Dia de Los Muertos

Hola,

First off, I'm glad to hear Sarah and Lori are OK.  I do pray for you, but I'll be putting some more emphasis on it from now on.  Dia de los muertos is pretty good.  We acctually have a town in our mission that's pretty famous for dia de los muertos, called Mixquic.  And we got permission to go, so I'm writing you from there.  It's pretty interesting.  One of the central atractions is the church cemetary, that's full of flowers that people have put there.  There's also a ton of people selling different things, most of which have something to do with a skeleton.  It's all very cool in a kind of creepy way.  I've got lots of pictures to send you this week.  I guess it will only keep getting busier today, but we won't be able to see the really big stuff, since it starts pretty late.  Still, I'm glad I got to see it before I go, since it's a very Mexican holiday.

Other than that, this was a good week.  We found a new family to teach, and they seem pretty interested.  In particular the son is very interested.  At the end of the first lesson, he asked what he would need to do to be a missionary.  We'll see what happens with them, but they seem pretty interested so far.  It's the family Sanchez Piña if you want to pray for them.  Other than them we keep looking, but I know that there are more people waiting for us, so we'll just have to keep working to find them.  Other than that, not too much to report.  Elder Jones and I get along very well, and it helps when we go through some dry spells here.  The house we live in is one of the better ones I've had in the mission, so that's nice.  So far nothing too crazy with animals, other than a dog that tried to bite me the other day.  Nothing happened though, so don't worry about it.

It sounds like you guys had a nice trip down south.  I saw some of the pictures from Sarah and Dad.  It sure is pretty there.  It's pretty here as well, but it's a very different pretty.  Still, I'm sure I'll miss it when I go back home.

That's about it for me.  I love you, and I'll write you next week.

Love,

Elder Samuel Long