Disappointment

 Hi Everyone!  
    
Wow, Mom & Dad - it sounds like you had a pretty crazy week!  Sedona, Girls Camp, St. Johns, and a rodeo!  That sounds super fun though.  I would die to go to a rodeo and eat Mexican food - it sounds amazing!  I'm glad you enjoyed it.  Why didn't Alex go?  By the way - that photo that you sent me of him and Fonze in the ocean, he look EXACTLY like me.  When I carry around pics of the family without me in them, everyone thinks that I am him in the photo.  If I showed them the ocean photo, there is NO way I could convince them that it's not me in it.
    
Thanks for looking for boots!  To tell you the truth - yes, the ones you found and sent a picture of don't really fit the missionary standards - sorry - they need to be a little more classy...but you should check Pomeroys!  I saw some cool ones when I went, and I would trust them that they would fit with the missionary standards as well.
    
Mom, it was really cool to hear about your class reunion!  I am glad that you decided to go!  How many people were in your graduating class?
    
So this week has been all right, but disappointing.  The family that we were counting on for this transfer kind of fell.  Luchi and Duarte had a date to get married and everything - but the dad decided that he wanted to get out of debt first before he will get married.  Yes, it is a good intention, but it should be a few months before he can raise the money - and by then,  from my experience as a missionary, they will have lost all of the excitement and desire to get baptized.  They have to get baptized while they are still fresh, or else it doesn't happen.  Not to mention that they are procrastinating the day of their repentance.  He has to take a step back and look about the bigger sin he is committing here, but he is set on it, just doesn't really understand.  Hopefully they will stay strong coming to church and things.  I am praying for them...but it isn't looking too good.
    
Besides them, all is going pretty smoothly.  We are still working hard and all of that good stuff.  It rained super hard one day, but the storm that they talked about didn't seem to come - which was nice.  Well, I gotta go, but take care everyone!

Love, Elder McBride