E-mail 12-14-09

Hey family
What's up? How are you guys doing?
My week it has been OK, kinda frustrating. Our baptism fell threw again. The lady just said she is to busy so call her next week please, which sucked! We will just have to see what happens with her. Then we tried to get a family we are teaching to get baptized and they were "like we don't know." The thing is, the mom wants to get baptized but the husband doesn't because his dad is a leader in the Catholic church and is hard core Catholic. I think he is scared of his dad so he is scared to get baptized. Yesterday he didn't come to church and we went to visit there family after and it was super awkward. We felt like the dad was way bugged with us cuz his wife and kids came to church but he sat at home alone. We don't know what to do about that family now. so its just been a frustrating week.

I just got yelled at by a bus driver cuz the buses here have a bell and you push it to get them to stop. So I pushed it and he didn't stop so I pushed it again and he still didn't stop. So I said, "bahan por favor." which means stop please. So he did, then he said "that's what the bell is for" i said "I rang it twice." He said "no you didn't" in a jerk way. I just got off cuz I'm a good missionary and don't want people to think bad about the church. But I really just wanted to punch him in the head cuz of his attitude. So this week has just been really crappy, I feel a little on edge haha! Going to the temple tomorrow will help.

The day of the virgin of Guadalupe was this week too. It is nuts, everyone throws party's and gets drunk and shoots fire works. They all build shrines in front of there houses to the virgin of Guadalupe. It's just huge day of getting drunk and partying in honer of her hahahaha. It's really bad. I feel bad for people, it's kinda sad, they have TV shows about her where people act like she gave them a miracle and all kinds of stuff. Freaking apostasy!!!

I'm so excited for Bridger, that will be so good. Tell him to put his head down and work his hardest and he will be great! 3 months in Salt Lake City and he doesn't have to go to the MTC, that is so cool. Tell him to get Preach My Gospel and read chapter 3. It's all the lessons we teach and then tell him once he reads them to practice with Ross. One thing I did is as you read the lesson write down what you want the people to learn from it then make an outline of what to teach. Teach those points with questions to help him know they understood like after teaching about prophets ask a question like, "So do you think it would benefit you to have a prophet on the earth today?" or "How do you think a prophet would be able to help us in our day?" Make an outline like that with questions and answers of the things he wants the people to learn and he won't need the MTC cuz that's what they teach you there. Tell him how proud I am of him and that I know he will do great!

That's about it this week. I love you all so much and hope everything is going good. Have a good week!
I love you all!
Love Elder Fackler