Two Decades Gone???? (8/17/10)

pyk cake is the cake that Pablo and Katharine made for the Dìa del Niño... which happened to be the day after my birthday. We'll pretend it was a birthday cake.

daddy's boy is me in a bib that says "I'm of my dad" aka Daddy's Boy. Some of these dichos just don't translate over...

analia m is the lunch we had with Analìa Martinez and her fam - Elder Wagner, Elder Thorderson, Analìa, Juan Antonio, Analìa's mom, Daniela. It was fun.

analia m cake is the cake they made for us. I love those rocket candles. Maybe I could make a rocket out of like 50 of those - but they don't actually produce thrust.

analia a is another Analìa Arambillet creation.

Well... two decades down and like only 3 to go, the way I've been eating cake lately. :D Here are some pictures.


Well we had a good week this week, but the zone struggled. We had like 15 people lose their baptismal dates for this month, which means our achievable goal of 20 baptisms this month dropped to 4. We keep chugging along though!

I got the packages - thanks! I did get a little confused though - I got those in only 11 days. Was there another package on the way from a while ago that had boots and stuff? Still haven't gotten that one. I am definitely popular with my girl scout cookies though. :D Thanks a ton for everything, even the random blue socks. I love you guys so much!

Ummm Vilma is on track to get baptized saturday. She's strong and we had a FHE with her yesterday with Analìa M. and Daniela. She's definitely the strongest convert I have ever seen, we are super excited for her. She's super excited too. We talked a lot about how she passed up the opportunity to get baptized when she was like 19 and now it is her time, her chance. Pretty intense. And the fact that we found her after she asked us to bless her store... haha cool stuff.

Let's see... I changed travel plans a little bit. We'll go to Florida first and stay there, then Trinidad on Thursday. Easy little switch, but it will be better for travel. Thus we have two nights in FL, one in Punta del Este, and then the remainder in Deo.

Well there ya go. Pictures speak a thousand words... total word count of this email: 5,424. :D

Love you!