WEEK 81

These past weeks have been really good. Here are the highlights —

- THREE KINGS DAY
In Mexico, they celebrate Three Kings' Day. A lot of kids don't get presents on Christmas, but they get them on Three Kings' Day. They also eat something called Rosca de Reyes. It's a huge donut looking bread and they hide little plastic baby Jesuses inside. When you cut it open, if your slice has a baby Jesus, you have to buy tamales for everyone. We went and visited two different families and one of the times my piece had a baby Jesus inside so now I gotta buy them some tamales.

- EXCHANGES
We also had exchanges this week. I was with Elder Bailey in my area. He's the district leader of one of the districts in our zone and over all, he's a super good elder.  We got a lot of work done and saw tons of miracles. For lunch, we went to a member's house who had two dogs. After lunch, we walked like 40 minutes to a lesson and her two dogs followed us. We tried to get rid of them, but they kept following us. The dogs even jumped over a 7 foot wall to follow us! After we finished our lesson, the member called and asked if we had seen her dog. One was at home but she didn't know where the other went. So we looked for like 40 minutes, found the dog and then walked 40 minutes back to the member's house.

- FRIEND
Alright, so about two weeks ago, we found this guy who wanted to get baptized and serve a mission. But we didn't know he had mental problems and addictions. So one day, he finds out where we live and knocks on the door. We talk and then he heads off to walk to Mexico City, which is 13 hours from us - walking. He actually got there in 10. Then the next day, he comes back while we're not there and tries to break into our house. When we got back, we saw our door had a bunch of dents and screw driver marks from him trying to open the door. Not gonna lie, I thought we were screwed cuz I thought he was gonna try and come back while we were sleeping. Good thing my comp was a boxer. But the next day we talked to his mom and she said he's no in a mental hospital so we're all good.

Hope your week was as good as mine!

Love,
Elder Fuller


Our zone

Leadership meeting with the zone

My comp cutting my hair

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