Chilchinbeto and the Monsoon!‏

Oh my lanta this week was crazy!

I went on exchanges to Chilchinbeto during the first part of the week, Monday through Thursday morning. It's probably the deepest rez area in our district. I didn't have my camera with me, but the meeting house there is a little trailer with metal bars over the windows and door. It's fantastic :) And the RV they live in makes Monument Valleys' seem big! There's a fire pit outside that they use to cook with, because they don't have much they can do with the little stove inside. Anywho, so we got to teach some really great people on Tuesday--we walked 8 miles on this dirt road to see this fantastic family; the husband is a member, and the wife loves the gospel :) So yeah, Tuesday was great. Wednesday... We were driving to Quartertown, when it starts monsoon-downpouring! Rain and hail everywhere. We turned onto a dirt (read: mud, with rivers on either side formed from the rain) road, and start driving down it, when a truck coming our way starts fishtailing all over the place! Elder Hunter tries to pull over to the side of the road so we don't get hit when the truck slides over into the wash! So now the truck was sideways, mud water rushing halfways up my door annnnd we're as stuck as you can be. And it's downpouring. a lot. So then water comes in through the door, but that's alright because it wasn't too deep :) The dirt road turned into a river too. We climbed out of the truck and got to the highest point in the back, then tried to figure out what to do. I'm just about out of time today, so I'll spare the details, but 8 hours, a pair of shoes, and ridiculously muddy pair of clothes later, we ended up getting the truck out and made some new friends! The rest of the week wasn't half as exciting, but we got to teach some really great people :)

Ok, I'm out of time. 

Have an awesome week everyone! 

Elder Kraus

Oh and the package from home got here! :) So here's what the study place looks like now!

Nizhoni damoo (Beautiful Week)‏

Ya'at'eeh Everyone! 

        This week was great! The weekend of the fourth, we were able to get Heston and Isaiah interviewed for baptism, so this whole week we've been looking forward to that :) There was a get to know you Zone Conference with President Adams on Tuesday, which was really great :) I'm super pumped to be working more with President and Sister Adams! After Zone Conference, I went on exhanges to Monument Valley, with the brand new Elder, Elder Hill. He's about 6'5". (I'm 5'6", so it was a great little contrast). It was super weird not being the least experienced for once. We got to teach a couple of really great people, chop quite a bit of chizh (firewood), siphon water into tanks (there are quite a few people in the deeper rez that have no running water; they get friends of theirs to load it up into a tank in the back of their truck, then siphon that out of the truck into 50 gallon barrels for the week), and train each other during comp study :) They live in a little RV outside of the church that makes our place seem HUGE! Wednesday, we get a call from Kayenta--the tire went completely flat! (we were still using the spare, while waiting to get the first one replaced), so we had to end the exchange early and drive back to use Monument Valley's spare.

            Thursday, we went down to Tuba City to get both fixed and replaced, then went back and taught a couple of great people :) Oh! Thursday, that night, for some reason, I felt like we realllly needed to go to Burger King. Super weird right? So we follow the prompting, and as we're ordering, the manager comes up to us and is like, here's my address, I'm free on Sundays and Mondays, come and teach me. We talked with him more on Sunday, and I've never met someone out here so prepared for the Gospel! So we're super pumped to get to talk with him more this coming weekend :) 

         OH! Heston and Isaiah got baptized Saturday! I ended up writing the program for them, coordinating everything, etc.. It was super stressful, but it ended up going super well! The spirit they felt as they made promises with God was incredible :) There's no greater work than this, getting to see people change their lives for the better as they come unto Christ.

Ok, out of time this week....

Hagonet!   Elder Kraus