June 20th, 2011

Family.

Well not much happened this week. The only big thing I can think of is the HERNANDEZ REDEMPTION. We had lunch with the Hernandez family this last Saturday. I was more than determined to come out victorious. We walked in and she was baking SIX home made deep dish pizzas. All large. ah. I was 2 slices short of eating a whole pizza myself. My goal was one more slice than Brother Hernandez. It was so difficult. Halfway through the last slice, I realized that I wasn`t going to make it. I excused myself to the bathroom and vomited just a little, and then dropped to the floor and did 20 crunches as fast and as hard as possible. It`s amazing how much that helped. I walked back to my plate, and Brother Hernandez said "ah, you must not like pizza, you`re eating so slow." To our surprise I took the last have and gulped it down in three bites. 7 slices total, sbarro sized, takes two hands to hold pieces. Victory. Then we got dessert. Sister Hernandez used an entire breyers carton of ice cream between me, elder McRoberts and brother Hernandez, sprinkled with strawberries and raspberries. As if divine intervention, some really interesting conversation shot up, and half an hour later I was able to slurp down the last bite of ice cream. VICTORY. Then the intervention. Sister Hernandez started talking about what happened last time. And mentioned that she had found some TOMATO SLICES in the trash can. Elder McRoberts had been caught, there was no escape. Sister Hernandez told us, pointing to me "I am really mad at him, but at least he was sincere, and didn`t try to lie and cover up by throwing away the food." But she was really nice about it. HAHAHA. Oh sweet goodness. But now we are all on good terms, and she is going to feed us smaller portions, "like she did with the pizza" Sigh... She still doesn`t understand that missionaries can`t eat 4 times the normal person`s diet on a whim. They gave us a leftover pizza on Sunday, and jokingly said to Elder McRoberts "Now don`t throw this away, this doesn`t belong in the trash, you eat it." Poor Elder McRoberts, but at least they didn`t find the chicken...that would have been so horrible.

We had the two brothers at church this week, they really want to get baptized. They kind of terrorized primary, I feel bad for their teachers...but hey, what can you do? The work continues. Another girl in the ward who is 10 will be baptized on the 2nd of july, we`ve been teaching her.

Well, that`s all from my end, except that the mail strike has stopped all mail, in and out. So if you`re sending stuff, hold on to it until the end of the strike!

Peace,

Elder Holm