Well first off, unfortunately the Romeros' baptism did not go through. The druggy/prego aunt showed up in need of attention. But it's ok, we will keep working with them and move things along. It's been tough ever since Inez started working night shift; she sleeps all the time now. But during interviews we got permission from President Greer to teach her whenever necessary. Even if it means we have to go over at midnight before she starts working! So yeah, it'll go down, we just dont know when yet.
This week we've been tracting in our down time. We found an awesome guy, Jorge. He's 49 and a single dad (his wife up and left like a cholla) but he is responsible and takes care of his 4 kids and 2 grandkids. He invited us in right away and we spent the half hour visit just getting to know him a bit better and introduce some of the doctrine. He told us how he doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, and tries to take care of himself. We joked around afterwords because we half expected him to go on to say, "and I try to eat every herb in it's season, you know what I mean? And meat sparingly..." He's pretty golden, his concern he voiced to us was that he believes everything that people tell him about God, but they can't all be right, so he wants to know which ones are. We're pretty excited to see this guy progress.
My day of birth was fine I suppose. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just like any other day. I got a teddy bear from one of my converts, I named him Winston. The real party was on Saturday. We had a joint party between me and Eloisa, it was a ton of fun, and we had a bunch of people that we work with there. Before the night was over Jon (the big guy with tattoos) even offered me a job when I get off the mission. He is in the process of starting up his own photography company, I helped him come up with the slogan on his business cards and we got to talking about photography and movies and whatnot, and he said if ever I'm around Boardman he'll have work for me to do. So that was pretty cool, we'll see if anything comes of that in the future.
Another cool thing to happen on Saturday was that a spanish radio station was throwing a big cinco de mayo party at the marina here in Boardman. Juan Saldanas (an awesome member from Kennewick) is one of their head dj's, so he was there MC'ing. We went and said hello, and got to talk with him for a little while which was way cool. All the Hispanics I knew that were there were way impressed that I knew a celebrity. We even got some autographs for this kid we work with, he was pretty psyched. It was a lot of fun.
So yeah, the mission continues moving forward. I can't believe Jeffrey is home, that's so crazy. Mom, if you could send the Clutter's address, I'd like to shoot him a letter. Hope everyone has a good week; I'll talk to yall on Sunday.
Love,
Elder Richards
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