Week 63

Halfway through the transfer! Well, it's been a crazy week. Remember
the CDA cares thing with all the people and he teeth and over 12 hours
of volunteering? Well, that's a lot of people in one building. And lo
and behold, Elder Minkler got sick. Really sick. Like a major sinus
infection, cough, cold type thing. He woke up just dead on Tuesday,
and since then we've gone out to work only like 4 times, not for any
longer than 3 hours at a time. Being sick in a bike area sucks. It was
a major bummer, but we actually taught 5 lessons, and picked up a cool
new investigator. So God definitely blessed us and made up for our
weaknesses this week. Not that it's his fault only, though. I was
fairly sick with some mucous and a bad cough and a sore throat from
Wednesday to Saturday. I literally just sat in my study chair hating
my life. I read through the whole book of Mosiah in Spanish. It was
literally bummer town for a week. We also decided our dream Pokemon
teams and decided what the best all around Zelda game is. Which, in
case you wanted to know, is Wind Waker. And since you probably don't
care about my dream Pokemon team, I'll spare you the details. He got
me sold on Lucario. We talked about Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
We talked about Spiderman, X-Men, Batman, the Avengers, and Justice
League. We talked about Star Wars. With all that time, we got pretty
nerdy. I also watched a Special Witnesses of Christ, The Testaments,
Together Forever, and On The Lord's Errand in Spanish. Looooooong
week. Almost as depressing as listening to the Smiths on a rainy day.

But here are some good things. We picked up a new investigator from
Guatamala. He's 21 and came here like 7 months ago. He doesn't speak
any English. It's like a completely different kind of Spanish. I've
got to be on my game. I wouldn't say that Spanish here in the US is
Spanglish, but it's like United States Spanish. Mauricio, this
investigator, speaks real Spanish. It's pretty interesting to think
about it. I can't really explain it.

 There is a family in the branch called the Castañedas. They took us
out to dinner at a Chinese place. I sat next to their 6 year old girl,
and she was so cute! I sat next to her and we were talking. She was
all "estás enfermo?" And so I said "sí, Elder Minkler me hizo
enfermo!" "Yo me enfermé la semana pasada, pero se me quitó bien
rápido!" "Qué tenías?" "Muchos mocos!" "No me gustan los mocos!" And
then in the cutest voice ever, "A mi tampoco!" So that is when I
decided that I'm going to have little white Mexican kids. Period.
They're the cutest kids in existence.

So that's my week. A new Guatamalan guy that's sick, and me
daydreaming about having Mexican kids. But it was good! I'm not too
sick anymore. But this week we have Mother's Day! I'm so excited to
talk to you guys. And also a temple trip Thursday! We're going with
brother Sigui, from Nicaragua. Aka Hermano "if you don't try the
Keeenders, I'll kill you!" But I'll explain that later.

Love you guys! Have a great week. Can't wait for Mother's Day!

Elder Foster