Saturday, December 27, 2008 - Baptising Fatima - Second Area

Happy Day for Fatima and me!!!

Elder Martinez, Fatima, Evalyn and me.

Our Christmas tree and all my packages from home!!!!

Elder Martinez, Fatima and Evalyn's Family, and me.

Oh Holy Night!!!!

Our District by some cool arches.....

My first baptism of Joaquin (first area).

Maybe Joaquin's son and his wife and little girl.

Elder Winkfield, Joaquin and ME.

First Day in Guadalajara with GOOSE, aka Elder Crowther.

This letter is going to be unusually short because I have maybe 10 minutes to write, I´ve been dinking around with photos. Good news is I´ve uploaded every photo from the mission and on to Walmart.com. I don´t know if you need to login to see them or not, I don´t know. Anyway I hope you enjoy! THis computer will die before I leave. Small itty bitty pieces of happy relief!! If I get my way I´ll be writing again. Also forgive me if I´m missing a few spaces, the space button doesn´t work very well. To start off, I´m glad that I´m getting a few emails from David now, the last was a little short, but very happy Christmas wishes and all that jazz. The happy part is the two baptisms we had, Evalyn and her sister Fatima. I baptized Fatima, it was pretty funny because I had to lean WAY forward to dunk her. Lol. You´ll see how small she is. Only 8 years old. ...Fatima´s cool, we´re buddies, but not as much with Evalyn. We received a 5 minute video of photos of all the different baptisms we´ve received with some really cool video clips and music. I can watch it a million times in a row and enjoy it. Lol. Now they´re going to have 2 of me. Lol. I read Elder Kellly´s emails andhe seems an infinitely better misionary than I. I woke up on time at 6:30 P day or no pday. Exercizedfor roughly 25 minutes. I don´t seem to be getting much stronger but then again I only manage to do it every 3-4 days. It´s 15 after 5 and we had district classs at 5 so Im going to wrap up a few things. I want to just love my companion and forget the little gnats that bite at our relationship. The little bites are the ones you shove aside but when you get hit by a brick,you flinch and pick it up. Always heal every wound. Lest it begins to bleed. Or attract more knats. Or mosquitos. ... or dogs. that one actually happens. Writing is beginning to clear my mind. I know my desires and now Ineedto meditate. Clean tidy, organized, loving, receptive, obedient, wise, thrifty, brave, reverent, representative, and many more.... We prepped a little and then went to playbasketball at the stake center with a few other elders. One of the elders was a little good. Even then his knowledge of rules and afew things ofthe sort was abit .... off. The rest weren´t quite as talented . LOl. Afterwards we went tobowl. 3.10 dollars for one game. Already it was 2:30 we went to lunch. KFC! turnedout to be a nightmare 6.50 for a chicken nugget. (metaphor) . Before this point though, I learnedtheydon´t accept credit cards. Iwent to anATM. To learn that 500 pesos are missing from my account. So we´ll see. Fortunately I haver you guys, andI don´t needto worry about much, exceptthatI´m going to guard the money I take from an ATM, because we think it´s hidden charges of un imaginable sorts that is the problem. I´mgoing to roll.I apologize for this horrible email.Excepttoend with a good note. I´m learning I´m in the fire and I´m not just sitting init, I´m being molded. Adios!-Jaker-----Original Message-----