6 months down!

6 months down!

Saturday Carlos, Tonantzin, and Gloria were baptized. Eduardo still needs a little time, but it was a great service anyways, and there was a lot of time spent doing confirmations Sunday. I also take care to record in my journal each ordinance I perform, and I´m trying to make journal writing a habit.

The BoM loving family has some difficulties, including not being married and the lady being married to someone else from years ago. They also had a daughter die some years ago and need to find a new place to keep her because the place where the body is storied right now ends its contract before too long and if they don´t have somewhere else they throw the body out. There´s a lot to overcome with them, but as far as we´ve seen so far they´re willing to progress and do what´s necessary to be an eternal family. I pray that continues.

I´m also right now thinking about what it would be like to study at the BYU Jerusalem Center. Right now I haven´t a clue how I would pay for it, but it would be a fantastic experience.

There is a tiny pyramid here, I´ll see if I can convince my companion to go one monday. As far as Aztec, I´m not learning much of that since I´m in the city all the time now, but I have discovered that I can read Portuguese. My Spanish is decent now, but It´s still not at the level I´d like.

Today was an interesting p-day as well, as we played volleyball for a while and later went to the house of another missionary, Elder Gomez, who goes home in a week. We celebrated that and two birthdays (and wednesday I can celebrate 6 months in the mission) with soaking one another and stuffing cake in the birthday missionary´s faces.

Not much else has changed other than that, we´ve been very focused in the baptisms, and now that they´re done we´ll see what other adventures and stories I run into. Next week are transfers again. We´ll see if I´m left to complete 6 months straight in Colima or if I´m moved somewhere else.

Our apartment has 2 bedrooms and one bathroom. It´s close to KFC and Soriana, and it has a front patio (more like a garage) and a place to wash clothes. No grass. I´ve taken more to sleeping in my bed rather than the hammock due to the mosquitos, but it´s getting hotter and hammocks are really comfy, so we´ll see. The clothes situation is fine right now as well (i´ll get you shirt sizes next week), but I´d love as many pictures as you´re willing to send.

Well I´ve got to go. We´ll see if I can get some baptism photos soon, but I´m not sure I trust this cyber café and I don´t want this computer to eat my SD card. Take care, and I´ll write soon. Mother´s day is pretty soon too, so I´ll let you all know how that´s supposed to work out as well.

Love,
Elder Lund