more showers from a bucket :(

Dec. 1, 2008
Well it sounds like you guys had a fun trip! I loved thanksgivings when the whole family did stuff together, well yeah my thanksgiving was kinda a bummer, it was just another day for us here I didn’t even remember it till Friday! so no fun but it’s ok, so other than that this week we woke up Tuesday morning to find that we were out of Gas to heat our water for showers so...... you guessed it.... more showers from a bucket, I really don’t like showering out of a bucket but it’s warm and gets the job done, but the water here is soo dirty and nasty that when I get out of the shower my whole body itches soo bad! it sucks but it just depends on the area you’re in, well this week we found out that the girl that we were going to baptize... her mom said NO, so tomorrow we are going to go talk to her to find out why she doesn’t want her to be baptized so who knows how that will end up but we found some new investigators so hopefully someone will want to learn. so yeah, today we went to this place called Tepito, it’s this HUGE place where you can buy ANYTHING you could want for really cheap so we bought some stuff and mostly just walked around it was awesome. So yeah tonight we have family home evening with the ward so I have to hurry up cause it starts in like 15 min but I’ll get back on after and write more or reply if you write me back, but I love you guys and ill talk to you later

Well FHE was good learned some good stuff. so tomorrow we have divisions so I get to go to Chalco with one of the zone leaders for a full day it’s like 20 min away and it’s a pretty big city lots of people to talk to so it will be fun to have a little change in things, so there was special changes last week and the only other American in our district got transferred so now it’s only ME and 5 mexicans but it’s not bad. well hmmm your questions... what I dislike about my mission...hmmm that’s a tough question not really anything besides the people who don’t want anything to do with us and try to argue with us and stuff but the thing I love about my mission is meeting a bunch of new people every day and teaching people and seeing them feel the spirit and see them be changed by the spirit, it is the most amazing thing I have ever seen I love it, seeing peoples lives being changed right in front of us, so yeah thats it, sorry it’s not very much today don’t have too much time today, well have fun and tell lia and sam I love them and give them hugs for me, well I love you and miss you sooo much thanks for everything,
adíos
con muchisimo amor
Elder Curtis

a couple of posts

Hey make sure you scroll down, there were a couple of posts yesturday!!!
Cindy

Elder Claus

so this week has been interesting.... on tuesday we woke up at 6 30 to shower and stuff and to find out there was no water in our whole house no showers no toilet nothing! so we got to shower out of a little 5 gallon bucket... that was interesting, and don’t ask about the toilet...... haha jk so that lasted till sunday morning when the water filled back up, I was sooo happy to take a real shower, I never realized how much I took for granted and didn’t realize how nice I really have it with more things than just water..... with everything, my family, Lia and Sam, my friends it was interesting. So yeah I tried on the Santa costume its complete with jacket, pants, hat, beard, and glasses and its actually really big on me haha I don’t know how it looked with a little Mexican in it hahahah so yeah we get to stuff it with pillows or something, so thats way cool that Ray got to see me! haha he has my email I don’t know why he didn’t send me an email haha i'll write him next week but yeah that’s awesome, so yeah that’s what it’s like here and on saturday the elder that was here right before me went home this last change this was his last area so he came back with his parents to visit some people so we hung out with this lady who lives across the street her name is Hermana Beeges she is soo cool she feeds us all the time like almost a meal each day and we get to wash our clothes in her washing machine which is really awesome and she’s just super cool but yeah so with the other elder and his parents it was cool she cooked up a nice lunch for us all and turns out that family is from Gilbert Arizona haha cool stuff so it was funny trying to watch them speak the tiny bit of Spanish they thought they knew haha so yeah it was just cool to see actual Americans its weird already and its only been like 7 weeks here haha well gotta go, I love you guys soooooooooo much give lia and Sam a hug and tell them I love them and to take care of their fish! Well I miss you guys and take care
adios for another week!
Elder Curtis

Elder Hamblin

We got this letter from Josh's best friend, it made me laugh! Oh I miss having the guys over to hang out, what a great group of kids!!! I called his mom and I guess he already told her, he said as soon as he saw Josh he was yelling "HEY IT'S FAT CURTIS,,,,I KNOW HIM!!!!!!" ha ha

hi rickert family
hows life?? life here in the dirty dirty south of guadalajara is pretty good crazy sometimes!! it was good to here from you guys im glad to here everything is going good i sure do miss you guys it was always nice to just come over to your guys house and chill. sorry i cant make this a longer letter but im out or time i gots to go back to work!! o one other thing im sure josh or elder curtis has told you about the event for the re dedecation of the temple they had ya i got to watch it here and i SAW HIM haha i was so excited it was awesome so tell him i got to see him!!!

love elder hamblin

Christmas

Hey family,
I've got lots of phone calls about what to do for Josh for Christmas. Truth is I'm not sure. There is no guarantee he will get anything we send him, I sent a package a month ago and he still is waiting for it. He's got letters and that kind of thing but the package thing is a mystery. I was going to put what we would spend for his Christmas in his savings account so if there's something he needs he has access to the money, otherwise he will have something when he gets home. Anyway he'd love to hear from everyone so cards letters are always wonderful! Don't forget to add pictures so he can see how families are changing. It's wierd to think he won't be here for the holidays but what a blessing for him to be where he is...especially since he gets to be Santa for the ward! ha ha!
love you all
cindy