Hello to everyone, everything is going great. Fantastic news! This week we were able to baptize two people: a mother and her son. We were supposed to baptize the mother on the first Sunday of the transfer, but when we work hard, so does the adversary. A lot happened and we had to postpne the baptism in order to sort it all out so that she was ready. It took us six weeks, but we were able to do it. In the mean time, one of her sons turned 8, so they were both able to be baptized yesterday. It was very exciting! My companion did both baptisms and I will send some pictures soon. That was definitely the highlight of the transfer. Speaking of transfers, they happen this Thursday, and we don't find out until Wednesday night who stays and who goes. I think my companion and I will probably stay the same, but anything could happen.
The weather this week has been crazy! It has been in the high 90s almost every single day. Plus one of the other elders hurt his back, so we let them use the car for a week and we've been on bikes. I don't even want to know what the summer is going to be like.
A few days ago Hilary Clinton was in downtown Laredo. We were planning on going down there to do business and such, so we thought we might be able to catch a glimpse, but as we were walking there we saw a bunch of people with Hilary signs walking away. I guess we just missed her. Things here have been very festive lately. Apparently Laredo dedicates the whole month of February to celebrate Washington's birthday, so there were a bunch of parades and stuff throughout the week. One night we were walking around trying to find people to talk to and nobody was outside or in their house, which was very weird. We then wandered a few blocks over and found everyone was lined up along the street for one of the parades.
I will send more pictures and a video from my camera of us burning a tie for Elder Metcalf's six-month mark! Have a great week.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Avoiding Curses
Hello to everyone - Nothing too crazy happened this week. The one member who was losing family members to crime and murder and was thinking of going up to Houston decided not to go. Instead, his uncles are coming down to Laredo for a little while next month to decide if they are going to go back up there together or not. He's doing a lot better, and he wants us to teach his uncles when they come.
We were walking down the street one night and decided to knock on a few doors. This one family decided to let us in. When we were talking to them, the husband was saying how when he saw us he remembered the part in the Bible that says that Christ sent out his servants two by two to preach the gospel, and He instructed them to teach those that would receive them, and to dust off their feet and curse those that wouldn't receive them. So the man said, "I saw you guys and didn't want to be cursed!" They seem like a really nice family, and the husband is the manager of a band. Hopefully things will keep progressing with them.
Yesterday, on P-Day (preparation day) we had a Zone BBQ at one of the church buildings. It was super fun. We played soccer and ultimate frisbee. We ended up incinerating a pan full of grease because it caught on fire.
There are a bunch of train tracks that make a loop through Laredo and go into Mexico and every few hours trains will go through the city honking the whole way through. It is really annoying because the trains will also just park on the tracks and pretty much block off half of the city until they decide to move. We were over in an area that is surrounded by tracks and this really long train came ad boxed us in for about an hour. We looked into the train car doors, and found it was transporting a whole bunch of brand new automobiles.
Tell everyone I said hi, and it may take a week or two for me to respond to letters and such because we don't have much time for letter writing. I received Susan's card and Kami's package and your Valentine's Day box. Tell every thanks so much, I really appreciate it and look forward to mail every day.
Elder Carreon
We were walking down the street one night and decided to knock on a few doors. This one family decided to let us in. When we were talking to them, the husband was saying how when he saw us he remembered the part in the Bible that says that Christ sent out his servants two by two to preach the gospel, and He instructed them to teach those that would receive them, and to dust off their feet and curse those that wouldn't receive them. So the man said, "I saw you guys and didn't want to be cursed!" They seem like a really nice family, and the husband is the manager of a band. Hopefully things will keep progressing with them.
Yesterday, on P-Day (preparation day) we had a Zone BBQ at one of the church buildings. It was super fun. We played soccer and ultimate frisbee. We ended up incinerating a pan full of grease because it caught on fire.
There are a bunch of train tracks that make a loop through Laredo and go into Mexico and every few hours trains will go through the city honking the whole way through. It is really annoying because the trains will also just park on the tracks and pretty much block off half of the city until they decide to move. We were over in an area that is surrounded by tracks and this really long train came ad boxed us in for about an hour. We looked into the train car doors, and found it was transporting a whole bunch of brand new automobiles.
Tell everyone I said hi, and it may take a week or two for me to respond to letters and such because we don't have much time for letter writing. I received Susan's card and Kami's package and your Valentine's Day box. Tell every thanks so much, I really appreciate it and look forward to mail every day.
Elder Carreon
Saturday, February 16, 2008
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