Week 6 Industrial

Well another week behind me family. Like always every week brings a new set of funny/weird stories haha. This past week was awesome! On Wed. we had the Baptism of this sweet little old lady whose life has just fallen apart. She has no money for food and her kids want nothing to do with her. She told us after her Bautismo that this is the first time in years that she has felt peace in her life. So the funny part of that day is that Elder Fuentes and I spent the whole day trying to heat the water for the font, because she made it very clear she would not be baptised in cold water. Unfortunately both wards lost the key to the boiler, so we weren't able to use that. So we spent hours with our little electro stick thing( that we use to heat our buckets for showers ) filling up buckets of hot water and pouring them into the font. It did pretty much nothing ha. Because shes so old and frail both me and Elder Fuentes were in the water with her. It took three times! to get her to go all the way under. The first time she went under up to like her cheeks ha. the second time everything was under but Elder Fuentes forgot he was holding her hand. But ya know what they say, third times the charm. The water was ice cold and we felt really bad about everything so we took her some dinner after. Even after all that she was so happy with her choice to be baptised. Amazing lady. The next day we were in a lesson with the poorest family i've seen here. they just have absolutely nothing. The lady offered me and Elder Fuentes this drink that she had made for us, so we couldn't turn her down. We told her we'd have a tiny glass. she came out with these giant full glasses of this weird green liquid. I took 1 sip and just about threw up ha. it was the consistency of snot and tasted awful!!! I took a few more sips but i just knew i couldn't. I looked at Elder Fuentes and he looked like he wanted to die ha. Thats when i decided to teach about prayer and told the family to go in their backyard to find 2 special prayer rocks. When they left, we scrambled through their house, found a plastic bag, and dumped both our glasses in it, then the bag of snot drink into my bag. So that was pretty funny/terrible... I have many more stories to share, but do not have time today. Life's definitely crazy down here. The spicy food is killing me like always, but i'm doing well like always! Today i got a new comp named Elder Galindo. He's awesome! Also ive decided that Mexico is not made for tall people. Im always hitting my head on doors and lights haha. Oh the joys. Keep making good choices and reading in the scriptures. I can promise all of you that that is the way to real joy and happiness. I love and miss you all with all my heart! Have a great week!!

Mucho Amor
Elder Richardson

New Companion - Elder Galindo!

Baptism of Juanita