The One With Foster Kids and a Baptism

This week I got an actual e-mail from Elder Brendan. And some photos with his face in them! I also made a new Facebook friend. The farm that the Elders and Sisters go to on p-days is called "Foster Farms." I am now friends with Klisse Foster, the sweet member who puts up with all of the animals, both human and otherwise. My heart is always so full when I see other mamas feeding and loving my boys. This is not Klisse's first rodeo. She writes a newsletter about what is happening on the farm, and takes pictures of the missionaries- she refers to them all as her "Foster Kids." I love that. I hit the missionary mom jackpot with Klisse! She spoils them quite thoroughly with made-from-scratch home cooking. We should've sent Brendan with elastic-waisted maternity pants.
She sent me this last week:

"Wadley is playing with an erector set and when Darrington wanted to play, he got his hands slapped, so Darrington got the K'nex set with the motors."

That sounds about right.
Here is Elder Brendan's e-mail this week:

hey this week has been really good!! conference was pretty good we did have a baptism this week her name is XXXX she is super cool! i had to give the talk it was pretty bad also we sung amazing grace so that was fun but yeah i don't really know this week has been a lot of prep for the baptism oh i went to the temple this week it was really cool

Indianapolis, Indiana LDS Temple

Our ward mission leader took us and hes really funny we were in the telestial room which is super pretty just btw and he leans over to me and in the loudest whisper ever he says " guess how many geese are on the wall" everyone turned and looked at us it was really funny but idk what else to talk about so i have some pics

Elder Eschler, XXXX and her husband, Elder Wadley

Eschler and i were tracting and no one had answered so he sat down and gave up haha and the shriners circus is in town so they had elephants but nothing else was set up at the time so literally all we saw were these two random elephants just chillen in this field it was really funny

the skull i got from an investigator he made it while he was in prison the circle thing thats the gate doors to the temple- it is Indiana's state flower its super sick

A couple of e-mails ago Elder Brendan talked about some investigator asking his companion to "unhook his echo." I forgot to ask him what in the crap that meant, and I remembered this time so here was that riveting and really strange conversation:

What was the deal with the guy that wanted Eschler to turn off his echo?

oh thats XXXXX hes an investigator he is really interesting but eschler said he couldnt turn it off so XXXX said he'd ask his pastor haha but hes just a typical person in Indiana: crazy

 What is an echo?

an echo? when you yell and you can hear your voice back at you

What the heck? He wanted him to unhook his echo? How did he want him to do that?

mom i dont know the really question should be how did you not know what an echo was

I thought it was maybe a car thing like a governor

its cool dont worry about it