So first off, thank you all so much for being just absolutely awesome!! If there is one thing I have learned on my mission, it´s that I have just the best family that I could ever have! There are so many people here with so many problems, that don´t treat each other well, etc. etc, that it just makes me realize what a grand blessing I have with my loving family!! :) :)
Also, how awesome is that that Devin and Jody had their baby! Little Trey! How cute :) I honestly totally forgot about the whole baby situation with them until I saw the emails you guys sent haha....but I´m super excited to see him in 18 months and however many days/weeks (my little preacher/permission to preach card that they give you at the MTC says that I´m gonna finish my mission on the 23 of may 2016, and one time we counted out the six week periods until then, and the day of the transfer actually does fall on that day, but idk for sure if we can like bank on that 100%....but whatever, it doesn´t matter haha...
And dad, that is kinda sad that you can´t golf for 5 months, but just to make you feel better, I can´t golf until the end of may 2016!!! :) And I will definitely thank Heavenly Father for the deal up paris canyon. That really is a blessing. And just a btw, I had a dream just last night that me, you, and Hoge were out on the course, golfing....really strange, espécially since you just mentioned it, but yeah, it happened :)
And Hannah, that play looks like a ton of fun! You HAVE to tell frankie and colton, especially, that they´re awesome and that I wish I could have been in the play with them just to laugh it up like we did before....and tell frankie that I´m gonna come home and convert him! Haha...
And we actually had some kind of a hurricane pass through close to us, more along the coast, the last week or so, so we have had actually pretty perfect weather! Cloudy, kinda rainy, and windy, to the point that everybody here is complaining about the cold, and I´m just soaking it up! :)
And mom, connie is great, isn´t she!? And good luck with your ankle and just be careful! And no, I´m never gonna have a car, I can promise you like 100%...the thought, here in Tepic of having a car, is actually pretty.....idk the word.....laughable, nearly impossible, impractacle (I´m seriously forgetting english, so don´t judge me! :))
And my spanish is doing a lot better, and I basically understand people now! And I actually had one less active member tell me, "did you speak spanish before your mission?" "No, just a couple classes in high school" "Really? Wow, cuz you speak it perfectly." That made me feel really good, as you can imagine!
And as far as investigators, idk if I have talked about the family Sarmiento but they are really cool and interested, but they just need to freaking go to church! The dad doesn´t listen to us, but the mom and her three daughters do, and the dad actually makes things hard, cuz when he´s home, the family never leaves, out of respect to him or something like that....so he was home this sunday, so that was the reason why they didn´t go...and we even passed by to walk with them to church....sad day :( but crispina came again!!! And she really loved the primary program that we had! It made me think of you, mom, the primary president having to have everything ready and helping the kids with their scriptures and everything! It was really cute :) Oh, and I have a pic of me with a parrot, and I´ll see if I can get it to work! Love you tons, OH, AND HAPPY BDAY DAD!!! I told myself i wasn´t gonna forget and I still almost did! And happy anniversary, too, mom and dad!
Elder Budge