6 MONTHS!!!

Hey!

So today it's been 6 months already! it's pretty crazy how it's already been 6 months. time flies! But ok first, before i forget, haha the address of the house i am living in, it's: 2862 Oceanview Blvd. Up on the top haha and then there is the school across from the house and thats where we have church. But right now we are going to move, agosto 2 to a different house in 3016 Franklin. it's still pretty close, about two blocks away. So yeah, you can check out the houses, but only those because the others are pretty sketchy haha. nah its not too bad.

Oh ok and about the tape repcorder, i will TRY and do it tonight haha we shall see.. nah i will and try send it out to you guys in the next couple days. and then what you can do is look for tapes for the recorder and bye those or something i dont know. up to you.

Next on the line of topics PICTURES. OK dad hah i know i havent taken pictures but i do have some pretty good excuses... ok number 1, my camera doesn't work. haha pretty good one right. the thing always says new batteries, needs new batteries, but i went and bought some and it still says the same thing so i dont know whats up with it..? so thats one reason. the second one is i am a guy, since when do guys stand in the pictures? that's what girls do, i don't know. haha i am just not a picture person. but i will try for you. hows that? pretty good right?

Oh, today in the morning we helped a family move to the ghetto about two blocks down from us and we were riding with them in their car and i looked in the back and i saw a mexican from tijuana. jk. no, i saw an L&L hat and so i got all excited! i asked if he worked there and he said yeah and some of his family too. so now i got hookups to L&L. huge blessing! see that's a testament right there in itself that if you give up your life, don't worry what to eat or where you sleep. the Lord will provide. He didn't provide something lame, like a salad store. But L&L, baby. Allelujiah! So that was the bright side today. Oh guess what too dad! the L&L in the ghetto here, they have Orange Bang but mexican style, sooo good...

So anyways this week has been pretty good again. Margarita is doing way good, she comes to church every sunday with out any if, ands, or buts. it's way sweet to see how much different she is, it's definitly worth it to be here. even though its nothing that i did to change her. because i hardly did anything. it was all the lord. but right now she reads every night the Book of Mormon and she reads the child Book of Mormon tambien con sus ninos, oh and before she didn't know how to pray in Spanish, but we taught her how finally, before she was like no it's ok, i am fine, i don't want to learn, haha. but so yeah she is doing awesome. her kids are still crazy though. we are waiting till they turn eight to clease them of the devil in them. they are just all over the place. it's hard too - the members are getting mad because the kids run all over the place in church. but we figured out how we can fix it. we are going to get some chains and a sound proof room and put them in there, problem solved. Just yesterday, oh the beeessst dinner i have ever had. oh Brokedamout! It was onions, zucchini, squash, tomato, chile, cheese. oh man i am going to try and learn how to cook it. so good, it's funny too because it was really spicy, but i can't even tell anymore, spicy is the bomb. i can't eat food, or its not the same, if there isn't chile on it. But my companion from peru cant handle it haha he's a bebecito, but it's funny to watch him when he starts tearing up. finally someone different than me who does the crying.

Last story. The past couple weeks there is this one senora that has had alot of stuff that happened to her. it's a pretty sad story. her husband was deported but first brought to prison for a month and there he was beaten up bad. he still isn't feeling the best and right now he is in tijuana and she is here in San diego and she can't go over to see him because she doesn't have papers. this past week too, her younger brother who was investigating the church for 8 years was killed and it wasn't an accidnet too. she doesn't know what happened becuase the police doesn't want to tell her, so it's that bad and she just doesn't understand why this is all happening to her. And we told her that there are times when things will happen to us and it will test our faith, we tell our investigators that when you are trying to do the good thing, that's when you will find the most opposition. BUT, no matter what you are facing, no matter what you are being challenged with - The Gospel of Jesus Christ can help you. it's as simple as that. we don't need to fear anything. not one thing. Following His Gospel will help you find peace in this life. So we have been talking with her trying to help her. Her name is Carmen. If there is one thing i have seen out here, it's how hard this life is. it is tough and a lot of times we take what we have for granted. well at least for me. But there are tons of sad stories here that i have heard. sad, sad stories. I am just glad i know what i know, because without it, i just don't know, i just dont get how people do it on their own. The teachings of Jesus Christ are the solution.

Ok but i got to go and get on with the rest of the day. Love you guys and hope everything is going good. Dad, Send pictures braddah! haha please...

Love Elder Thomas