Summer & Pictures

Hola,

Well, another week gone.  This week was pretty good for us here.  As you said, we are right in the heart of the rainy season here.  Recently it feels like the sky has been saving up the rain for about three days and then dumping it all out at once.  So the days without rain have been nice, but when the rain comes, it comes hard and fast and long.  The worst day for rain this week was Thursday.  We had about 5 or 6 hours of it during the day.  And it wasn't just sprinkling.  It got to the point where we had to take refuge for about an hour next to a tortilleria.  It was nice because tortillerias are hot and dry, the perfect match for cold rain.  Since then we haven't gotten too much, so I think we're in for another big one soon.

Other than that, this week has been more or less normal.  We had divisions with one of the companionships in our district on Wednesday.  I went to their area with an Elder who will be going home in about a month.  It was fun getting to work with him a bit.  I also saw a sign that I personally thought was hillarious on the door of one of the members we went to visit.  Obviously it's in Spanish, but I'm still going to include a picture of it with an explination.  Other than that though, it was business as usual.  On Saturday, we had a Family Home Evening with a part member family that we have been teaching.  We talked about the importance of the family, and all in all it went pretty well.  It was pretty nice, since they invited another investigator to the family home evening.  At the end I got to mess with their minds a little bit with a game I've learned during my time in the mission, which is always fun.  Oh, and they gave us some pretty interesting food at the end.  (I'll include a picture of that as well.)  It was a good night all in all, and I'm expecting good things from this family.

That's about it for news for me this week.  It sounds like things are pretty busy for you guys right now.  Hopefully everything will calm down a bit soon.  I am kind of glad to hear that dad is no longer working for Legacy House.  Like you said, it sure took a lot out of him working there.  Hopefully this will help him out a bit more.

OK, I love you, and I'll talk to you later.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long

These are called chicatanas.  They are a delicacy in Oaxaca.  They actually tasted OK, and had the texture of popcorn.  (Yes I did eat some.  I have a video but I haven’t had much luck in sending those through.)

Here’s the sign I talked about.  Allow me to explain.  Here, a lot of houses have these signs:

So, the other sign is making fun of this one using what a lot of mexicans love most: anime, in particular, Dragon Ball.  If you want to know what they say, there’s always google translate.