Mas Exito

Hello One and All,

Well this last week was a pretty good one. Last Pday the Palouse Falls was awesome. I have some really cool pictures I want to send home but as of right now I cannot find my plug in to copy pics to the computer. So those will be forthcoming. So yeah, the falls were really cool. The group of Elders I was with found this "path" (it was actually just a cliff with plumbing running down it we could use to help us climb) that took us right down to the base of the waterfall. It was really pretty and a lot of fun. We showed the pictures to Sister Davidson (a bishop's wife/our mother in this area) and she told us that we shouldn't send them to our mothers. So maybe I'll send the pics to Whit and she can decide if there ok for you mom.

My big news for today is that I successfully sewed a button back onto one of my shirts. I was pretty proud of myself.

Our baptism last saturday went through successfully. Her son baptized her and confirmed her, and it was really neat to see how excited she was to take this step. The service was a little stressful, because we hadn't sufficiently coordinated with the family so the program was not to there liking. I was getting dagger stares from the Daughter in law for most of my talk. But afterwords we ran into them at a restaurant and they invited us over to sit with them and we had a lovely time chatting with them and everyone was happy, so things worked out good in the end.

We had interviews with President and Sister Greer this last week. They went really great and I had an awesome visit with them both. They both thought my spanish story on mothers day was hilarious and that I did the right thing telling it in spanish. I'm now in the older half of spanish elders in the mission so it looks like I might be training pretty soon. I was talking with one of the zl's and he was saying that he's pretty positive that either me or Bao will be training next transfer, and that both of us will be training the following. So we will see what happens with that.

Yesterday we did a brief exchange with the ZL's I went with one to get our baptismal candidate interviewed for thursday while the other went with Bao to our dinner appointment. I was a little bummed out because it was a really cool family from the spanish branch. But the interview went well and Zenaida is ready to get baptized. She's really excited for this. Hopefully we can get her brother and sister soon. They both want it but they want to wait a little. When we met back up with the other elders we learned that at dinner Brother Alvarez had killed a goat. I was pretty bummed that I missed it, but baptisms are important too. I did watch the video that Bao took of it. It was really funny, also extremely bloody. But we won't dwell on that I suppose.

Life is good out here. Thanks for the updates on things mom. I love you all very much. The church is true.

Love,

Elder Richards

p.s. Mom, that picture you sent me actually looks exactly like where I live, except minus the mountains. We're in the middle of a orchards. There's a lot of farm land and sage brush, but it's still pretty in a deserty sort of way.