Cockroach War

Hey Mom and Dad,

Well things here are going great. Oh one fun thing I forgot to mention last week was about our house. I don´t know if I told you but one of the perks is that there is HOT WATER!!!! Ok well just our shower has a little coffee pot shaped attachment that heats the water as it comes out. Oh man it feels so nice. Like I´m back in the states :P lol But one of the down sides are the cockroaches. Did you know cockroaches come in all different sizes? Like some as small as ants and others bigger than your thumb. I think they’re worst of all just because they´re so fast it´s hard to kill them. But yeah we´ve got a ton. In fact we are in a current state of war against them. After several failed attempts at peaceful negotiations in the first week we decided enough was enough and officially declared war. Starting with the battle of the gas tank where we discovered an undercover bunker underneath. We realized it must have been a clever scheme by the cockroaches to lure us into making a deadly mistake, because Elder Rojas first thought was to take out a bottle of spray axe, turn it into a flame thrower and burn them. Good thing Elder Vinueza smartly reminded him that it was a tank of gas, thus that idea may not turn out so good. The next being the fight over the refrigerator. That is an ugly battle, with many casualties on both sides. Including many spoiled eggs and ruined goodies. Me and Elder Smith ran over to the supermarket for more ammunition, we opted for the Dragon insect killer with a pump spray. We thought it´d be more effective, kind of like the Gatling gun from WW2 :P After we cleaned everything out we sprayed about everything and after realizing the air was thick of insecticide we made a momentary retreat and left for the day to wait out the cockroaches. After that first day it appears we´ve wiped out the greater part of the army. But we´re afraid they´ve just withdrawn and are planning a counterattack in the study room of Elder Rojas and Smith. Time will tell, lol. We´ve told Hermana Gamboa and she gave us permission to look for another house and we´ve already found one. So we may end up simply making a strategic retreat and leaving the war to the next occupant, lol. But yeah it´s fun :)

Alright well looks like I´m out of time so I´d better go. Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome

PS- Oh and yeah man I can barely believe I´m over halfway! It´s kind of scary looking back at how fast the first year went by because I know the second will go by even faster! I didn´t do anything too special, lol. In fact the day the assistants slept over because we had interviews with the President the next day, so yeah the day after though we made tacos because Elder Rojas is a professional chef from Mexico so that was sweet :)