Taking life by a yard may be hard, but by an inch it's a sinch

Hello, hello, hello, I'm reviewing my week chronologically to know what to share. First off, I now have a Mexican soccer jersey! Vivan las Chivas! It was a dream come true. My birthday was wonderful as well. Thank you again for cards and letters. I'll write you each back in the coming weeks. For lunch we went to Del Taco and the cashier (he and I have become friends) gave me a birthday churro on the house. The family that fed us Tuesday night made a birthday cake with candles and had a candy gift for me. It added even more flame and sweetness to the day. Wednesday was transfer meeting. Even though none of us were leaving, President asked us to be in attendance. It turned out to be a strong source of spiritual strength and unity. My visa-waiting companion was asked to say a few words because he is leaving in 2 weeks, and he called me out on my 6:30am wake-up smile. He isn't sure he wants to leave for Mexico just yet because he loves it here too much, but he knows God will place him where he belongs. Wednesday night we taught a couple who are friends of our recent convert and the husband is a hoot. In Spanish, Sunday is "domingo" and sleep is "dormir". Well the husband said that to him Sunday is "dormingo". Then later his wife was offering a prayer over some food and she said, "Oh Lord, thank you for this food." The husband interrupted and said, "You're welcome." We fought to keep from laughing. There is an investigator we have that can't get baptized right now because she can never get work off, it's a terrible work situation. We visited her this week and another lady was there with her whom we had yet to meet. It turns out that she is our investigator's former LDS neighbor who visits regularly. It was so relieving! In ways we felt all alone with this situation - in continuing to spiritually feed our investigator as we wait for the miracle. When we realized that there is someone else who cares for this lady it gave us more energy and excitement to maintain faith. Don't forget that often we're not the only ones working to better the lives of others. They have family and friends and always a Father who is caring for them. He has a plan. Friday we had a mission-wide Book of Mormon readathon. It was spiritual, unifying, uplifting, faith-instilling, and too quick. We were asked to look for a few things and one thing that amazed me was the priority Nephi gave to doing the Lord's will. They were always talking about the Savior and motivated to please Him. A good lesson was how Nephi never complained, he was faithful in everything. Such a man. There is a lot for me to learn from him. This weekend was great, and we've seen real progress with a particular investigator from Puerto Rico. She had a dream of wearing baptismal clothes and it's been weighing on her mind for a couple weeks. An absolute miracle!!! She wants to be baptized this month. We're not without gratitude nor excitement :) We are good to go on Skype next Sunday. Due to your church times and ours, as well as the time difference, it seems that the best time to Skype will be around 4:30pm AZ time, which is 7:30pm FL time (we don't do Daylight Saving). I hope that works well. Send me a letter if it doesn't and I can call at 2pm FL time, but not by Skype. If there's no letter I'll plan on calling you around 7:30pm to ask for your Skype info then we'll get going with face time. If you want to do a sibling conference call with Skype that's fine, but I believe it costs some money. Otherwise I'd at least like to give each sibling a phone call. I'll leave that for you all to arrange, sorry. Tyler, congrats on graduation! You must feel pretty accomplished, and you are! Same to you Carrie, way to go! I love you all and "I cannot say the smallest part which I feel" (Alma 26:16). Have a great week, all! Elder Joshua Gathro