Water Issues

This week was very interesting here in Mexico. On Sunday, the people voted for new political leaders. (The last 3 months have been pretty contentions while the political parties hash it out. In Mexico they don’t just have two political parties; there are more than 14! There are also a lot of people who  are against voting so on Saturday in almost 6 states, they burned the voting offices so nobody could vote. Saturday afternoon Pres Stutz got a call from the general authority who said that all the missionaries had to go home and that they could only leave their apartments for the church service on Sunday. So we spent the afternoon and most of Sunday in our house catching up on sleep.

We had a baptism here, and this is what the water looked like when we filled the font: Que asco!

But after buying a magic toilet brown water pill it looked like this! The baptism smelled like a bathroom with the toilet pill we put in there but hey, it looks great and didn’t stain the white clothes!

It rained super hard during our baptismal service and the church began to flood. (They don’t build anything very secure here so the water from the street just started pouring in under the door and under the sides of the building.) We spent 30 minutes fighting back the water that poured in. This was kinda funny because the baptism was originally planned for the weekend before, but when we showed up at the church last Sunday there wasn’t ANY water in the building! So we postponed the baptism a week and then we had an abundance of water!

Well everything is good here and I hope with you too. I love you and will send more pictures next week.

Elder Shumway