October 16, 2012 Hey I got pooped on by a bird yesterday! We had a zone conference and as I arrived to the bus stop after, I felt something wet hit my head and all over my suit coat... I thought someone threw a water balloon on me, and then I (stupidly) looked up and saw the grey, feathery butt of a pigeon mocking me. I wasn´t even mad... just kind of shocked. That has never happened to me. For a fleeting moment, I DID want to get my vengeance (spelling?) with a rock but I realized that the pigeon probably didn´t poop on me intentionally.... although its timing was remarkable. Anyway, besides that, the zone conference was really good. We talked about a little bit of everything. I love President´s training because he does it so well. He usually picks like 5 or 6 scriptures and expounds on them and how we can apply them in practical ways in the mission to improve and become better missionaries. Then Hermana Avila talked to us for a little while and we heard from the zone leaders, the assistants, and finally from the senior missionaries who tried to convey a spanglish presentation on health and working out in the morning etc... After all was said and done, we got out of there, a little poopier than before and headed back to good ol´ Rodeo del Medio. That night we had a super good lesson with Graciela. She has been investigating for a while and it looks like there is nothing that stands in between her and being baptized on Saturday, after our blood drive. Its kind of cool because she is studying to be a nurse and so she has a calling basically, representing our ward in the blood drive. I am way excited because the last couple converts in this ward are going to be really strong. Last week as we were walking back from the Gutierrez family, I found a small plastic bag of seeds on the ground. I don´t know what they are, but they look like garbonzo beans.. So I imagine that they are just that... I don´t know, but the important thing is that I put them on some cotton and poured some water on them and now they are huge! They grew a ton in just a matter of days! All but one... I ate that one because it wasn´t progressing. Anyway that picture is old. I am doing great. Elder Larsen and I get along really well and we are trying really hard to keep it going in our ward and area. Our minute to win it activity was a blast and we had a couple investigators come, who got along really well with the ward members. We are probably going to have a Halloween activity, so if you have any ideas please send them. They don´t really do halloween here as far as I know... But maybe they do. I have been in pretty poor farming communities for my two mission halloweens and they don´t really celebrate anything, and if they do its usually with incredible ammounts of alcohol and barbecue. Well, I hope you are all doing great. I hope you are enjoying life and keepin it real good. Love ya! Elder Daybell