....Ima be a "TIO" ......again (Tio = Uncle)

From your emails it sounds like it was a great week for all the Heap clan. First impressions from your emails.....I`m SO pumped for Todd and Ashley. You have no idea. I`ll get to know Drew (even though he will almost be 2 years old) and the new sobrino on the way. Thats tight. Brad won his game by HOW MUCH? Were you playin the playoffs or were you playin an 8th grade girls team Bead. You are goin to have to modify your highlight film to send me to it. I definately want to see the play where you truck the kid and rumble 35 yards. Love it. Oh and that was a really ``CUTE`` picture of you Bead in the newspaper. The camera guy should know that your helmet is supposed to go on your head and that your pads should go under your shirt, but its cool. You`re a stud. haha

It was great week for me as well. Miracles in the work of the Lord. We did some interchanges and we got to do a lot of teachin this week. Not only to investigators, but helping other missionaries as well. We completed our goal as a zone even getting better than our goal in baptisms. It was great.
Im just going to skip the days of the week because enough happened yesterday to make up for the whole week. Yesterday it was Elder Francis`birthday so we had to make it a good day. So we were planning on baptizing Abraham (28) and Marisol (25) (They are brother and sister) before the services and then confirm them, but Satan just got in the way a bunch. I guess the story goes back to Friday night when Abraham told us that they told him that he had to work on Sunday. We talked him into calling his work so that he can get the day off and go and get baptized. He did and it turned out fine. So everything was set. They were excited and we were going to wake up early to go fill up the font and everything would have been great. We woke up at like 4 in the morning and did a morning walk to the church to find that there were no lights in the building. I had the lighter to turn on the boiler so we used that as the light. So we turned it on and went back to the house. We took a lil ``cat nap`` (haha) and then got dressed and went to the baptism. We get to the church at like 7:45 (the baptism was going to start at 8) and the water was only up to like half a step. We were so confused and then realized that the pump to get the water up out of the ground probably didn`t work because the electicity was out. We were so determined to figure it out and luckily (like normal Mexican style) Abraham, Marisol and their fam showed up late. I said a lil prayer and we tried to turn on the breakers and fix the problem, but Satan worked pretty hard to not let us succeed. Then I got an idea. I called Elder Christiansen and told him to fill up his font at his church (his church is like 20 minutes away) He told me that it was already half full because they had baptized the day before. He did us a huge favor and went to the church to fill it up. He had to fight off his ward who was having a breakfast before church in the baptismal font room. I love Elder Christiansen. He`s my hero.
Meanwhile, Abraham and Marisol and fam. got to our church. We jumped in a bus and went to Coacalco where elder Christiansens`church is. We got there had a quick baptismal service because we had to get back by 10 a.m. for the confirmations. It was CRAZY. Satan tried hard, but I`ve realized in my 20 years of life that if we are determined to do the things of the Lord and keep the commandments we will always succeed over the adversary. Thats what happened. It was a great birthday present for Elder Francis. We got back right at 10 and they got confirmed and we could relax a little bit the rest of the day.

We ate a ton because all of the members invited us over for Francis`s birthday... One hermana even said that she wanted us to give her a blessing (just so that we would come over and she could give us cake) It was really funny. We were like, so do you want your blessing hermana. She was like ``oh, no, it was just an excuse to get you over here``

Other highlights of the week include:

Finding a slingshot in our house and using it to fight off dogs and hit birds

Using an hermanas grill to cook carne asada and I made spaghetti with chipotle hot sauce. Soooo good

Playing basketball this morning with Elder Christiansen his comp Elder Hernandez, Elder Palomec and Elder Fillerup from Cali. It was way tight. There was a rim that was bent down a lil bit and I dunked it.

I bought a new tie last monday that is way sweet.

We are going to Chili`s today for Elder Francis birthday and also because it was Elder Golledges`birthday too. We are goin to go a bunch of missionaries.

Well thats pretty much it
Have a Grrrrreat week

Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap
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