September 7th

Alrighty everyone,

I'm just getting to email right now but whatever. This past week has been a little useless. Monday was P-day nothing to report (talking about monday the 29th). Tuesday, was kinda busy, we went and visited Hermana Rincon, who gives the missionaries peanuts all the time for some reason, and then helped move our black neighbors in (all of our neighbors are black). We taught a woman named Francesca Casco. This woman, is in an emotional wreck. She was married to her husband for 25 years and then he just got up and left her for some other girl, her two kids are with her husband because she is too much of a wreck to go to work as a physical therapist. Her mom is on marijuana all the time, her cousins who live there; one is recovering from a meth addiction as an alchoholic, one is recovering from a meth addiction and is completely sober. Her brother is the only sane one in the household. He has his own issues, but, he will be the biggest help. We taught a bunch of other lessons that day but I don't remember. Wednesday, was a good day as well. We taught Gustavo, an eternal investigator of about a year, and taught the first lesson. He knows everything and we want to get him baptized before Meldrum goes home. We taught, the Aguilars (part member family) and Pablo (less-active) the second lesson. They were both kind of so-so lessons, mostly because my spanish is still improving. Then we taught Bianca. Family at home, if you will pray for anyone pray for Bianca. She is a LA who got baptized at 13 with her family just because the rest of her family was. She needs to drop her stupid Born-Again Christian beliefs. It's ridiculous. Thursday, we taught Francesca again, This is the actual day we met her family (gay bro, cousins, mom etc.). That part of thursday went well. Then we ate dinner. We ate flautas which are homemade taquitos. Delicious with some homemade salsa and salad and all that good stuff. Friday, Meldrum wants to DIE. He spent about 5 hours with diarrhea in the bathroom Thursday night. I was fine, until later that day when i took a nap because we stayed in the rest of the day after ZDM because of Meldrum's sickness. I woke up after about two hours and puked/dry heaved every half hour until Saturday. HORRIBLE. Sunday was fine we had 3 of 7 progressing investigators at church. It was an ok week. It's weird to think in 4 days I'll have been out 4 months. It's going to go by pretty quick. Well I love you all and miss you all.

-Matt