Beto's and Missionary Work

Heyo.

So this week... I'm going to attempt to employ some positive language here but, if this week was a breakfast item it would be one of those outrageously sized breakfast burritos from Beto's. They sound good, they look pretty good, they even smell okay sometimes, but halfway through you find cold potatoes, uncooked eggs, some of Beto's sideburn hair, and a deep fried band-aid. And then, just in this moment of great alarm, the screaming of your upper digestive tract reminds you that you're now 4500 calories closer to an early grave in the sea of low density cholesterol. And that's all I have to say about that. Suffice it to say, things did not go as planned with the group of prorrogas in Lima.

But in other, less artificially preserved news (< double entendre), we're seeing a lot of miracles in PeruLand. President had a phone call with Elder Waddell a while ago and Elder Waddell told him we're one of the top five most rapidly growing missions in the world. Intense. President is thinking about raising our yearly goal from 1800 to 2000. or 2012 baptisms in 2012. We're stoked. We'll see how things go in the next few months. It's weird how things stack up though. In the same week we finish one of the most successful months ever (during a 4-week change month) we also have four missionaries show up with crazy cysts, three of which have to be operated on, an endoscopy that reveals exactly nothing, migraines, infection-causing contact lenses everywhere we look, pinched nerves, detached muscle, expiring Chilean residency, unrenewed Interpol paperwork, non-refundable Lima flights for "personal paperwork," lost patriarchal blessings, even more lost personal identification, missed international flight connections and a missionary going on his 5th ingrown toe nail in as many months. Doesn't it ever just rain?

Fear not little family. I am happy. Just a little worn. Luckily we've got Conference, which by the way has been killer so far. So we rest on our sword for a while and then do work. For Conference we go watch the first session with President and Sister Turk. President makes eggs and some monster pancakes with fruit and ice cream and other cardiovascularly responsible things. So we're pretty well set up for conference weekend. It'll be good.