June Ending

Hola!

First off, as far as the rain is concerned, that's a whole summer affair according to Sister Crickmore.  So, I'm about 1/3 of the way through the rainy season.  Still, my umbrella is holding up fine, and everything really does dry out like you said, so I'll be fine.  We do get some pretty good lightning as well, and it makes me miss sitting out watching the thunderstorms in Utah.

Speaking of rain, I'm glad to hear you guys are heading up to Oregon this year.  It's weird, this is the first time I can really remember that I won't be going up there for the reunion.  I would love to go to Mo's, if only to understand what everything on the menu is.  It's amazing how many things there are in the restaurants here that I have never heard of.  It's almost like it's a foreign country or something.

As far as senior couples go, I believe there are two or three sets in the mission, but there are none in this area so I haven't really had the chance to work with any of them.  Still, I'm sure they wish there were more here.  It always seems like they want more senior missionaries.

As far as new things this week, we went to the center of the city to do some things for my green card on Tuesday.  This involved three hours of public transportation to get there.  (We may have gotten lost once or twice.)  It was also my first time experiencing the metro, which is like trax, but more shakey.  Anyways, we eventually reached immegration at 11, when we were told to be there at 9.  When we got there, nobody was there.  We called the secretaries, and where should they be but on the metro.  Long story short, they showed up at about 1 with the rest of the new missionaries.  Needless to say, we were really glad we hadn't gotten there at 9.  Then we started the two hour process of getting everything taken care of.  We finally finished with everything at about 3, and we were able to get something to eat.  That was the nice thing about this trip, they have american restaurants there.  We ate at Panda Express, and it was great.  Then we started on our journey back, which was a bit shorter since we knew where to go, but was still a really long trip.  Needless to say, we may have been a little tired by the time we got back home that day.

That baptism I was talking a couple weeks ago is back on for this Saturday.  She is really excited, and has worked really hard for this.  Everything is set, so barring some unseen disaster, everything should go through.

That's about it for this week.  The work continues, and I'm glad to be a part of it.  It's exciting to hear about Hayden's call.  I'm sure it will be a great mission for him.  Have fun in Oregon, and say hi for me.  I love you.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long

P.S.  Yes we use an internet cafe for on P-days.  There are actually a lot of them here.