Dusty's Email - 3/23/09

Familia

It’s good to hear from you and to get your photos.

This last week has been such a ride I’m glad that it’s over. It started on Sunday when my watch broke and now I have to buy a new one. (which I did today). Then we went to lady’s house to eat and she had this piano book that I asked if I could borrow, to copy some of the music. She said yes, so being the moron that I am, instead of leaving the book in our house, I took it to the church, to play out of it. While I was doing that the other Elders were bringing their baptism papers to me so that I could take them to Tecamac; about an hour bus ride from Pachuca. So I get all the papers and go to the bus station, get on the bus, and go to Tecamac. When I get off with my companion, we go to where we`re going , meet the zone leaders, and I realize that I don’t have something. Ya, the book. ugh....I left it on the bus. Now it’s lost forever. I’ve tried to find it today at different places to buy it. But I can’t and the lady has called me a few times to see when I’m going to bring it by. So now I am going to pay for the dumb book.

Tuesday, during my district meeting, President Bulloch called me. There has been a problem with the sister missionaries. Not them, but I guess a couple of them have been robbed at knife point, and stuff like that. So the President was asking me some questions, then randomly started asking about my house and area. So I knew that he was thinking about putting the sisters in my area and us in theirs. He told us to change houses, so all week we were working on this contract with the new house, and trying to get the house ready for the sisters. There was a couple of repairs to the house we`ve been doing and all. But it’s basically ready.

So we`ve been looking up the information on the sisters area and about their baptisms, Bishop, etc. It was difficult to work this week, knowing that we were going to have changes to another area. Yesterday we found out about changes, and I was waiting for the zone leaders to affirm that we were going to change. But as I said last week transfers come sometimes when you least expect them. So yes I have transfers again and so does my companion - weird because he has only one cycle in the  mission.

The President is going to put 2 new Elders here. As I called around to talk to the other Elders about transfers(this was before I knew about transfers.) I was informed that Elder Tanner is going to be a Zone Leader. So I freak and called him and congratulate him, because he`s the first of our generation of missionaries to go up. We talked a bit, and that was all. I was so excited for him.

I found out that a lot of Zone Leaders have changes and that 2 are not going to be zone leaders anymore. So I was trying to find out who else was going up, and then the Zone Leaders told me that I`m going up with Elder Tanner to be a Zone Leader. haha. I was shocked. So I`ll let you know where I end up in the next week. So we`re trying to finish getting all the stuff prepared to leave tomorrow.

So that was my week. Bummed out that the Devils lost. But it’s ok. I`m excited to work as a Zone Leader and honored that out of all the Elders to bring up in the mission, so many that have more experience than Elder Tanner and I, that President has chosen us to be Zone Leaders.

Can you put some more  money in my account? I only have like 200 pesos; like $20 bucks. I took out money for a watch and for this dumb book I`m going to pay this lady for.

Thanks for your letters. Dad, I studied the talk by Elder Bednar about Prayer, and I have changed things and I feel like I`m, praying better.

Thanks for the pictures. Mom- if you can send some more socks that would be appreciated, and food. Pictures, maybe a cool tie. Or a USB memory stick, I was thinking that might be the easiest way to hold my pictures.

Love,

Elder Howard