These were taken on August 25, 2008. The first shows you that we really do have cars and highways in Mexico. The highways are also very liberally sprinkled with litter. That anti-litter campaign has not yet caught in this nation. We were leaving the airport with a vanload of new missionaries. The second is of Elder Sinai Gil Jimenez. Elder Gil came into the mission that morning from Oaxaca, Oaxaca. He talks a million miles an hour and has a very unique accent. When in training, I told his generation that I was looking for the first missionary who had the faith and drive to baptize and confirm 100 true converts. They all sat and looked at me; all of them did that except Elder Gil. His hand shot up like a skyrocket. With a year under his belt he is on track. I have asked him his secret. "The missionary who believes he can, does." Good answer for all phases of life. The foto is of him in the mission home kitchen scrubbing a scrambled egg pan. His mom told him to wash dishes for the mission president's wife every time he got the chance. This was a good start. And his shirt tail is often out. That is just the way he is--100% action.