07-06-09

Hola Querida Familia Mia!
Feliz 4 de Julio!
No one here did anything- I saw some fireworks, but I think they were in Mexicali (Mexico). We got up at 4:00AM this morning to go to the sand dunes before the sun came up. It was pretty fun. We came back home & went back to sleep. When I went to bed, it was 101* (at 10:30PM last night) when I woke up at 4:00AM it was 88*, so we has to go that early, because the sand dunes heats up more than that. Well, Herlinda & Lazaro forgot about church, even though we went before church started to remind them- so her date got pushed back to the 19th. And Rosa Maria- her mom told her that she'd already been baptized, so she couldn't come to church with us. She lost her date. :( We just dropped everyone in our teaching pool because they weren't progressing and last night we found out that there are big wigs from the church that might be staying with us to supervise the work and give us special training. :Z
Every time we go to Herlinda's I have to convince her that I speak Spanish. ¿Peeky panish?, She always asks- In like the middle of the lesson that we've been teaching IN SPANISH. I have a hard time not completely dehydrating in there, 1. I sweat my guts out because they won't turn on the A/C or a fan because it's just not warm enough for them, and 2. They say the most random things, like peeky panish, or we had to explain "don't kill & stealing from the 10 commandments. She really wants to steal candy at the store, & it's okay to kill un pollito. They are this old couple 80's going insane- it's fun! This transfer went by so fast. Me & Hna Alcantara are always having a blast.
Hna Baker