Happy Memorial Day!

Jared (in the middle)was baptised.

Jared, his wife and baby!

Hey Family!

Thanks for the email Birthday cards, but no I couldn’t see it or hear it on the computer. :( but I know you meant well! haha I LOVE YOU ALL TOO!) No they don’t have packaged candy here but my district wants Pizza for my birthday, so that’s what they´ll get!
I have been able to get to a bank so thanks for the extra birthday money, I don´t think I will be using it cuz I still have a lot of money that we get each month. Thanks Mom for your idea, I will get a couple of my long sleeved shirts cut off and hemmed into short sleeved shirts, cuz it sure gets hot.

Well that’s good to hear its raining there in Arizona! It rained here too, the weather is so crazy here, things will flood in like 5 minutes, cuz it rains so hard. It’s been raining only at night which is worse cuz the next day its hotter and humid-er then ever! When it first starts raining hard, the power everywhere automatically goes out for the first 10 minutes. One evening we were just finishing dinner and everyone here has tin roofs, including hermana Gladis, so when it started raining we couldn’t even hear ourselves speak it was so loud.

Ha-ha Wow, I just re-read over my letter and I’m sorry if things don´t make much sense. I’m at that part of speaking and writing when you can´t speak English or Spanish well, cuz you’re learning one and don´t use the other as much. (Note from Sandra: I have to rewrite some of his sentences so they do make more sense, and sometimes I have no idea what he is talking about)

We had another baptism this week, his name is Jared. It’s awesome he´s has progressed so much. At first he had been drinking a lot and he has a girl friend and 1 child which is really common here (he´s 19 she’s 17). Half of our investigator families have 3 or 4 kids, but aren’t married. So they can´t really progress until their married and they don´t want to be married...so its hard. But we got Jared and his girlfriend married before he was baptized, which the missionaries pay for because the people can´t afford to get married. So that’s awesome!

When we baptized him ha-ha that was interesting. Before he was baptized we went to the church at 3:30 to fill up the font and get everything ready and when we came back for the baptism itself the font was half empty and the water shuts off automatically for 3 or 4 hours each day (which sucks cuz you can´t wash your hands or use the bathroom and flush the toilet) so we couldn´t refill the font. Also it had rained like crazy the night before and someone hit the electric pole by the church so there were no lights and barely enough water but we went ahead with the baptism. Jared was baptized at 5:45 and the sun is down at 6, so it was really dark in the church. He was confirmed the next day at church, in the daylight, so it’s all good now. I was on divisions with Elder Menendez who is from Salvador, he´s way cool, and he baptized Jared.

That’s about it, thank you for all your letters, emails, and cards. Thank you for your letter Amanda, it’s good to hear from everyone and Kade that’s awesome that you’re excited for your mission someday. Grandma Eliason thanks for the birthday money and birthday wishes.

LOVE YOU ALL!
Elder Buck

p.s. FYI The package we mailed McCoy in April finally arrived this week so it took about six weeks for him to receive it.