Just Another Week

Dear Family,
    
Wow, it sounds like you had a crazy week!  Very eventful, and kind of the complete opposite of my last week.  I mean it was good and we worked super hard - but there were no baptisms and we are mainly just working on getting new investigators, so I don't really have anyone to talk about right now.  We were teaching a couple.  The uncle of Marin (the American member), but it turns out that he has been cheating on his future wife and so they might separate now.  Also, we passed by last night and they were drunk, so it looks like we are gonna have to start searching for another family or two.  That was kind of a bummer, but oh well . . . I figure we will give them another chance and see if they can change.
    
Pretty much the only really exciting thing that happened this week that I could think of when I was pondering on what to write is that I made tortillas!  I called my old companion Elder Vargas and asked him for the recipe he used to use and I decided to try it myself.  It actually ended up being surprisingly easy and I think I will keep making them often to try and perfect them.  This time they turned out a little more like gordita bread from Taco Bell than tortillas - but it is a work in progress!  I have just been having a desire to cook lately, which is kind of cool I guess.  I always end up changing the recipes to how I like them though, so I guess most of the time I'm not cooking legit Dominican food.  Don't worry though - I'll show you the legit Dominican stuff when I get home - pretty much just rice and beans!
    
I wrote my letter for Jeff Despain already, but the mission changed the mail policy so we only get mail 2 times a transfer, and we can only send it out twice as well.
    
So I read about the opening of the temple in the Gila Valley in the Liahona (June issue).  Don't ask me how I got that already, because we still don't have the conference magazine yet.  I am glad you guys got to see the dedication. It is also cool that the kids got to visit the Gilbert site too.  We only get to go to the temple every three transfers, which works out to about every 5 months.  A looooooooooong time.  I got used to going every week at home and also in the MTC and now we barely ever get to go!  You guys better be able to take advantage of that as much as possible!
    
Well, like I said, it was a pretty uneventful week.  So sorry, but that's how it is.  I hope that finals and the end of school all goes well!

Love, Elder McBride