Okay, so the first thing is… to call next week. Wahoo! We’re not sure where or when, hehehe. We are going to ask he bishop if we can call in the church, and we were thinking around 3:30 which is 4:30 pm (EST) your time? Anyway, we’ll work it out and I will try to do the same as last time to call and confirm right before.

So the swine flu… called la Influenza here I guess it hasn’t been too much trouble. However, with everyone home and we don’t have permission to knock on doors or contact in the street, it’s pure referrals… So we have been visiting lots of members and inactives and harassing them until they give us someone to visit, which has worked out well because we found new people to teach and we also are helping the members get over their fear of doing missionary work!

We have had a hard time as far as our investigators and baptisms, because there hasn’t been services for two weeks, which messed up stuff for us for almost a whole month of programmed [scheduled] baptisms. However, we are going to baptize a really great woman this week. Her family has been coming to church with us for a while and she could have been baptized earlier, but we let her choose her own date and she wanted Mother’s Day. So that was okay with us. Her husband still wants to wait a few weeks and their teenage daughters want to be baptized too. However, the parents want them to understand a little more, and since they haven’t come to church as many times.

They didn’t have any changes this cycle [transfer] because of the virus, so two of the Elders here will have 6 cycles in the same area… that’s 9 months! I think I would go crazy! One of them is a Zone leader and the other elder is in his first area in the mission…hehehe. Better them than me!

Well, I am super excited to talk with you on Sunday. Oh yeah, I read that Kerry had a sinus infection. Guess what I also woke up last Saturday 25 de Abril with a sinus infection. It was the day after all this broke out. Knowing the flu symptoms, I figured nothing was wrong. However, by Tuesday I was pretty sick and all of my District called me out and told me I had to call the Mission President. So it ended up all was well and it cleared up after a few days. However, I now have boogers thick enough to glue my hands together permanently.

Okay, well the time has come. I hope you are all safe and doing well. I love you and I am extremely excited to talk next week.

Love, Bryce

Sorry I wrote you earlier but the power went out in the middle so…

So I am sure that you have heard all about the viral breakout stuff going on here. Don’t worry it’s not that serious and besides it’s not too close to where I am…and don’t worry Mom, I am being cautious and following all of the safety precautions we have received.

So church was canceled yesterday which created lots of problems with our baptismal services and the groups of investigators we were not able to inform of the cancelations.

The good thing is there is not too much fear where I am, which in situations like this can be the most dangerous thing. The funny part is that everyone is wearing face masks like the dentist uses or like you see Michel Jackson wearing on TV. Its pretty funny one of the members gave us some too. I don’t think they realize it’s not air born! Anyway, besides viral out breaks there was a 5.7 earth quake today in Gerrero not too far from here (I know that’s not very serious) Nothing that has happened has been really serious, however I think there is a message that Someone is trying to get across!

Anyway, this week will be interesting… I had splits last week with my zone leader and that was fun. We found some really good new investigators!  Unfortunately none of them were able to come to church, because we couldn’t hold services…thats okay. Well, I remember writing more that this when the power went out, however I don’t remember what it was.

Really I just want you all to know that I am very safe and that I love you all very sincerely!

Bryce

Hello my lovely family,

Things have been a little rough, however successful this week. We had divisions [splits] with our Zone Leaders, I learned A LOT and we are working on applying what we learned. We have one really amazing investigator named Ramon. He reads everything we give him and then in the next visit we talk for along time about all of it.

He almost gave me a heart attack this week. We were waiting outside of the church for him and he was almost 30 min. late for his first sacrament meeting… we had talked with him that morning , so I knew he was going to come. When he went to get dressed he found that his suit was moldy, because he hadn’t used it since high school.

We also found a lot of families that we have been teaching this week. I think we are going to start focusing more on families. None of our investigators have been baptized yet, however 2 have a date for the 9th of November, and I believe everything will work out. We usually take a cab to church and we visit as many of our investigators as possible before, to remind them of their commitments.

[Kerry suggests that we should all specifically pray for these investigators and that their baptisms will go forward on the 9th.]

This week we are going to Mexico City three time to help with the open house, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. I am so excited, however we have to work so hard because we have little time to work.

[The rest of this are answers to questions we had ask Bryce.]

I didn’t really have any culture shocks mainly the language. The thing that I’m not really comfortable with is that people minus the drive [I think what Bryce is trying to say is that they drive crazy and...] don’t use seat belts. The food is fine, However I don’t like checheron much… its fried pig skin… yummm.

I hope that will do for now All is well here. I love you all very much and hope that everything is going great!

Love, Bryce