Carolina Reaper

Hey mom!

My week was great actually. Wednesday was new missionary training so I got the iPad, and met up with my friends from the MTC. Saturday was our trunk or treat too. Three wards were there and all the Beaumont missionaries came. I'll put pictures. Our recent convert got baptized on Friday, Arely. She's real cool. She's ten, Francisco's little sister. He was going to be baptized with her Friday, but conflicts came up so he'll be baptized this Saturday. Well anyway she was at the trunk or treat too.

For the question: People here will say all the time "I came because someone influenced me or I had a great example" which is true, but they really came because they had a change of heart. At first I thought I came out because of my seminary teacher, and Aaron's example but I've realized I really came out because of me. I changed and actually wanted to come. Wanted to be a missionary and serve.

I have some bad news about Christmas and Skype. So with this mission president, Skype-ing is only allowed on Christmas and not Mother's Day. On Mother's Day only a 30-45 minute call is allowed. And my companion told me that now not even the Christmas Skype is even allowed. So I don't think I will be able to. Only a phone call. I'm honestly so upset that I can't Skype and hope that it's not true and I will be able to. But I guess I won't know until later...

So not to end on bad news, two weeks ago I ate a Carolina reaper. It is a pepper. I was told it's the hottest in the world. A ghost pepper is ten times hotter than a habanero, and a Carolina reaper is twice as hot, or hotter depending on the pepper, than a ghost pepper. So dad I've got you beat on the heat scale cuz I know you've had ghost pepper stuff before. But to share the experience, I ate a whole pepper. Swallowed it whole and everything. At first it had no taste and I was fine, but in about thirty seconds my whole head was throbbing like someone was shaking it around as if it were a jar of candy. I started sweating non stop and crying all over. My whole body started to tingle and shake I was bright red. And my body felt like it was on fire thought I was going to die haha... but anyways that's what it's like to eat a Carolina reaper. Terrible experience...but I would do it again hahahaha.

Not much is new with me. No new investigators really. Just enjoying the families we teach. The Keffers are really cool. Hermana Keffer is so funny! Araceli is her sister and Francisco and Arelys mom. They all live together and are so cool! Love going here. Also love Nahum and Dulce. Always a fun time. They are so cool.

I think that's all for this week. Looking forward to the pictures!

Love you guys! Love you mom!