Dusty's Email -- 05/11/2009

We had a great  call with Elder Howard on Mother’s Day. He is doing really well! He is still in Tecamac serving as a Zone Leader. The Mexican government has lifted the bans they put in place to control the spread of the Swine Flu so they can finally go out and meet people, go to church, and see the other missionaries in their zone.

Dusty impressed us all with the things that he has tried to eat since being in Mexico. Not only has he made peace with onions, he also confused that he has tried fried crickets! He said that he’s only there for two years and that he needed to atleast try it. I asked him if it tasted like chicken. He said “no, it tasted like a cricket”. He then talked about some of things that he has since in the markets for sale. It really made all very thankful to be here.

One of Dusty’s friends, Mike, was able to be part of the call. I know that meant a lot to Dusty to be able to talk with Mike. Mike, who has family in Mexico, was surprised by the things that Dusty has tried. It was fun to hear them talk about the culture there.

 Anyways, Elder Howard is doing great. Both he and his companion came through the flu “pandemic” without any illness (with the exception of a slight touch of food poisoning).

 Thank you all for your love and support of Dusty. It is a great pleasure to us to hear how he is growing as he learns to the love and serve the good people of Mexico. These really are experiences that will shape his life.

 John

  

Hey
 
It was really good to hear from you guys yesterday.

 Sounds like things are going well, and I’m glad to hear about some of your experiences and to share some of mine.

Well, as you all thought, and us too. Elder Pickup does have transfers. which is a bummer, but he has served his time here in Tecamac, and it time to go to another area. Many people are saying in that I’m going to get another American companion, but we´ll see if that happens. It would be nice, but I don’t expect it. President Bulloch rarely does it, but there are 4 zone leaders with changes and 3 of the 4 are Americans. The other one is from Argentina and has already been in this zone, so I will let you know next week.

Not much more to say. You asked about what to send in the next package. More pictures, some more church socks, like blue and brown. Can you put a little more money in my account?  We might go to the pyramids here soon, and there are some souvenirs I´d like to get ya´all.   But back to the package -  Laffy Taffy, Riesen, not sure what else. I’m going to get a new backpack from the mission, so everything is good there.

 That’s about it for me, we need to  finish getting some stuff packed up for Elder Pickup and say bye to some of the people he taught. So I´ll go now. 

But again Mom, Happy Mother’s day. Dad, I hope that your training goes well and that you get back safely. Cj, just do your thing and I hope that  Alenna learns more words besides no!!!!

Love
Elder Howard