FLORIDA CITY!

Hello Mommy!

(mom have you gotten my letter?) oki doki thats awesome that Kathleen talked to you guys! thats awesome!, no she is not a member but i think she will be soon.  I love working with her she is really good! she is down to my level and its really nice.  haha i have to agree to what her lds boss says, she has got good hands. after all the excersizes she does soft tissue work, so it is a heavenly massage and then off to working in the field. i have been on bike all week and i feel better than ever (well, at least better than i was) jaja pues what else can i tell you. (haha i used pues, funnyword) so now i am only going to physical therapy once a week now,which is good, cuz now i have more time to call people to repentance... lol have you ever heard of Florida City? if not it is basically like the northside of lethy,. here it is gangsta town. lol there are alot of spanish people because it is the ghetto and a lot cheaper, but more than nothing alot of blacks. who are super cool people, I look back and i was super racist towards them, but a lot of them want a better life, which is perfect because that is what Christ is offering them! through ME! This has been a miracle week. we have met every single key indicator goal! but Anthony, in Florida City, is getting baptized hopefully the 17th, we have to get him married to his girl and then teach him a little more, and then Tamika, in homestead, wow, we blessed her my second day in the area, and gave her a book of mormon pass-along card, and the next day we got the referal saying she wants the book of mormon, so a couple days ago we gave her one, she is reading it and last night we passed by to teach her and she read it, prayed about it and feels it  is true and accepted to be baptized on the 17th!!! the lessong took maybe 5 minutes and we were out, we have to get her married too. but during the closing prayer which elder Benitez offered, her little 2 year old daughter came up to me, i was folding my arms, and she grabbed my hands and held them, lol it was so adorable! cute baby! and then we left, and some hispani-trash guy asked us to smoke weed with him and we said no and he started cussing us out and bad mouthing us. and when a latino cusses and curses you out, the words they say, mean something about 50 times worse than they do in english, Ryan will see that. Well maybe not cuz he's I'm spain not in the devil's hide-out haha. In this area, you really have to have alot of patience when it comes to people on the streets. cuz you dont know who is gang and who isnt. but its all cool. we put 90 miles on the car this past week, it was awesome! i feel so good now that i have more energy!.

The other day, when i was studying, i had a daydream, it was Teiler... i saw him in a poorer country (almost third world) with a white shirt, a tie and name-tag...He was a missionary! if i could describe the country i would say it looked like either Tonga or Samoa but idk. lol anyway. in the daydream, he was helping this man out, and the man ended up asking to be baptized, and after aweek or so, Teiler batpized him. it was super cool and i almost started crying, I want him to serve a mission so bad! its the best decision i ever made and there are NO REGRETS! Just thinking about the missionaries that would come to our house in the past, to think that i am one of them is amazing! i am a member of the Defendors of  Zion. one of 56 or so thousand. that is quite the army of heleman eh? (muahahaha still Canadian) I spent a little money off the card a couple days ago on bike parts because my tire blew, and i needed a new tube and tire.,i think it was almost 30 bucks or so. oh with the package don't forget to send some Starlight CD's for the peeps down here. thanks! 


I never thought missionary work would be this fun! you know after you graduate you get bored, then all you are doing is working, and you feel you should still be at school but then you head on the mish and you feel outta place for a while but then it becomes who you are and you are right at home. I cant wait to help my cousins, and my Brother prepare for their missions. but i am excited to continue the work here. 


Something now for maria and her mom, they came to visit me yesterday but i had to ignore them. Tell them that it was me that told the other missionaries to tell them that i couldnt have contact with them, and that it was me who said that cannot visit me anymore. tell them i am sorry and then tell them it is because president just wants me to stay focussed on my purpose. Tell them i love them and i am praying for them always! and now something for Teiler... Dude you are graduated!!!!!! or close to it.. but dont get caught up in graduated life, sometimes it sucks! lol, but at the same time you dont have to worry about high school drama lol.. so you gonna just work or go to school? Well i think thats all for this week, I love you all and thenk you for everything! 


Yours Always


Elder Maki