Don't have a lot of time so this will be pretty short sweet and to the point.
License crack down hasn't been too bad, there were 74 at church so it is pretty normal.
Yes I got the package. I don't think you sent enough Hershey's kisses (I am kidding, that was a lot)
Matt is crazy, he shaved his legs, unbelievable! (Matt shaved his legs for his role as Pugsley in the musical The Addams Family.)
The tortillas are really good, just make sure you roll them out thin enough or they will be more like flatbread.
Nathan Call is a deacon? That is crazy.
Alright Highlights time, this week was a good one:
Monday:
We went shopping and we decided to go to Burlington in McAllen and do a little bit of shopping. Burlington is my new best friend, I got a nice pair of shoes that were on clearance $20.
We went to HEB to shop for groceries because I had never been there. It is pretty interesting, we ended up buying a whole bunch of different kinds of chocolate cereal because as Eloy says "the flesh is weak"
We visited Eloy later that evening and we went and explored his monte (wilderness) with him to go get his horses, it was pretty cool.
After that he took us out to get tacos because we hadn't eaten so that was nice.
Tuesday:
We met Julian (Eloy's brother, he has like 5 brothers and a sister) he is a lot like one of Eloy's other brothers Valdo, Valdo used to be a professional singer in a Mexican band. Valdo is just drunk all of the time and he shares some weird stories. So Julian was a lot like that, he was drunk.
We had dinner with the Hernandez family and it was like a chicken and rice thing, it was really good.
The highlight of my life however happened Tuesday night. We were teaching these 5 kids and it is a weird situation because their mom was baptized but then decided to go to a different church because she was confused, so she started going to another church and that is the church she raised her kids in. However she always lets us come in and have lessons with her kids and sometimes she joins us and participates, however she won't let her kids read the Book of Mormon and she doesn't let them come to our church. Also their dad who was in prison and then was out of their lives recently decided to come back for a while downright hates us and I have only seen him once but suffice it to say he doesn't like us at all. So Tuesday night we were teaching the 5 kids, 2 girls who are 15 and then another girl who is 12 another who is like 9 and a boy who is 12. They were the only ones home and their parents were gone selling chips and stuff. So we taught them a really good plan of salvation lesson. The problem is that the 2 15 year olds just talk and talk and talk. So it was like 9:10 and we were trying to decide who would say the closing prayer before we left and while we were deciding we saw the parents pull up in their car and we were actually freaking out. By some miracle (yes it was a miracle) the parents decided to pull around to the back side of the house to park and one of the 15 year olds said a 2 sentence prayer and we snuck out the front door without the parents knowing we were there. We literally snuck out of the house through the front door because the parents went around back. The Lord works in crazy ways.(I asked Jaden how they got in to teach the kids and he said he and his companion were walking by and their door was open and the kid's invited them in to teach them.)
Wednesday:
We knocked some apartments for most of the day and that was about it. We had dinner with the Rivera's, it was rice and meat, which is pretty usual down here, it was really good. We did visits Wednesday night So I went with Brother Hernandez and we visited some people and talked about how everything was going.
Thursday:
We had interviews with President Torres, he said my Spanish is really good so that was nice. After that we explored a super small settlement called Cuevitas at the edge of our area because apparently some members lived there. It was like maybe 10 houses, not very huge, we say some goats and a donkey. We knocked in Havana later on in day and we met some guy who was Pentecostal and had studied the Bible for like 30 years and he asked us some questions about the Holy Ghost, long story short we pointed out a scripture in the Bible and he basically ignored it but it basically proved him to be incorrect in his theories about the Holy Ghost, however he just ignored it.
Friday:
We had the usual coordination with Brother Guerrero and lunch. We went and finished knocking the apartments we knocked on Wednesday, we met a Messianic Jew, someone who believes that Jesus Christ was the son of God and so they are waiting for the second coming just like we are but they still believe in all of the traditions and rules from the Old Testament. Doesn't really make sense but okay. We went to PDP and we hadn't eaten all day so we stopped and got an elote (that Mexican street corn) After that we had a handoff lesson with some sister missionaries who were passing off an investigator to us, it was kind of weird because there were 2 boys that were about 6 and 7 and they just wouldn't be quiet, they just ran around and were pointing flashlights in our eyes, I just ignored them.
Saturday:
We had a service project at 9:00 am to help brother Lopez again clear down mesquite trees and I found out that every Mexican knows how to use a machete. They are super cool and I will definitely own a machete when I am older, they are super sick. We also had lunch there and ate a cow head, yes a literal cow head, picture included. You just grab a tortilla and rip off some meat and eat it, it was actually really good. I also tried lingua, cow tongue, that was super delicious too. After the service project we went to the park to see the primary kids because they were having an Easter egg hunt party thing so we stopped by and said hi. After that we went to PDP again and we went back to the house we snuck out of on Tuesday. The Mom was there this times and she let us come in and have a lesson with them. Twice it was almost revealed that we snuck out Tuesday night and that we were over there but somehow she didn't find out, so we are still nice. After the lesson we had another service project to help some other missionaries paint another members house so we did that for the rest of the night.
Sunday:
We had 74 people at church, the Buentello's spoke in Sacrament meeting and gave really good talks about testimonies. 3rd hour our ward high counselor Bishop Vargas (he used to be bishop in another ward) gave a really good lesson about keeping the Sabbath day holy. After church we visited some less actives and then we were in the area of the Rivera's so we went by them and they asked us if we had eaten. We hadn't so they fed us some baby back ribs that they had had earlier, they were super good. We talked with them for a little bit and then it was time for us to head home.
That was our week. Rumor is that I might be leaving next Tuesday April 3rd so we will see what happens. You will all find out next Monday. Also we will be going to the church to watch General Conference.
Elote!
Love you guys!
Elder Goodbaudy
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