Hey Family...well sorry this emails is going to be a little lame because I don’t really have much to fill you in on... yesterday we had five Cakes... that was awesome... we were running around all day and never have time to rest from all the cake... I put on a bunch of weight but definitely worth it.... as for my area and now I am liking it, its the best area in the world I think, for sure one of my favorites... well I have only had three but this one is wicked awesome... it is so unbelievably big... the area I was in my first change was seriously smaller than Rhodes ranch.... there was nobody but I still loved it, this area goes on forever... lots of fields and also some ghetto parts and rich parts.. It has it all man. The members are few but the ones we have are super studs... My comp is doing pretty good, I like training and all but it is really stressful, he asks a lot of questions and doesn’t believe me when I tell him things, I cant blame him though, the first day we got here I took him to the bishops house and told him it was an investigator, of coarse the bishop played along, but it was hilarious, bishop asked every question in the world and then said him wife was a bandista, they sacrifice chickens here in the streets... then he brought out a Buddha and started kneeling before it... I never laughed so hard in my life, he kept asking why I was laughing so hard... I just said... es loco... or he is crazy, then at the end of the night we finally told him and he laughed and took it like a man. The poor kid doesn’t understand a thing, I remember was that was like, the days seem to go by a little longer, but he really speaks better than me when I came out and is learning sure fast, the lid is also a clean freak, and organize freak, haha don’t worry mom I am doing my best to break him... jk. Its just tough when you live in a 4 elder house, and our house is absolutely terrible, the landlords came over the other day and chewed us out for other things that past elders did, the sink is broke, and the drawers to everything are gone (were used as fire wood to keep warm apparently), the toilet is broke, we just recently fixed the hot water, the cockroach population has now taken over the microwave and fridge... I do what I can to keep the house clean but there is only so much I can do, I adapted the camping slogan, leave it better than you found it, so I try to make sure its at least a little cleaner.
But this week went well including the lady Andrea who I baptized found a boyfriend at general conf... really interesting, then her daughter told me that she is going to get baptized the 1st of may.... boom baby... then Sandra got confirmed... Other than tat a rather rough week but I am sure that things are going to pick up.
Love you all
Elder Blanco
