Swine Flu, Baptism, Service & Wood Chopping 101

Hi All Ya’ll!!
Greetings from Texas once again. This might be my last full week in this area because transfers are next week. SO I’ll get a phone call this Sat night, and I’ll let you know next Monday if I am leaving this great area.
Well, this week has been very slow because I believe that my companion got the swine flu. So we stayed in for about 2 days. We stayed inside for one whole day!! That drove us crazy! So we were excited for the next day to meet with our investigators.
I finally have a baptism Date!!! Her name is Teresa, and her parents were baptized months ago, and she was like if my dad believes in this church it has to be true. (Her dad is like the biggest secpeted in the world.) She had a baptism date before but she didn’t keep it because she didn’t believe she was ready to get baptized. But she believes she is ready now.
Then my whole entire zone got to do a service project for an English Investgator name Mary. She was found by the elders and she lives in the scariest place ever. Well, not during the day. You know those scary movies when they are driving on a road in the forest? She lives down that street. She has a HUGE plot of land and we cut down some of her trees and picked up a lot of trash. That was a lot of fun. I told the Elders that I passed Wood Chopping 101 and I can use an AX( they didn’t know graduating wood chopping 101 is just holding the ax). But they didn’t have an ax, they had a chain saw! So somehow I convinced them that I can use a chainsaw. And for some odd reason they let me use it!! So I’ll see if I can post of picture of me with the chainsaw.
Then we met with Josue Flores. He is ready to be baptized and we were going to set a date with him but his dad, Hno Flores wants to baptize his son. But the only problem is that he has Word of Wisdom issues and his wife left him and won’t tell us. So he is avoiding us, but we need to set a date. (Which would be in a month). But Hno Flores wont talk to us! So we are in a little situation.
Then guess what? I got a fever and we had to say in because it is a mission rule, that we love sharing stuff, but not our sickness. I don’t know what constitutes as a fever but it was about 99.6 and my companion made us stay in. blah. But on Sat. all of our appointments cancelled on us or wasn’t home. So my trainer told me welcome to real mission work. She told me that we have been really blessed with people who keep their appointments and people who want to hear the Gospel. So that was hard. I actually had to knock some doors!!! But nothing really came about because they weren’t home or had too much to drink to share a message with them.
In conclusion, this week was ok but it wasn’t the best. But I decided that, in Texas, I’ve seen more Virgin Mary than Jesus Christ. I knew Mary was important but I didn’t know she was THAT important.
Well, everyone I love you and miss you!!! Keep those letters coming!!
Love Always,
Hermana Beetso