Dusty's Email -- 11/3/08

Hey

This last week was one crazy week and it flew by so, so fast. We were in the Temple (at the Open House) almost every day helping out. It was such a great experience. We started Tuesday and worked from 8 to 5 there. First I was in the temple helping, then I was the person that was outside the celestial room that invited the people in. So I got to go in the Celestial Room a lot. It was awesome and the room is so amazing. Later that day I was helping to fill rooms when people arrived. We also went on Wednesday and Friday night. I helped out a lot with the people and talked to a ton of people about the church. We had to go on Saturday because the first Saturday they had 10500 people show up, and this past Saturday we had 12,000 come. It was incredible and this week is the last week so there is suppose to be even more.

So a story right quick. As I said we’ve been helping in the Temple and usually we worked at night because we are only about 30-40 min from the Temple, but we’ve been getting back at around 1040 at night, so we get home and go right to sleep. Yesterday my alarm went off and I rolled out of bed to turn it off. I was so tired and so was my comp but he was still laying in his bed, so I turned off the alarm and went to turn the boiler on, to warm the water up. As I turned the knob I wasn’t paying attention but there was gas coming from the boiler, and since I was tired it never clicked with me...so yep, that’s right, I lit the match and went towards the hole where you light the boiler and .....BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! grand explosion!!!!!!!

I was lucky and only have some second and first degree burns on my face and hand. .....just kidding.....joke.......hahahaha, well, that did happen but I got out of the way just in time and didn’t get burned. It was like in the movies, you know when the person jumps out a window right before an explosion and then it explodes and the fire shoots out the window, yeah that’s what happened here, but luckily I got out of the way and only felt a lot of the heat.

Mom, no I haven’t been robbed yet, and I hope never. A lot of that is because a lot of the Americans like to teach there comp. English in the streets and that’s a no, no. People think that if you speak English you are rich, and also a lot wear their expensive watches and bling. I appreciate the watch you guys sent me but I only wear it to Church and to special events because there are missionaries that want to steal it, let alone all the other people. I don’t speak English in the streets and I don’t wear anything nice.

You guys can write more in your letters if you want, we have permission to go in the mornings and printout the letters and return later and respond. This morning when I was printing off the letters and I was looking at the pictures and wondering why you sent pictures of a random kid. I was like what the heck. But after I got back home and read the letter and now I understand.

Sounds like CJ is still doing well though I haven’t heard from him in a while but tell him I wish him the best of success at State.

Dad, I don’t know what’s going on much in the US with the economy and the politics but I pray for it. It is fulfilling of Joseph Smith’s prophecy.

That’s pretty much it, we didn’t baptize yesterday, the one guy’s wife will not help him to get married, she refuses to help. So it’s a bit difficult. The other didn’t show up yesterday for her service. But yesterday was dia de muertos so no one was at church. Everybody goes to visit their dead relatives.

All is well here. love you all

Elder Howard