Hello Fam and friends,

This week was rather quite interesting, we had lots of work to do and very little time to do it. to start off with was the zone leader council. which took up half Tuesday and all of Wednesday. Tuesday to set it up and Wednesday to do it. after that we had little tie to work in our own area which was involved in splitz with Apodaca which is in the city but still a half an hour away from where we are. it was quite interesting.... of course there is the normal chat of hey what you gonna do when you get back? what did you do when you were at home? many people are surprised when i tell them that i worked in a pumice mine plant, they find it very extreme, even though I see it as something normal. he also wanted to here one of the stories i have thought up so i explained it to him after we had finished our nightly planning. the kid doesn't like these kinds of things, he´s a baseball jock that wants to be a team player scout someday, but he said that even with those barriers that he has his attention was called :) made me feel good. anyway......

This week we were trying to find Martha who had her baptismal interview last Saturday but has no desires to be baptised yet. she has come to church constantly for like three months now. she just doesn't feel that she is ready. but when she didn't come to church this week we knew something was wrong. we also hadn't seen her dog all week, normally the little french poodle comes running whenever we knock on her door. So visiting her roughly painted pink home we were surprise by excited barks from the dog, and we could see someone behind her house sweeping water around on the patio, although we couldn´t tell who it was do to clothing that had been hung in the narrow alleyway that leads to the back porch of her house.  so we shouted until the woman came out to see what the problem was and when she emerged from behind the dripping blanket strung across the walkway we recognized Martha´s daughter Isabel. She told us that Martha had taken vacation days and left the state and had been in Sabínas coahuila since last Saturday night... she must have left exactly after the baptismal interview... we also did lots of service this week, we helped a lady tie her dog up so that it would stop attempting to hang itself from over top the concrete railing and i had to explain to an ignorant woman about chickens and salmonella so that she would move it out of her house and tell the small children running around not to touch it and if they did to watch their hands. i also clipped one of its wings so that it wouldn´t escape the cinder block fence that is the poor bird´s cage; i also clipped the front of its beak off so that when it pecks it wont draw blood... again.. haha, in a couple of weeks i will have to go back and clip its spurs.... its starting to get big and its going to start crowing too. we´ll see how long they last before they turn that poor young rooster into a KFC main dish. :) Its been a fairly exciting week and things seem to be going good so until next week,