Feb 13th letter

This cool guy named Antonio came to church yesterday.  We
taught him almost a month ago, and sorta forgot about him since he
didn't show a ton of promise... It was kinda hard because he was a
little drunk at the time, but he expressed desires to overcome his
alcoholism, he just didn't know how.  We left him with The Book of
Mormon and our number, telling him it would help him find the strength
to change, and to call us when he was ready.  Then, the other night,
the english ward missionaries ran into him and found out we'd taught
him before and invited him to church.  He accepted the invitation and
came.  We had to get him a ride, but he really enjoyed it and wants to
keep coming and be more involved.  We'll be working with him for the
next little while.


Perla is still going strong.  We're going to be working on a marriage
goal with her tomorrow.  She had a couple of questions about why
Joseph Smith was so important, and hadn't been reading the Book of
Mormon too much, but we explained the importance of all that and got
her going again on the book.


I think we accidentally put way too much pressure on Max, and he got a
little scared... He did come to church, but we're going to give him a
little break to see if it's something he wants or if he's just doing
it to make the members he's living with happy.


Anyways, the other day we were knocking on some trailers when a couple
goats came out of the bushes and followed us around.  They kind of
scared my companion a little because he thought they were going to ram
us, but they were pretty funny.  They tried to eat my sleeve a couple
times, and did butt me softly in the leg, but they were nice and went
with us to all the doors.  It made a great conversation starter haha.
I didn't have my camera though... I'll make sure to bring it next time
we go over there.  That reminds me!  I said I'd send pictures a little
while ago and never did....  I need to do that haha.  Sorry about that


I think I forgot to tell you the story of a couple weeks ago when this
random lady told us she likes to give food and gave us a huge pizza
and a bunch of huge bags of pizza toppings.  That was cool and has
made meals easier since most of the toppings were meat, we just add it
to everything and it becomes more filling.


I know how to make a bunch more mexican and south american dishes now,
so that should be pretty exciting later on.  It also turns out I
really like menudo (or it was probably called mondongo in dad's
mission...) I may have mentioned that, though.  Also habaneros.  They
are delicious.  Really hot, but really good.  On the anglo side of
things, though, I've also been eating a lot of peanut butter.

 Have a great week and a happy valentine's day, and I love you.


Elder Katzakian