Hey fam,
Sorry for not writin earlier.... We hiked a mountain today and we ended up gettin back late. I got burnt, but its not my fault. When we left in the morning it was really cloudy and when we got to the top all the clouds went away. It was a fun trip. It was a good hike and we even had to scale some cliffs. I`ll send the pictures a.s.a.p. We went with the same family that took us last week to the tour of the centro. They are awesome. It`s the family Zarate. When we visit Queretaro (when you come down) we will have to go out to eat with them or somethin. They take good care of me.
First off, !!!ITS A GIRL!!!! I`m so pumped for Kurt and Carli. That will be so much fun for them. Just pray that she ends up being like the Carli now and not the Carli as a little girl...for future references, check family home videos from when Carli was 6 to age.....18...ish... : ) Just Kiddin Carli, you know I love ya!
So it was a pretty good week. REALLY busy as always, but fun. A lot of things went on this week so instead of writing in my journal (since I`ve been a slacker lately) we made a list of all the funny/important/spiritual things that happened.
First, for my birthday (even though I didnt get your package at the interviews with Pres. Nancollas) I bought myself a pretty sweet Mexico jumpsuit. It is the jumpsuit that the players of the Mexico soccer team will wear in the world cup. That was a gift that I bought myself with the money that I had been savin up.
Leaving the mall there were some t.v`s on and I glanced up to see NFL network. It just so happened to be the Ravens playing the Chargers when Todd made the winning touchdown. I was tempted to watch, but luckily it was already the last 4 minutes of the game and Elder Memmott and I got to watch it a little. That was pretty sweet. I figured it was my birthday so I didnt feel to horrible afterwards watchin t.v.
We had a pretty crazy experience on Thursday night. We went to San Juan (which is 2 hours away) to do baptismal interviews. We had the interviews at 8:30, but the bus driver was retarded and we ended up getting there at like 9:00. The interview went extremely long because the lady talked a lot and then decided that she didnt want to get baptized and then she did and then she didnt and we talked about it for almost an hour. It was probably the longest baptismal interview EVER. Anyways, we got out of there at 10 and tried to find a taxi as fast as possible to get to the bus station to go back to the city. You could imagine 2 white kids walking in the middle of the street at 10-10:30 at night yelling and laughing about random stuff to try to take away our bad moods of maybe not being able to make it on time to the bus station. After walking for about 15 minutes we find a taxi and he took us to the bus station to find out that there were no more busses to go to Queretaro.
On top of that all the taxi drivers wanted to charge us a ridiculous amount of money to get to the house of the other Elderes. We got pretty frustrated and instead of giving in to the lame taxi drivers we started walkin. We were kind of in a funny mood and we just planned on walking an hour to the Elders house at like 11 at night. Leaving the bus station we whistled down another taxi that was just pullin in and told him the price that we wanted. He accepted and finally at about 12 at night we show up to their house. They had 2 little mattresses and one extra blanket for each of us. We had to sleep in our missionary clothes and it was not a fun night. Especially since the next morning at `6:30 we left to go back to our area. What a night.... It`ll be a good memory and I was glad that Elder Memmott and I were together to make it fun instead of being frustrated the whole night. We made the best of the situation.
Also.... I made crepes. Elder Memmott is a witness that I made them really good even though it was hard doin it on a normal pan. It was sweet though. I havent had crepes in almost 2 years.
Update on Javier and Laura`s family.....
Wednesday Laura`s grandma died so she went to the state of Mexico for the funeral. She said that everything was good to come back before Sunday, but then she let us know on Friday that her uncle died 2 days later. Sooooo.... the whole family left to Mexico. It was frustrating, but there wasn´t much we could do. We have been praying everyday and this week we fasted for them. I hope everything works out so they come back this next week, but they arent sure. I really hope so though, because it is pretty sure that I might have changes next week. (this transfer has FLOWN by) I only have 2 left....weird. Anyways thats that about their family. We saw a little progress with Xachitl before they left, but she still hasn`t accepted to get baptized.
President in my interview told me that it is possible that I might go back to Atotonilco. It`s a zone that is doing just alright right now, but it would be cool to end where I started. I would actually end exactly where I started. My first 2 areas were Apaxco and Atotonilco. Right now, the zone leaders in that zone have BOTH of those areas so that will be cool to go back and see my converts there and be able to go back and have more success then the first time (now that I have a little bit more experience) I would go with Elder Foster. (that would be 3 gringos in a row) He is a stud though. He works hard and is known to baptize so that`s good.
Anyways, this should be a good week next week. We have a lot of things to do. We should have at least 3 baptisms. The baptisms of Fabian, Juana and Joselin and I really hope that Javiers` family gets baptized before I leave so that Elder Memmott and I can come back in a year to see them get sealed in the temple. Keep praying for them please! I am also really excited for general conference. Maybe next general conference I`ll get to go. That would be sweet. It`s not the same listening in spanish then feeling their testimonies in English.
Well im going to send some pictures and run to the house.
Thanks for the love and the letters!
Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap
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