Photogenic week

My week can basically be summed up in four or five photos:

Chickens!

This was a fun week, and started with us catching the chickens last Monday. 

Catching chickens

(Tuesday nothing happened, and Wednesday we helped build the Scott's house.)

Bowl of Menudo!

On Thursday, we went over to Max's house and he fed us dinner. He fed us pasta, and we were able to teach him about the last few commandments. He's so cool. (most of the rest of the week revolved around him.) And he agreed to be baptized on Sunday! (Yesterday!)

On Friday we went back with the zone leaders and had his baptismal interview. But not before he fed us again! This time it was a Mexican dish called Menudo. What is shown in the remains of the bowl are the hooves of the pig. Also, there's cow stomach in there, but there wasn't any left in the bowl when I took the picture. It tastes pretty alright, but the experience can be summed up in the words of Elder Green, one of the Zone Leaders: "To make Menudo taste good, you need to put in as much as possible of whatever else is on the table. Lemon juice, onions, whatever. And then, just eat it fast and don't think about how what you're eating could be eating you."

Bowl of Menudo

Octopus!

Just thought I'd throw that in there. We ate octopus and it tastes like shrimp.

Octopus tastes like shrimp.

Elder Robbins!

For those who don't know, the picture at the top is of Lynn G. Robbins, from the presidency of the Seventy. He lives one street over from our house in Utah. He and Elder Oaks came to McAllen and had a conference with the entire mission. It was AWESOME! And I got a shout out for being his home teacher! It was really good, and I learned a lot about receiving revelation, procrastination, and "to be" lists. It was really good.

My friend and neighbor, Elder Lynn G. Robbins

Max!!!!!!!!!!

Not much needs to be said. The picture says it all, pretty much. He's so cool. I'm still euphoric about it. Happened yesterday.

Max got baptized!   Sunday, January 25, 2015.

Basically, the week was amazing! It's the kind of week that you can only have when you're a missionary. If you've got the possibility of going on a mission in your lifetime, you should do it. It's the most gratifying experience in the world. And I think I've said this before, but a mission is a "you had to be there" experience. Do it.

I love you all. Please continue writing, and I will do my best to respond. And thank you for your prayers. They really mean a lot to me. I love hearing about the experiences you're having a lot more than I enjoy writing about mine (keeping a journal is hard! But dont' worry, I'm doing it.)

Have a fantastic week! Con mucho amor,

Elder Chamberlain.