Whenever you get up I'd love to get that talk! I've been coming early to do emails lately because... long story, but basically it's always this way so sorry!
Wow fun week! Those pictures of Blakes ranch are rediculous. That place is huge. I wanna go there too! I'm glad that you guys already like his family too. It's so good to hear all of these good things about him and stuff because Amanda needs it! She's been through a lot and it's about time!
Yeah so this week was... crazy. It rained really hard yesterday even though it's been really hot, so we weren't prepared with umbrellas and got SOAKED. It was a lot of fun. :) Besides that, this has been such a rediculous week of working really hard and not having ANY success! We talked to so many crazy people. Literally, you name the contact and we probably had it this week. Drunk people, atheists like no tomorrow, "convict agnostic" (which doesn't really make sense to me but whatever), people who believe in reeincarnation and Spiritualism... we (elder Carrelo and I) also sent out a challenge for the zone, that whatever companionship contacted more people than us on Wednesday (the day after the new transfer officially started), we would buy them a tub of ice cream! So we went crazy and talked to over 150 people that day, which was a lot of fun! One cool part about it was that we got to lots of different types of contacts that we don't normally do. Most of the time it's kind of rote, but we had some fun and tried out lots of approaches.
Also, I saw something pretty disturbing; Saturday night, we were walking home around 10 PM and passed this HUGE group of people holding candles, and in the middle was this statue/shrine to Mary of Fatima, who Catholic's believe is Mary the mother of Jesus, who appeared in 1916 or so to three shepherd children, and now they worship her. No joke! So they were walking and had this huge shrine thing held up by 6 or so guys above their heads, and they were reciting this chant over and over about how Mary saves people from their sins and from death and basically it's really idolatrous and not okay. Like I don't normally talk bad about catholics or other people in general, but this was really bad! I couldn't believe it! Christ wasn't even mentioned or shown during the whole thing. Really really crazy!
We also marked Vitor and Dorina for the 24th of June! They will finally be married and baptized! We are stoked. I'll try and get a picture with them this week. They're awesome!
I think that's a really cool thought about "the Rock." I'm excited to hear from Sister Cleaveland!
Well that's about all for the week. Love you mom! If you can send me the talk, please do. :) Thanks! love ya!
Love, Elder Valentine!
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