October 22, 2007

Hello everybody! Everything is great out here.

A warm welcome to baby Eva! What a cute little girl! And thanks to Chris for getting me pics so quickly, I really appreciate it.

And thanks to everyone who sent me letters and emails, especially Dad, I always love hearing your thoughts and how you're doing. I'm praying for you a ton.

Well this week was a little tough for me. I'm starting to think that I'm the only person in El Paso who hasn't knocked over a 7-eleven. We have five investigators who have to wait before they can be baptized because they have comitted serious crimes before. You could say that the atonement is in full effect down here.

I have one pretty funny/weird/gross experience to share with you. Beware, it isn't for the faint of heart so proceed with caution:

We went on splits with the DL and his companion this past week which meant I was driven out to another area and got to spend the day doing missionary work with our DL's companion.
Ok, I need to insert some background information really quick. Everyone here has these screen doorish things that are metal and thicker than screen doors so you can barely see through them and they're really annoying because a lot of times people will leave them closed when you're knocking doors.
Ok so Elder Guymon (DL's companion) and I are knocking doors and we get to this one door and it's a woman and she's got a son who's acting a little funny. She opens the door really quick to shake our hands and then closes it quickly as her child makes a dash for the door. Just seemed kinda weird but I didn't think anything of it.
Well we tell her the message of the restoration and she seems to like it but she says that she can't come to church because of her son. At this point we see a nurse in scrubs walking around the back of her house and we realize this kid has some problems. We're just starting finishing up talking with her when the child reaches up and asks her to pick him up. She does so and all of the sudden he BITES HER FACE!
We can't really see what's going on because of the screen door but she yells "OH MY GOSH! HE JUST BIT A CHUNK OUT OF MY FACE!"
Needless to say, Elder Guymon and I didn't hang around to see too much more, we pretty much said "bye" and booked it.

So that's my one crazy crazy story for the week.

Oh, side note: Our appartment isn't up to code at all so we're getting moved out pretty soon. You're fine sending letters to my address here up through the end of this week but it's going to change pretty soon.

My Spanish is progressing, slowly but surely. I don't know why but I'm really quite good at speaking but I just have a really tough time with understanding. Especially since no one down here is educated and they all talk in slang.

Just realized that I'm almost out of time. Wish I had more, sorry.

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Wilson