Happy America week!!! - the weekly email

So right now the local supermarket is having an America week. They have all kinds of America-inspired decorations, but more importantly, real American food. We're talking Reese's, Pepperidge farm cookies, Sour Patch, Licorice, AMERICAN MUSTARD, Heinz EVERYTHING, and even Lucky Charms. Sadly, the Lucky Charms were close to $20 a box, so I won't be getting those, but still, some awesome stuff. 

To counter all this American-ness, I finally got to eat bat. That's right, BAT. I won't send much in the way of pictures, since they're kind of gross looking, but it was actually really good. Hard to get a lot of meat, but still really good. 

Today for P-day we went as a district to the Parc Rivière bleue, or the Blue River Park. It's a huge endemic reserve, and it's technically in our area. It was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately the shuttle into the main part of the park was closed, so they only way to get in was by walking over 10 km (no thanks) or by mountain bike (which we don't have), so we had to content ourselves with the smaller, drivable portion of the park. It was still beautiful, and it was wonderful to just relax in nature with other missionaries. 

Now with all the fun stuff out of the way, let's talk about missionary work a little. This week has been pretty normal, our investigators continue to progress, especially Nicolas. I'm pretty sure I've talked about him before, if not I'm sure my parents will tell me and I'll talk about him more next week. We also worked this week on trying to find a guy who had apparently been taught by the missionaries around 5 or 6 years ago, and found the missionaries here in December and said he wanted to get baptized. It's been a real struggle to get in touch with him, and we only recently found his house. He doesn't really answer his phone, but we've stopped by his house a couple times to try and see him, but he hasn't been there, but we've been able to talk to his family some. We also had a soirée with a member family,the Fat family, who invited some of their nonmember relatives. We had a great discussion and they asked a lot of great questions, so I think they have good potential to become new investigators. 

Hope you all have had a wonderful Memorial Day! Keep being wonderful people!

Love,

Elder Miner

                                          America week haul. :)

To bat or not to bat?

Yes, I did indeed steal my pose from Destiny. ;)

The district at the entrance to the Blue River Park