¡Más servicio!

We had two more service projects this week. We helped Luis (the man we helped the last two weeks and who was baptized last week) clean his mom's house. We also helped a less active member clean up his yard as well. We have started referring to these service projects as jungles clean up. Our best weapons to do the cleaning is still a machete and a rake but we have had access to a weed eater or two for the projects this week which makes things much smother and easier. 

Luis's moms yard before. We still have a lot of work to do before it's all clean. 

Elder Blackham mentioned in his phone call home this week that it is HOT in Texas right now.  Over 100 degrees everyday with high humidity.  He is in a bike area right now and spending a lot of time out in the heat on his bike.  The Alice missionaries go serve at the local food pantry every week.  They get to serve the community and make contacts with a lot of people there and they often get to take some food home, which is helpful since they aren't fed by members a lot in this small branch.  Although the man who drives the ice cream truck (not a member) often gives them ice cream.  Elder Blackham is enjoying learning from the new mission president and his wife, Pres. and Sis. Ocampo.  Sis. Ocampo does a big part of the teaching at their training meetings.  Even though Elder Blackham is in a mostly English speaking area right now he's keeping up on his Spanish.  The new mission president is doing all of their training in Spanish since they are the only entirely Spanish speaking mission in the United States.  Elder Blackham was excited to hear that Raoul who they were teaching but moved to San Antonio has continued to be taught by the missionaries there and set a baptismal date.  He has found several new people this week who are interested in learning more about the gospel including a family that he is excited to continue teaching.