Baptisms!

For Brock: yo quiero que sepas que te felicito. vos seras buen padre y yo me asombro que por fin llego tu tiempo! te quiero mucho che pero todovia opino que sos "un fatti" por casarte 2 semanas antes que regrese a la casa...y ahora ni tengo esperanza en verte jamas...me pongo triste vos...pero que me mandes fotos o te mato por seguro! jaja. bromeo...?o bromeo?...te quiero che. disfrutalo vos. que viva uruguay! y que gane a costa rica a fin que vayan al mundial!

Irmina y Manuel have a date for the 25th!
the rama [the branch president] was super stoked to hear that the familia ortega are going to be getting baptized the 25th of this month! Manuel is super super ready...he himself told us after we asked him how his prayers are going and he said that he feels 100% prepared...he is a stud. Manuel is a bigger guy: about the height of dad but has a Buddha belly and glasses like the dali lama and a sense of humor like I would imagine President Hinkley having. And Irmina is still praying and isn’t 100% sure but she still wants to do it. And their boy Imanuel or Alex went to church and liked it alot...its kinda hard to teach them all como familia because Alex speaks spanish but speaks more inglish and the gospel words go right over his head...so we kinda have to do bilingual lessons and through all of that the lil one called Abraham is runnin around like a lil ball of SUPER compact energy...its fun though... Irmina asked is she could adopt us... I told her I would ask...haha
but honestly other than that and a few other lessons our week was hecka rough...we were on bikes agin... and the cold came in...elder valazquez does not like cold...haha. he asked me if i was freezing cus i had a sweeter on and he had a long sleeved shirt a sweater and a SUPER thick wool coat and said he was freezing and i think it was only 55 degrees...haha. the bad thing is that at 55 degrees the wind feels about 30. the cold here is nothing like the cold in the west the humidity is pretty hardcore. and elder valazquez isn’t enjoying it. haha. but we get alot of hot chocolate and other mysterious hot drinks from our hispanic friends...haha.
Hermatage is a cool lil town its weird being in an area were there are borders that we can reach haha. Sunday a lady named Sister Martinez from El Salvador decided to just give us about 10 tamales after church because she loves us and that is fine with me cus she is a baller and I love tamales.
we still walk around all day quoting Hno Chacon and the Salvadoranos because their accent is cool... and Brother Chacon says some hecka funny stuff.
today were going to go and eat with the Ruiz family agin, and she is making pozole which I am stoked about!
well family i love you all and hope you are all still alive cus I haven’t gotten your letter yet. but by time is up...
i know the lord lives, and Joseph was his prophet.
-elder richardson