Colin's letter:

Well, this week was a lot less eventful than last week was, but that's okay it was still good. On Tuesday we were at a member’s home for dinner, and after dinner I went through initiation, which was tasting a half-drop of his hot sauce made from concentrated pure Carolina Reaper Pepper extract. Carolina Reapers are super-hot peppers and this member happens to grow them. After 20 minutes of my tongue feeling like it was made of magma, I asked if the burn ever goes away and they said it usually takes an hour, which was fairly accurate. 

 We were teaching a lesson to this less-active member family, and for whatever reason, the dad asked his 13 year-old daughter if she ever cries at school, and she gave the most stereotypical 8th grade girl response ever. She said, "DAD! NO I never cry at school, if you cry at school, your life is pretty much over!!!" We were, I guess, surprised. We didn't realize it was such a sensitive topic. We challenged her last time to read first Nephi in the Book of Mormon because she was bragging about how good she was at reading, and she was right. When we came back two days later she gave us an incredible detailed synopsis of the first 8 chapters of the Book of Mormon, and only got one part wrong. She said she was confused about the part where Lehi threw his tent into the red water. We were confused because it never talks about Lehi throwing his tent into the water, and she though it was kinda dumb that Lehi would do that after travelling so long in the desert. What she read was that Lehi, ". . . pitched" his tent by the borders of the Red Sea!”  I had to explain to her that when you pitch a tent it's not like pitching a baseball, and that the Red Sea is an actual geographic feature in Egypt, not the actual color of the water.

 

I honestly don't remember much else this week, just pray for me, and Elder Talbot, we are close to the end of our rope with our ward mission leader... ha-ha. Well, I hope y'all have a blessed week!

 

--Elder White