November 21, 2011 - Email to Family

 Hey my beloved family.

This last week went rather fast!  I cannot believe that it´s Thanksgiving again!  That was a really fast year that just took place!  I cannot believe it, literally the time is flying by so fast.  We had a really good week and we found 3 new people to teach!  That is pretty good right?

Well about that whole staph infection deal.  To start it off it´s like a boil under the skin and they hurt really bad.  I punctured it and drained it out for like 4 days straight and got my hands on some antibiotics.  That was really hard to do, and I still have one on my neck.  So that leads me to a question.  Can you send me an emergency package of antibiotics??  With the package, if you love me send a CD of Mannheim Steamroller and Josh Grobans Christmas CD.  Haha it´s Christmas and I don´t have a lot of music.  It´s the only thing we can do as missionaries is music!  We have a Mannheim Steamroller CD so you can burn that if you want!  Thanks mother, sorry I feel like I am always asking for stuff!!!  I hate it but the antibiotics I need to fight it all off! 

Okay so this week was really fun.  We had Zone Conference, which was sooo much fun.  I like our Zone and all the missionaries in it.  The lesson Pres Clegg gave was amazing and Sister Clegg´s was amazing.  They are truly inspired people called by God to lead us.  They are awesome and they spoil the missionaries!  We found 3 new people to teach this week.  The first one is named Pepi.  She is super old and has been meeting with the missionaries for 14 years.  She is a nice lady and hasn´t seen the missionaries for like a year.  She asks us to come over and to visit her because she lives alone and likes the company.  She fell once and broke her hip and 3 days later her neighbor found her and saved her.  She is a beast, she laid there for 3 days with out food and couldn´t moved at all.  She is like 70 something years old.  The second is Moises, he is a younger guy that is 32 years old from Spain.  He is a good guy and believes everything we have told him, but I am pretty sure he is a drug addict.  I am positive I saw Marijuana buds all over his table, so we will see he has only been taught once.  The other is a lady from Bolivia named Sonia.  We contacted her a long time ago and finally passed by and got a lesson with her.  So we are going to try super hard with her.  I think we are going to see really good progress with her.  She just needs to read the Book of Mormon I think and really pray with her heart.  We have only taught her once too because she is new.  I dropped Juan yesterday morning because he wouldn´t come to church; so I am done and fed up with him.  We have tried so hard with him and prayed a lot but he just won't progress or grow up.  Claudia, she is done, Henry and Paloma, they are done too, oh and I talked to Betty and she said there is too many serious bad things happening in her life right now and she can´t listen to us.  I tried my hardest to bear my testimony over the phone to her.  She won't even meet with us to give her Beach Boy Cd's back.  haha she gave us her Cd's to listen to but of course we didn´t listen to them.  She wanted us to translate two songs for her so she could understand what they are singing about.  Haha so we just looked it up on the Internet and printed them out.  Well Adrian the little 10 year old is awesome.  We taught him yesterday after church and that was a lot of fun. 

This week we are having a combined district meeting, well our whole zone this Thursday and having Thanksgiving.  We were going to have another Thanksgiving with the guy that we can send packages through but he is going to Portugal this week.  So oh well.  I think another American is inviting us over still.  I don´t really care, it doesn´t feel like the Holidays.  Well I think I answered all of your questions!  I love you all so much!  Thanks for all you do for me and you are amazing!  Have a good Thanksgiving! 

CODY