Elder Fox - May 4, 2008

So this week started out a little stressful... Monday night i got a call from the Secretary in the mission offices telling me that Alma Mendoza (one of our baptism´s last sunday) had already been baptized when she was really young. Before we interview Alma last week, she told me that she might be a member so i told her that we would find out for sure. The sister in the offices put her name in wrong when she investigated it, so obviously it came back that she wasnt a member. So we went ahead and baptized her on sunday. Since she was a member and you can only baptize someone once, it didnt count. Which ment that i only had 4 confirmations and couldnt go to the temple on wednesday. I was felt like Crap! but then remembered that we still had to confirm Ricardo ( the little kid that we baptized 3 weeks ago) So monday night we hurried home for the District meeting and went and sat in front of his house until he got home so that we could confirm him . Talk about pushing it to the last minute! I swear that should be my middle name here in the mission! All in all it all worked out so that we finished the monthly goal of 5 confirmations. Which mean yes i still got to go to the temple on wednsday! It was an awesome get away for the day in Monterrey. We at with all the Zone leaders at the Zone leader conference before our session which which made me feel pretty special cuz not everyone gets to do that. We spent alot of time and money ridin around in Taxis to get to where we needed to go so i did get to see alot of pretty sweet sites at night. The temple was awesome and gave me an extra spritual boost to start again this week. The last time i went to the temple was 8 months ago in Provo while we were in the MTC. I bought the Mendoza Family a triple combination at the book store beside the temple. I wrote my testimony in it and gave it to them of Friday with some of my favorite scriptures that i had marked for them to read. They loved it, and Alma wanted so bad to give me a hug, but i told her she couldn´t. She was mad and said,... why does it matter!?.... I kindly explained to her and she understood, but pretty much made me promise her that i would come back after the mission so that i can give her a hug.My companion takes alot of things i say a little too seriously so i decided to play a joke on him friday night haha. After we had turned out the lights i told him that i thought i had seen a Cucaracha (cockcroach) that was crawling up the side of his bed. haha he spent 15 minutes tearing apart his bed looking for one. haha. Yes he forgave me and we both laughed afterwards.On saturday we found and taught a guy whos name was ELDER!! How sweet is that!? Yeah i was pretty stoked too! Im pretty sure not every single elder in the mission finds someone whos first name is Elder... He even had it tatooed onto his leg, like i do on my chest!......... ok that sounded bad..... Its really just my name tag thats on my CHEST everyday haha.Sunday was another good one. Not because we had a ton of baptisms but because we finally got enough confidence with the Son of Alma Mendoza, so he came to church with us. We should him the baptismal font and excepted his baptismal date for this next sunday, the 11th. Now we just need to get the dad involved. We cant find anytime to teach him because of his work sceduale but hopefully something will work out soon.After church we starting contacting people in the street to finish our 100 contacts for the week. After i finished talking with someone in the street i got on my bike to ride over to my companion who was also contacting someone in the street. We i spread my legs to get on my bike i totally ripped the back seam of my pants!! haha yeah im not going to lie i was pretty embarresed. And it was the 3 pare of pants that i have ripped! Dont worry ya´ll im not really fat, my pants have just gotten really worn out from all of that hard mission work ya know :)Well thats about it for the week... Happy Mothers day to all this coming sunday!Elder Fox*