Pork and Beans (I eat them every day!)

This week had some good ups and downs.

We´re still lacking in the investigator department, but the ones that we do have are doing well. And this week, Rita (the one investigator that couldn´t get baptized because the drunk guy that she lived with wouldn´t leave) finally got the guy to leave, so now she´s gonna get baptized. Zing! Heh, it´s been a long time coming. I´ve been teaching her ever since the first week in January, so I´m way excited for her. She told us she wants to wait a couple of weeks to mark the baptism, (I think she´s afraid that the guy will come back) but she´s getting baptized!

Also, instead of church on Sunday, we got to watch the temple dedication at the stake center. It was pretty cool to see Pres. Monson dedicating temple, and when they were putting the mortar into the side of the building outside, he was making a bunch of funny comments as people were sticking the mortar in. It was even funnier because the majority of the people there didn´t speak English, so I don´t think everyone quite grasped what he was saying. Even his translator couldn´t keep up sometimes with his comments. Pres. Monson said a couple words in Spanish to some of the people as well.

We also got to watch the celebration at the stake center the night before. It was kinda like an opening ceremony of the Olympics. They had a bunch of people dressed up to represent different countries, with traditional clothes. It looked pretty good, although the people who were dressed up and waving a flag that said “Estados Unidos” weren´t wearing anything that I´ve seen Americans wear-- at least not while I´ve been alive. I can´t describe the clothing, but it looked way 80´s. Kinda like something Will Smith wears on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Well, besides that , not too much else. Sorry for the shortness of this, but I promise that I´ll have more next week.

´till next time!

Excelsior!

-Eldah Heperi