Hey!
My first week with Elder Sypherd has gone quite well. We had some successes and some interesting experiences. It was a good week. On Monday we had changes and after we took Sypherd's bags back to the pench we went back to Varela and ate lunch with Elders Spencer, Beltran, McCrary, and Champlin. This is my third time being in the same zone as Elder McCrary and Spencer and the second time with Champlin and Sypherd. I bought some last second stuff for Sam and Pete for the Maxfields to take back with them. On Tuesday we went to lunch with the Maxfields at the Peruvian restaurant that Maxfield and I used to always go to and it was sooo good. I forgot how good it really was. Sypherd said it was the best food he's had in the mission so far. I must second that. It was really cool being with Maxfield and his parents. A little weird considering they had been in the USA the day before. They seemed like something from a dream. They're really nice people. He's got some good parents. It was weird having Maxfield out of the loop. There were a couple times during the week when something would happen and I would think to call him and ask him or tell him something but then I would realize I couldn't because he's done. He's on an airplane right now I think heading home. Its weird.
Elder Sypherd and I were looking for an inactive family this week and I looked in the member list we have to look for their address and I looked at their names. It usually has the heads of the family offset to the left a little and I saw the ages of the two offset names and I said man I really hope this is a father-daughter and it just lists them both as heads of the family. We got there and they let us in. They were really good people. He's a karate teacher. It turns out they are married. He's 73 years old and he won't be double her age for 13 more years. You do the math. They're nice and they're happy so whatever works for them, I don't have a problem, I've just never heard of such a big age difference in a marriage. 43 years. They've got three boys of 7, 5, and 2. If somebody told me my wife won't be born for 23 years I wouldn't even laugh. Yikes! No sir.
When I was with Elder Watt there was one night at 8:30 and we didn't have anything to do. Clapping houses at night very rarely yields results and he just wanted to go back to the pench. I told him I wouldn't go back to the pench early. We gotta go the second mile. He didn't want to clap houses so he kinda just followed me. We clapped a few houses with no results. I went with a prayer in my heart that something good would come of the extra effort. We passed a house with a bunch of kids outside playing together and I asked if their parents were home. One of the little girls ran inside and came back out and said no they're busy. We said thanks and turned to keep walking and one of the little kids-5yr old-shouted hey wait! My mom's home and she's not busy, go visit her! We live over there on the corner, go talk to my mom! We looked at each other and went over to talk to his mom. She came out and we talked to her for a few minutes. She was really nice and told us if we came back another day when its lighter outside she would be happy to talk to us. Her name is Silvia and she's coming along quite well now. She's a really nice lady, probably 50ish with two little kids 4 and 5 year olds.
Braian, AnahÃ's 13 year old cousin came to church again and during sacrament asked me how soon he can get baptized. That he wants to get baptized now. So we'll be over there teaching him the stuff so that he can get baptized soon. He's a good kid. He and a bunch of other kids in the ward came to the church to play soccer on Saturday and it was really fun. I'm not too bad at soccer now. It's fun stuff. Anyway that's all the time I've got for this week. I love you guys and I look forward to hearing from you next week Sam.
Love, Matt
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