We received this email late on Monday night.
All's Well
Hey I´ll write tomorrow I´m training and we had training all day to do that. I´ll write you tomorrow. Everything is great and we're really excited!
Then on Tuesday we received his weekly letter.
Well, I hope that you got my email last night. We were busy all day with some training for us as trainers and then training for our new companions. We got 4 new missionaries this transfer, a lot smaller than the 12 to 15 that have arrived for the last 6 or 7 transfers. For some reason President Ramirez thought it would be a good idea for me to train one of the 2 Elders that got here yesterday. After spending a few hours eating and in the training we got paired up with our companions. I'm with Elder Maceda. He's from Puebla Mexico, south of Mexico City. We're pretty excited to get to work and we have plenty to do.
So it's my 5th transfer, 4th companion and guess what...............4th area too!!!!! We got put in Ebano, San Luis Potosi. That means that I am in a different state of Mexico!!!! I guess what my zone is Panuco, which means that I get to go to Veracruz for my district classes!!! I´m getting to know some new areas. It´s pretty cool. We are opening Ebano after about 5 months of it being closed. There hasn't been a ton of success here in the past but there is a lot of potential. It really does depend on the missionaries. We have some good plans already laid out to find people to teach. I figure with 40,000 people in our area there should be a few people willing to listen to us. There are people everywhere we just have to stop them and teach them, and with faith and hard work and maybe just a little bit of luck too (aka blessings from God) we should be able to have some baptisms. We are going to give it everything we have these first two weeks so that this transfer we can have some baptisms. We're really excited and have some great plans. (PS Ebano is a branch).
The good news is that they left my companion this time in my old area to keep working. I really appreciate that.
Well last week we went to eat on Saturday. We sat down and the sister brought what she thought was chicken. Now there are a few options. Maybe the chicken had steroids. Maybe I´m going crazy. #3 the most likely is that it wasn't chicken. It was shaped like a chicken leg/drumstick, but it was way bigger than my hand. My best guess is that was cat. It tasted good and something similar to chicken but it was definitely not chicken (and it wasn't turkey either).
My birthday was really good. We worked all day and really there wasn't time to eat in a restaurant nor were we hungry enough. It was a really good day and we had some alright success that day.
Our only thing that we have left to worry about now is the food for the rest of the week. We´re trying to get in contact with the branch president and the relief society president. We´re going to find them tonight and we should have food for the week.
Everything is really good and we are giving it everything that we have. It's warm and sweaty but really good (we do have AC)
Keep up the good work and doing the things that you should. I love you all and hope that you can all take advantage of the time and opportunities taht you have.
I love you
Elder Brady Allred
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