Yet another great week has passed here in Price. It's starting to get pretty cold, but being from Northern IL, it's manageable. There are little skiffs of snow here and there...they keep forecasting big storms, but the mountain range just to the west fools everyone. They say that the weather in Price can't be predicted. They can predict just north and just south of Price, but it's too crazy here. Typical Utah winters, I think.
We had a great thanksgiving. We were invited to 4 different places, but didn't have enough time to go to all of them. We settled with 3. And just about exploded because of the amount of food they were trying to give us. The first 2 places were buffet style, so we took small amounts and figured the third would be buffet too. Nope. They loaded our plates up to a mountain....
Turkey in spanish is Guajolote (in Mexico) or Pavo (everywhere else & Mexico too).
We were allowed to spend 2 hours at each member's house, but no more than 2 hours. We went to President Perez's house ( our branch president in Price) and ate and jammed with some music. He's a musician bigtime. His band/group performed several times in the Tabernacle & other places. He plays piano, flutes, guitar, banjo, and lots of other wind & string instruments & percussion instruments from around the world. He's really really cool & i'm grateful to know him.
We were discussing calls home and it turns out that here in the US, Mother's day is the second sunday in May. In Spain, it's the first sunday in May. In Mexico, it's May 10th. So I don't really know when in May I will be calling home, whether it be Mexico's or the US's mother's day. I'll have to wait and see and ask. Luckily Christmas is the same here & in Mexico, and I will be able to call then.
The work has been good but slow. With the holiday, many people were out of town & forgot to cancel our appts with them, so we spent a lot of time driving around and knocking on doors of empty houses.
I've been meeting a few people that have lived in Mexico City for a little while. They always tell me that I will love the food & especially the fruit there. It's all so rich in flavor and diversity. I can't wait for it. I think i can already taste some of it...
Anyhow, all is going well. I love and miss all of you!
Stay close to the Lord!
Elder Bunker
