Week 45

Hola Everyone!

Well as always, I hope you all had such an amazing week and that you absolutely have an amazing time on the 4th of July!! It hurts quite a bit knowing that I can't play in the Midnight Madness Tournament and the 3-on-3 or volleyball, but hey, you got to do what you got to do!!

Anyways to start the week out, I had quite a funny experience!! So we have to be in bed here by 10:30, that's a mission rule and so I'm usually always in bed by 10:30. So I think it was Tuesday night and it was about 10:25. I saw that my companion's bathroom light was on so I knew he was showering like he always does right at 10:30. Anyways, I shut the front door and locked it and headed to bed. So at about 11:15, my companion opens the screen door that was by my bed which is never locked and he was like, "Why did you lock the front door. I've been throwing fruit at your window for like the last 30 minutes!" Hahaha!! So it happens to be that he was outside washing his clothes at 11 at night which no one does and so he literally had to ask the neighbors for a ladder to climb up to the balcony where the screen door is to get in the house!! It was hilarious!!!

Anyways on the more serious side of things, we had an awesome lesson with a family this week. So we were teaching them that families can be together forever and they really liked that part a lot, so toward the end of the lesson we asked them if they were willing to put their faith in God and be baptized on the 14th of July. The son in the family looked at us and said, "Why can't I be baptized on June 30th?" Good heck, it was awesome. He's just 10 years old and his dad's a member and served a mission, but his mom is not a member yet and he's such an example to his family!! After Sunday School on Sunday his parents went to ask him if he wanted to stay or leave because they were leaving and he said, "I can't leave. I'm a member now!!"

It's such a blessing, as always, to be here in the mission. Yes, it is tough, but it's so worth it!! To end I just want to give a special shoutout to my dad and Carver. FELIZ CUMPLEANOS!!! I sure do love you guys all so dang much and hope that you have such an amazing 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ELDER BLAKE