A Short Email But Good Things Are Happening

Hey Family,


It’s good to hear how everyone is doing... I am doing really good too. This week has been a very long hard week. I don’t know why but all this week I have been super tired. Well...lets see what I did.

They had a night that is called a Purisima here. The Catholics do it. It’s where they first launch off a whole bunch of fireworks but they are not really fireworks they are just bomb things that explode and are really loud. After that the streets fill up with people going from house to house singing to the Holy Mary and receiving candy. It’s kind of like Halloween except they don't believe in Halloween they believe it is Satanic.

We went to the house of Familia Reyes (the family who had the concerns about baptisms for the dead) to help one of the recent family converts with her talk. When we got there it started to rain and her brother enters into the house with a bag of beans on his shoulder. I asked, Do you need help? He said yes but it’s really far away. I said that was alright. We leave the home and walk a mile to this field and its just pouring rain and we are soaked ha-ha. The family is there in a field gathering beans and putting in bags. The mom and dad are out in the field picking beans off the ground that were left over from the harvest and putting them into bags. I start to help and I’m just talking to them asking how they have been. Out of the blue…the dad said that he wants to start going to church again! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!

We have been working in a area called Barrio Hospital, which is a neighborhood I like to work in a lot. The people aren’t really responsive, even when I offer help or give service, which doesn’t bother me much. I found some thing here in the mission that keeps me happy, Serving Others. It’s like you said dad, “If we always help other people we won’t worry about our own personal problems and whatever problems we have seem smaller when we offer service.”

I just want to thank everyone that reads these letters and for all your love and support. I want to thank the Ross Family for their Christmas gift to me and hope all is well.

I’m sorry I’m going to have to make this letter short and I hope everyone has a good week. I love you all!

Elder Buck

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