I ate temple grapefruit!

FELIZ CUMPLEANOS MI HERMANO!!! Te amo. I love you little brother! I hope you have tons of fun on Friday. And remember me when you give Mom a birthday hug. love love love love love!!!!

So, I just can't wait for you to know this, even though I will write about it in my SD card letter. I ate temple grapefruit! Yeah, I know! They have grapefruit, lemon, orange, and all sorts of other fruit trees growing everywhere. They are almost as common as the palm trees! And they have a bunch on the temple grounds, so we picked one just so I could say that I literally consumed the fruits of the temple! :) There are some pictures coming with that. Also, we got to go through the temple today. It is beautiful! It is one of the really old temples so it has a lot of the intricate details like the Salt Lake temple. Not nearly as much as SL, but beautiful, and much lighter than SL. There are some beautiful murals as well.

Here is an interesting tidbit. We were biking by a park the other day and I became very confused because there was a ton of large puddles in it. I was like "did it rain and I missed it?" Actually to water their lawns, they flood them. Almost all the lawns with grass are lower than street level, little depressions in the ground. And their stepping stones are raised up so they can get to their front doors without soaking their feet. Weird, huh?

Also, our chapel is pink inside. Just a light shade in the front of the chapel and a darker one inside the trim. Where ours is black inside, theirs is a deep fuschia. It made me laugh.

Oh! And yes we had a baptismal service on Saturday. We had five of our investigators get baptized. Four are a family. So, exciting. And we have a friend who is a less-active and has a drinking problem that we are helping with the addiction recovery program. He is doing to well. We just love him to death.

Ella