Written November 28, 2011; Sent November 29, 2011; Recieved December 22, 2011

Lunes 28 de Novembre 2011
¡Nikki!
You ran the MARATHON! That's amazing, ya know. . . . We'll have to see about the whole "me joining in" next year. . . I might die. . . and maybe literally. . . ;) No, probably not, we'll see. ;) I think my parents might be stalking you. . . ;) jk, lol! No, it's just that they told me that they saw a picture of you right after ending the marathon, and then later that you had replaced Oreo with a cute new puppy, but that's all. I know you'd do great in the marathon, and that you'd be able to finish! You've got awesome running skills, like that. ;) (but serious, eh.) Can you even read this!? I just noticed that my handwriting has gotten horrid. . .  ,':/ oh well, I hope you can. ;) So, I'm doing pretty good out here. I got changed again, now I'm in Moroleón, Guanajuato. (Everyon works in some phase of making clothes here! Whether it's stamping the image on the fabric or ebroidering, or cutting the pieces or sewing them together, or selling the fabric to begin with, EVERYONE works in clothes here!. . . ok not EVERYONE, but the VAST majority ;) Oh, and everyone and their dog has a motorcycle/mo-ped/scooter, but that's NOT an exaggeration (spelling) There are more of those than cars here! they have their own little parking spaces too! Ha ha! It makes me kind of want to have mine again. . . my little yellow scooter. . . that died. . . :( Ha ha ;) oh well, we can't be on vehicles like that as missionaries anyway. . . :P . . . saftey rules. Oh well, it's there for a reason and I MUST obey! ;) I really like it here. :) ) Ok, I'm not quite sure I put that whole think in parenthasis. . . oh well. ;) But, yeah, if you want to buy clothes in México, this would be the place! It's super cheap. (as in well made with a low price) The members here are a little. . . different, let's say. But they're good people, they just need to stop talking bad about each other. That would help them a TON! But they're good people. Our investigators are awesome! Two of them are teenage brothers (15 and 13). The 15 year old (Jony) went to EFY and loved it and then he came to church for a few months, but then his mom said he couldn't get baptized. . . and  now she doesn't even let him come to church anymore, just to the activities. But he knows that the church is true and wants to be baptized. The 13 year old (Ivan - [ee-vahn]) Is I'm pretty sure the best investigator that I've ever had. He learns SO fast! And he's always saying to his dad, "¡Andale! Dejame ir a la capilla!" (Come on! Let me go to the chapel!) But he doesn't really pay much attention to him. . . sadly. They are some of the better youth that's here. Jony always has his "For the Strength of Youth" and his "Book of Mormon" with him, and Ivan carries his "Book of Mormon" and the pamphlets and some Liahonas. They're awesome. Their parents are good people with good intentions, but they're just a little confused when it comes to religion. . . we're trying to open their minds. . . ;) They just need to feel the Spirit super strong, that's all. ;) One day when we walked out of our apartment, there was a little green parrot. He was there for the whole day, and so the next morning we chased him into our apartment because it was cold out there. We put up signs on the doors of the other apartments, but no one came to claim the bird. So we gave it to one of the young men in the ward, but first we named him "chicken" but in Spanish: "Pollo" [poy-yo] He's really pretty, bright green with several shades of blue in the wings,

Pluma del Pollo

his only downside is that his previous owners cut the feathers of his tail, and it doesn't really look very good. . . but they fell out and new ones come in with time. ;) Anyway. . . Oh! We have a part-member family that we're working with. The ones who are members are kind of inactive (a mom w/3 kids 17, 15, 13) The mom and 17 year old are members . All the kids are kind of punkish. . . Ha ha! but they just make me laugh. Actually, Daniel (17) is going to make us pizza on Wednesday. But yeah, they're going to be a lot of work. . . I'm pretty sure that they all smoke, (maybe not the 13 year old), some of them drink, their language can be rather. . . course? (is that how you say it?) But they're good people, and they have really good questions. We were able to have a good first "lesson" with the mom yesterday. (and her kids too :) ) But yeah, the work's good out here! :D How're you doing? Where'd you go for Thanksgiving? How's school going? How're Lu and Louie? ;) I hope that you're doing well, and that you're happy. Hope to hear from you soon!

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