me. My mom will be 85 tomorrow. Can't believe you've been out for over 6 months already. Time flies when you're having fun.
I'll take sneezing angels, over showering ones any day. This morning it was a nice balmy 60 degrees so I wore sandals & capris. Tonight I had to get something out of the car & it was SNOWING!! I had to dig out my snow boots.
Hugz,