wow big week

wow it has been a big week and i feel like i have a lot of things to tell you guys about.

nuevo linares is a small town about 30 minutes outside of torreon. it is a lot less developed than durango or torreon and there are dirt roads and horses and junk. This week it has rained a lot and they are not very prepared for it here and there is a lot of flooding and other problems. It rains way more in durango, but here it´s like litterally on disaster alert just because they had a few heavy rains. but it is pretty ugly, a lot of streets are blocked off and everyone had water in their house.

we got a little bit of water in our house two but it´s all good, we just use a broom to sweep it off the porch, we live on the second story but the house isn´t very well made so water gets in throught the sliding glass door.

treasure house story

oh man this is a sweet story that a member told us this week. Her name is celia, she is from a large family, she has nine brothers and sisters, they are 10 in total. She said her family used to be really united but now they hate eachother because of a family dupute that they had. 

Her aunt who used to be her neighbor had a really nice house, it´s made out a adobe and apparently is worth millions of pesos. When her aunt started to get old, her brothers and sisters started to argue about who would inherit the house, because the aunt doesn´t have any children to give it to. The aunt chose to give Celia the house because she was her favorite and treated her really well. But the other kids got really jelous and tried to steal the house from her. Two of her sisters tried to kill their aunt will gas by locking her into her room and putting poisoness gas in through the bottom of the door. Celia woke up and her aunt was screaming for help, they are neighbors so she ran out side and her aunt yelled "they are trying to kill me!" and celia and her son broke down the door of the house and ran in and saved her. 

Several years later her aunt died of natural causes, all the kids gathered to the rancho from all over mexico and had a meeting to see what would be done with the house, one of the sisters arrived from tampico and the first thing she did was grab the casket of her dead aunt and start to shake it and yelled "you´re finnally dead you horrible b***!" "you´re dead and now we are going to take this house for ourselves!" And then there was a huge legal battle about who would get the house and celia more or less won the title of the house, but every one of the brothers and sisters has part of the contract, or something like that. So then, they all started going to the house and have parties and things, but when they would stay the night the ghost of the aunt started to show up and tell them to leave, and tell them that the house belongs to celia, and now all the brothers and sisters are scared to use they house and they don´t go there anymore. and only celia and her family use it.

okay i have a ton more to say but i only had time to share that really cool story, but i´ll hold on to the pictures and other stuff to share next week.

love you guys.

Elder Grilliot