I Am Flaco and Negro- Real de Palmas- Week 6

It is crazy that you guys have moved already. I haven't got your package yet, but I bet I will sometime soon. I hope you are liking the new house and everything. Also with regard to Facebook I think that Hermana Sanchez sent me a friend request today, and if you accept it you will be able to see pictures of me that she took and will take. Also we saw my Facebook page, and that is a cool picture of Monterrey. But then she saw the profile picture, and now she is angry with me, because then I was un gordito and now I am flacco y negro, and I'm going to go home, and you won't recognize me. But my secret is that I went to Mexico and eat one meal a day and walk a ton, so there it is. Also, this is the most exciting part Happy Birthday!!! I know I am almost a week early. (As a side note, right now I would like to confirm that your birthday is June 16, Dad's is July 17 or 29 or something, Lily is August 10th, and Maddie is Jan 12. I can't remember anybody else, so extended family and friends can send me an email with their birthday in it, but it will probably push scripture knowledge out of my mind to remember them, but if they are okay with the weight of lost souls on their shoulders, I will do my best- just kidding!) But really, I want to wish you a happy birthday on the 16, and when I write you on the 17th, I will give you some kind of birthday present, maybe I'll write you a poem or something. But for right now, you can just look up that Rudyard Kiplying one that says, "Mother o mine, o mother o mine," because it was fairly weird.
I know you want to hear about investigators, but they are all just keepin on keepin on, and there isn't too much to summarize, and i don't have time to get into all of it, so that will just have to be alright. But we did have this experience with a Hmna Rodriguez this week. She was baptized within the last few years, but she is inactive, and the other day we went over and asked her about some stuff, and she doesn't believe the Book of Mormon or prophets or even personal revelation or that God hears and answers our prayers, because "God is God, and he is far away and doesn't want to talk to dirty sinners like us." And I was like Holy Crap! That is crazy! How do you not know that God loves us! It was literally insane for me! I just didn't understand! So, we told her that the only way she was going to know any of that stuff was by praying about it with faith that she would receive an answer and real intent to act on that answer, and that is all that we could do. Because if anybody has a doubt, the only thing they can do is read the Book of Mormon and pray about it like it says in the introduction. And the thing is that if you do that, you'll know the church is true. And another thing that is pretty cool is that my companion and I both have had times of doubt about the church, but we both did the same thing and got our answers. So it is helpful to say that I've done what I'm asking you to do, and not just, well I know it's true, because everybody told me so when I was little, but you've got to figure out for yourself.
So there is that, and I hope it made a little sense, but I'm a little rushed. I can clarify if I did too bad at getting my point across, just let me know. But I would like to let you all know that I love you, you as my family and anyone else that reads these letters. And I would like to wish my wonderful mother a happy birthday, if it is in fact her birthday this week. And me and my shiny shoes would like to say good bye!
Love, Mason