...Finding Carlos

Hola Familia, December 2, 2009
Well, it sounds like you all had a great week with all the fam. Hopefully you didn’t miss me too much. Sounds like you had a sweet Thanksgiving fiesta at the house, Im jealous that I didn’t get to make it. Keep me updated when Tanner gets his call, hopefully he will get the opportunity to go the best mission in the world (Mexico City North). Im also jealous that I missed the zoo activity with my lil nieces and nephews! In case you were wondering, Dora the Explorer is a pretty big deal down here too! Haha Hopefully they all remember me, keep reminding them who their favorite uncle is alright? I haven’t looked at the pictures yet, but im excited to see the pictures that you sent from this last week. I have a couple pictures to send, but ill wait til next week when I can send some baptism pics along with it.
We had a pretty exciting week, I completed 5 months and my companion completed a year. Its crazy how fast time flies when you work hard and are having fun. We didn’t do too many cool things out of the ordinary to celebrate, but we had some fun. My companion burned a white shirt (apparently it’s a tradition) and we made a ton of pancakes Thanksgiving morning. Haha They were actually really good, my chef skills are definitely improving. Basically we just worked like normal and it payed off. We had 7 investigadores in Sacrament Meeting. Our zone leader (who was in our area last transfer) was flipping out cause the most they ever had was 2. It was kinda nice to prove to him that you can baptize and bring invest. To church here in Atotonilco. Tomorrow we are going to have 2 baptisms. Two kids 8 years old and 12 years old. We are working with their mom to get baptized too, but we still have to get her married or separated from her boyfriend. There names are Roberto and Fransisco. Ill send pictures of their baptism next week! So with those 2 baptisms we are starting off December pretty good. That’s already twice as many as the last companionship that was here did in 6 weeks. My Spanish is improving daily and the work gets more and more fun when I can communicate better.
Another cool story, we were on our way to comida with an hermana and we decided to knock one more street before we did. It was such a blessing, we found this guy named Carlos. He is like 65 years old, but apparently the missionaries taught him over 25 years ago. Apparently one day the missionaries just didn’t return (im assuming their were cambios). Carlos was really sad that they didn’t return because he wanted to get baptized like 25 years ago and the missionaries never came back. So we showed up to this guys house and he has already read the book of Mormon a couple times and he went to the open house of the temple by himself. He wanted to write his name down at the temple as a reference, but he cant read or write very well so he didn’t know how to do it. Anyways, he went to church last week and he is excited to get baptized this 14th of Diciembre. Hopefully everything works out for him, he is a stud!
It was good to hear about Todds induction to the Mesa Hall of Fame. That’s pretty sweet and it was even better to hear that the Ravens are 8-4 and Todd caught a TD. That’s tight! How are the Ravens doing in the standings…. Looking good for the playoffs?
Lets see, lIt was also good to hear that Brad got asked to Winter Formal. Ive been praying for Brad a lot so that SOMEONE would ask him. Haha jk Bead. That’s sweet how you answered brotha, very original. I would also like to tell you Bead that although you can dunk it (and I probably cant anymore) I can still own you in basketball. I hope you always remember that. Oh and im pretty dang sure I beat you in Horse like 5 times before I left! Oh and good luck in your semi game this week….. I still don’t know who you play cause no one has told me, but good luck!
Well that’s about it for this week. Not a whole lot of exciting stuff going on, but I am working hard and enjoying everything about Mexico. Im glad you all had a great week with the fam. I love you and miss you all! And although I didn’t have much of a Thanksgiving dinner, I definitely counted all of my blessings and gave thanks to my Heavenly Father for all of the many things that I have been blessed with through out my life. I love you all…. Have a great week!
Con amor,
Elder Greg Hea