mmm... Toasty - April 21, 2009

Dear Family,

Well another week has speedily gone by. Transfers are coming up (We'll find out what happens Saturday or Sunday), We have a baptism this Sunday, and it's getting so hot that I think Satan went back to Hell to get away from the heat. As for business I needs Jeff Groesbeck's address so I can write him. Dano if you're reading this then I still haven't received your letter but I have hope. Thank you so much for working on getting me more shirts, mine are just about toast and now I don't have to worry about getting more stitched.

The baptism this Sunday is John Bobbi, a great young man. He's been coming to church since December with his friend who is a recent convert from last year. When I first met John I thought he was a member because he was so comfortable with church services and had a lot friends. The reason why we've been taking it slow with him is because we want to make sure he is fully commited to coming to church. We brought a counselor of the branch presidency over yesterday to check up on him and gave the approval for him to be baptized. John was way excited and he bore an amazing testimony.

I got double duty this week because I have to go on exchanges with all the elders once more before the transfer finishes. Because the mission is filled with young missionaries President Nichols ordered for double the exchanges so that the knowledge from the older elders can spread quickly to the younger ones. I don't consider myself an older elder by any means but we do have one older elder in the district so I take that opportunity to learn from him so at least I can pretend to be experienced in front of the younger elders:)

Going back to the heat we got to be really careful. We get dehydrated quickly even though we're drinking plenty of water because we lose all the salt through our sweat. The other day I lost all of my energy and we were probably going about 3mph on our cycles at the fastest because I just couldn't push any harder. It kind of brings me back to my wrestling days. The temperature gets up to 41 degrees C and the humidity is killer. This morning I went out to play soccer and within five minutes my shirt was drenched with sweat. I'm looking for some type of electrolyte packets so I can stay energized.

Our teaching pool is getting healthier everyday. We are meeting with a lot of new people everyday that are showing some great potential. One problem is that a lot come from the same church and I have a feeling that the pastor is gonna get suspicious of us. We actually already met the pastor's son and he was a nice kid so maybe we can make this relationship work out. One man we're teaching, Hari Babu, was really excited to hear from us. When we gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon his eyes went wide. We're going to meet his whole family on Friday and he said he'll bring them all to church. We visited him yesterday and met his son who was playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I was pretty surprised to see someone playing a video game in Raj but that gives me an idea that they also have the internet and therefore we can finally use mormon.org. That would be a real treat for us.

I better start wrapping this up. I love you all so much and thank you for your support. Umm I'm thinking I might need some more stick old spice deodorant so if you could send that up in the next package that would be great. Make sure to insulate it with newspaper or something so it doesn't melt. Also if I could get some more pics of the kids and also of Matthew and Dustin and their families that would be great.

Love you a million Shady trees and central A/C churches,

Elder Curtis Mackay