8/17/2015

Hola,

Well, another week has come and gone.  This week was pretty good.  Everyone is pretty excited since the temple open house started on Friday.  The stake where I'm serving will be going four times in total, two times this Wednesday, the 19th, and two times the next Wednesday, the 26th.  We've already signed up to go both days with investigators.  Like I said, we're all pretty excited for that.  The dedication isn't until the 13th of September, so there's about a month of open house.  They've also announced that they are going to have a special tour next Sunday for women and their daughters ages 12 and up where they are going to take them through the bride's room.  (I have NO idea what that room is called in English.  It's called salon de novias in Spanish.)  So, I'll have nothing to do with that.  Just thought I would let you know.

Other than that, things are more or less the same here.  I think I mentioned our investigator Martin last week.  If not, we have an investigator named Martin.  Anyways he is coming allong pretty well.  He came to church for the first time yesterday, and signed up to go to the temple on the 26th with us.  He also reads the Book of Mormon a lot.  The last time we talked with him he had read up to 1 Nephi 8.  It was a bit funny when he was talking about what he had read.  When he talked about Lehi's vision, he called him 'aquel cuate', which would be 'that one dude' roughly translated.  Did I mention he's a 60 year old man? 

Other than that, things are more or less the same here.  It's looking like the rest of this month will be pretty busy for us here.  As far as Nick goes, the best way to get the package to me would probably be to get it to the offices of the mission.  I'm pretty sure you guys have that adress since you've sent me letters and packages there.

Well, that's about it for me this week.  I'm pretty jealous of your trip to Bear Lake.  I hope you enjoyed a raspberry shake for me.  I'm also jealous of the stars.  It's funny, but a giant city like this tends to have too much light polution, and normal polution, to be able to see all but the brightest stars.  I had not heard that they're going to remodel the Jordan River temple.  It seems like they're remodeling temples more and more frequently recently.  I'm also glad that they're treating you nice this time around in your district meeting.

OK, that's it for me this week.  I love you, and I'll talk to you later.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long