It's been rough, but we're alive

This is going to be a little quick, I don´t have a lot of time because I still need to make the tithing deposit in the bank before it closes. Oh the stress of being in charge.

I love how our family always has strange animals who make their home in ours. I hope you named that racoon like we did "Dinner" back at Grandma and Grandpa´s place. =P

Sounds like you guys are getting everything ready for the new school year. I won´t lie, it sounds crazy that school is about to start again. When I got to San Vito you guys were just getting out of school. No time has passed at all and you´re all getting ready to go back. What´s up with that???

This last week was tough, but we pulled through. This is the last week of the change, so Elder Centeno and I sat down last night after a really rough day and began to plan out every individual lesson with members we have scheduled for the week. My thinking is based off what the APs touched on in zone conference. 20 to 30% of those that members find get baptized, while only 1 to 2% of who we find enter the waters of baptism. If that´s the case, we need to be working through the members more than anything. But to do that we need to be visiting them and sharing lessons directed to strengthing their testimonies and understanding of the gospel. We´ve already started along that way, but we´ve kicked it up a notch due to our poorly depressing let-downs we had to experience over the week.

This upcoming Sunday, August 15th, is Mother´s Day here in Costa Rica. We´re planning a small dinner and activity for the mothers of branch, it should be pretty fun. I´m learning more about how to manage the funds of the branch, although I never imagined I´d be doing this kind of stuff.

I´ve been suffering from odd illnesses throughout these last few weeks, but I´m afraid it could all be from the same cause. Last Sunday I almost fainted while teaching Priesthood. I started seing stars, my hearing became an echo, I lost feeling in my limbs, the whole 9 yards. I felt better about an hour later, after having ended church a half hour early, but throughout the rest of the week I´ve just felt really weak at weird times. Every afternoon my head has just been killing me (like it is now). I´ve been taking some cold meds, hoping they´ll do the job, but so far nothing´s kicked this bug from my system. I hoping it´s nothing, but if I continue this way or somehow get worse, I´ll need to call the Hermana Gálvez.

I´m fine with visiting Derek, Ashley, Grandma and Grandpa October 8th. I´m itching for a nice road tirp, and to be the one driving (from Boise to Pocatello, verdad, no me gusta a manejar por las montañas mucho). It´s so weird to be making plans like these. This morning on the bus to Ciudad Neilly (I´m in Neilly right now), I realized I don´t even feel like I´m not in my native country. Everything´s so normal to me here, I don´t know how it´s gonna be when I get home. Mom, Dad, just so you two know, I might only be speaking to you in spanish for a while on my return. I don´t like speaking in english for too long, I prefer speaking in spanish. It´s just easier for me, I have to think to much to use english.

Alright, I gotta get going. I love you all and I hope you have a great week. Take care, have fun, enjoy these last couple of days together before Ashley takes off for BSU, and be safe on the trip down. I can´t wait to hear from you all next week. Ciao!

Tu Hijo,
Elder Nunie

P.S.- Hey Ash, take care and be safe in Boise. I´ll be seeing you ASAP when I get home. And just so you don´t forget, buy plenty of shampoo before your birthday. Egg can be messy. =D Love ya Sis!

P.P.S.- Tell the Carton´s I miss them and give Tylan and big hug for me. =P I can´t believe he´s coming home. That´s just too much to take.