Monday, January 4th

Wow! 2010! How crazy. I come home this year. That's nuts.

Well, this week was good. We kept busy. We're working hard,
and finding some great people.

I'll give a little update on my spider bite. It's definitely
healing, as you can tell from the picture. I'm glad that it
didn't get any worse than it did. How grateful I am for
medicine!

It was so good to talk to you all on Christmas. It was great
to hear from y'all again. It sounds as though everyone is
doing well, which as always a great thing to hear.

We're working with some great families here in Zapata.
One of them, Carlos and Bertha, were attending another
church when we found them. Well, they told us on
Saturday that they're other church closed down. We
didn't know whether to celebrate, or to give our
condolences. However, they weren't there yesterday, so
we'll need to find out what happened with them.

We did have an investigator come to church yesterday
though. Apparantly this part-member family moved up
from Brownsville just recently. He's a member, his wife
isn't, so we'll be working with them.

Well, I guess pictures are worth 1,000 words, so this will
be a really long email.

I love you all!

Love,
Elder John

P.S.The longhorns are mine. I got them this last week.
Now I need to figure out shipping them home.

There's an updated picture of my spider bite.
The others I think are self-explanatory. :)