Dear Mom & Dad,

How are you doing? It has been extremely hot down here I don´t know how the other missionaries do it. Even the breeze kind of burns and that isn´t a joke. Everyone is telling us that this is the fall weather and that the heat is tremendous. We got food poisoning twice this week the worst being this last Saturday. We are still a little sick, but we both bought Gatorade, a lot of water, crackers, and Pepto. Yep, the pink stuff is very common down here and everyone knows what it is, because even their own food gives them problems.

I enjoyed conference but we were only allowed to go the Priesthood Session on Saturday night and only the morning session in Sunday. All of the other sessions including the afternoon session were prohibited unless we could bring an investigator. We tried to get a family of four to conference who were former investigators, but they slept in from the time change. President Salinas tells me that he is here to take me to my absolute limits, and I believe him. I have felt my abilities increase. I am still suprised that I am a trainer. Presidente said that the Spirit would not let him deny that I needed to be a trainer when he was doing the changes. He said that nothing could change the Revelation that he recieved about me being a trainer - nothing and no one.

Elder Serrano and I get along really really well. Presidente Salinas and Hermana Salinas interviewed us and Presidente said that Elder Serrano loves me up to absolute craziness (I think is the translation). We have our own private jokes about everything. Man he has had the runs poor Poblano (Poblano means that your from Puebla, also called the City of Angels). He went to the bathroom like nine times yesterday in the evening and we stayed in the house. We are going to a store called Cheddraui, which is like Walmart, because it´s closer and he says that he won't make it on the ride on the bus. No Walmart :( I haven´t had problems since yesterday morning. I have started like a permanent sweat since two or three weeks from the heat. It is so hot! I think when I come home I will put on a sweater outside in mid-summer.

I want you to know that I love you and that really I am doing my best.Thanks for the poem of Invictus, I remember watching a movie that was based on the South African soccer team that won the World Cup and united the country when Nelson Mandela took power and motivated everyone. I really like the movie. Please congratulate Kira for Mexico I don´t have time to write her or Chet - I still have to write President my weekly report. I love you.Please help us all find the Revelation that we need now. I will take care of myself down here and we are doing it.



Mase