4 Junio 2012
Dear Family,
   How´s it going?  Congrats to Doug and Kevin for everything you´ve accomplished in school! 
Dad  we are doing a program like that with journals.  The branch pres. chooses five families to work with the missionaries and their goal is to baptize two families this year.  (each family)  They write down the contacts they make, the lessons they've participated in, whatever they want.  There is a space for the picture of the family that they helped to baptize. 
  Mom thanks for the email.  It sounds like you all are busy up there.  Wow, I think it is hotter in Gillette that it is here.  It just rained so the sky is dark and it´s kind of cool.  
    Doug, good luck with the interview tomorrow.  I hope you get the job.
    Kyle, good luck with your phone interview.  I hope you get what you want!
    Kevin, Sounds like life is busy
    Dani, thanks for being a good writer.  Would you mind sending me some pictures of the munchkins?  I have the picture you sent through the mail on the wall in front of my desk. 
     Pablito, I sent you a letter this morning.  It has a stamp on it.  and I sent it to Kevin´s house because I don´t have your address. 
    Cheryl,  I would also like to see a picture of you all.  Maybe you have taken a family picture recently.  When I talk to five year-olds I think about Tanner and Nani, and I want to see how big they are. 

    So... highlights from the week, FRENCH TOAST!!!  We have a little electric stove with two burners that our dueña let us borrow.  and we also borrowed a pan.  There was a bottle of olive oil that the elders left in the house, so we used that.  yum!  With pineapple jam. 
     PLANTING WITH RAFAEL!  We went up to their house three times this week to help them plant peppers and tomatoes.  Rafael made the holes earlier.  Hna Silva and I put the pepper plants in the holes and they covered them up.  They had planted all the peppers really close together to get them to grow and then we pulled them up like weeds and put them in the holes.  I think they do it that way because there aren´t as many weeds or something?  I really enjoyed being outside and working.  It was good for my spirit.  My body didn´t like it very much.  We´ve been pretty tired this week.  But it was really fun, and Rafael and ]Magdalena were really grateful.  Her daughter and son in law were there and they´ve received missionaries before.  They are the most adorable family ever!  I want to teach them so badly but they don´t live in our area.  Josue, the son in law, nuero, como yo digo... is super nice.  He invited another family that was there helping us to go to church.  He also said the closing prayer in the lesson.  SWEET!  Daisy, the daughter is really funny.  And their two kids are adorable.  I´m hoping they move to our area.  :) 
     I wrote about this in the letter to president Monestel, but Enrique is AWESOME!! His family has changed so much.  Eduardo behaves way better.  Tami doesn´t laugh during the prayers.  They pray EVERY NIGHT as a family.  When he was coming home from work on the bus he was thinking about what he had read in the Book of Mormon at work.  He knows it´s true.  He says that he feels peace when he reads the Book of Mormon.  When he got fired he came home and felt bad, so he started reading his book of mormon and he started to feel better.  Wow.  Enrique is the person that we found in the field and by our house, drunk.  He´s the one that asked us to read him a verse from the book of Mormon and Hna Silva opened up both times to a chapter about baptism.  3 nephi 11 and 3 nephi 27.  
   It´s incredibly beautiful now because it´s raining and everything is turning green. The mountains are gorgeous. 
Rafael bore his testimony in his house with us in front of Josue.  He also bore his testimony this Sunday.  Wow.  He´s awesome.
   I´m praying for you all.  I know you are praying for me.  I miss you all a lot. I listen to the recordings you sent me at Christmas time. I listened to Dad´s story this morning.  I listen to you all.  I love it when Scotty says Nicaragua.  Thanks for being such a loving family and raising me in the gospel.  It´s a debt that I can´t repay.  Love love love,
love, MB