This is the 116th letter. Unfortunately for you, Sarah wanted to read the manuscript. I told her that only the faithful could. I refused twice. But she insisted. And so on the third attempt, I gave them to her, and now, they are lost. I am in despair and fear I have lost my soul.
Adieu!
John
Well, it's been a week. Good one at that.
The last two Mondays, and tomorrow's Monday, we have had FHE with our favorite teenager girls of the Branch. They have been quite fun. We started a series of lessons. We introduced the For the Strength manual to them, and the last two mondays, we have gone over a standard in the book. The first was Sabbath Day Observance and the second was Dress and Appearance. Both lessons were simply grand and full of the spirit. I love teenagers to death.
In fact, I found out this week that I adore children, and because I respect them, they love me. Specifically on Friday, we had our branch's Mother's day activity. I do my best to level myself with them. I met a family of one of our ward member's grandchildren from La Familia Reyna. I specifically made friends with a 7 year old red headed girl in their family named Mckenna. She was the cutest thing and very personable. By the end, she gave me lots of hugs and we took some selfies with their family. I told the parents to invite me to her baptism. I hope they do. In the same family, I met a girl named Jacqueline. It was hard for me to remember her name, so we joked about that a lot. She was aloof from me a lot, but we made friends quite easily.
Also, one of our favorite families with cousins and kids is the Perez family. The oldest girl, Ellena of 11 years, was upset about one of her cousins telling a boy that she liked that very thing. Sarah noticed her crying and did her best to comfort her. She distinctly got the impression to bring Ellena to me. I hugged her, told her that the ball is in his court now. I told her about my first crush, which you will remember was Leslie Stapel. And I did my darndest to help her, and help her I did. I sat at another temple with her and we conversed.
At this party we sang a song to the mothers, one called Gema, and one that has stuck with me called Te Amo Mama. We had some technical difficulties with the first song because the sound quality from a YouTube video was really bad. We chose that specific one because it was a Karaoke version of it. But, after 3 minutes of scrambling, we did it.
A lot of other things happened this week. I will briefly mention stuff.
-One of our children got lost during my lunch, and no one noticed until I came back and did the head count and was the only one to realize. She was super far far away from our actual classroom.
-Another knocked down a glass fish bowl with water and fish in it.
-etc. etc.
-We had the Santos over for dinner tonight.
-I was able to provide Heidi Greathouse with a blessing tonight, as well as Sarah.
We are making plans to come either Thursday night if you come home Friday morning, or Friday morning if you come home in the afternoon. We will be taking the bus home, if you will drive us there. I haven't seen your itinerary.
I love you so much. I hope you are great, and E. Seeley, if he is still your companion.
Goodnight brother,
John
