October 14, 2013
Wow, almost 2 months in. That is insane!! This has gone by
so stinking fast!!
On Saturday we had a family get baptized!! That was a way
cool experience! I didn´t teach the family but my companion did so I got to know them
really well. They are really an amazing
family!
Church on Sunday was great! I didn´t understand very much but it was
the primary program and little kids mumbling scriptures and singing are pretty
universal! As I was looking around, I
saw a mom with her baby. Then five minutes later it was on the other side of
the chapel! As I followed the events that followed, I developed a unique and scientific
name for what was happening, Pass the Baby. All the women wanted to hold the baby
and all of them were willing to give it up to the next woman. Eventually the
baby was returned to the mother, but I just thought it was funny how this baby
was just passed up and down the pews.
I have come to understand that you don´t know how unique you
are until you are the only one like you. It is like the Circus is in town everywhere
I walk!!! All the little kids stare in wonder at me as I walk by. All the
people we pass give me the weirdest looks, and I am pretty sure the only reason
a quarter of the people we stop just stop to sit and get a better look at me. Hopefully
they listen to our message. White skin, light hair, and blue eyes are a serious
rarity in Mexico! My companion says that all the girls just gawk at how
gorgeous a white, blue-eyed person is. I mean, I know I am pretty attractive
already but down here in Mexico they treat me like I am not of this
world!! A little girl in the ward even
asked if she could take my eyes out with a fork so she could keep them!!! If
your into that kind of thing, good for you but my eyes are my eyes, I kind of
need them!!
Our area was split when I got here and all of the
progressing investigators are in the other area so me and my companion spend
most of the day street contacting and walking around. It is SO tough!! The
people that we do get addresses from never seem to answer their door. So every
day seems like a really long day, and the Spanish is coming SO slow! It is hard
to have patience and realize that I actually am progressing. But no one said
this would be easy and I wasn´t expecting it to be so I am just pushing on!
We do a lot of work with the less-active in the area so
right now we are working to reactivate a single mother. Her son is 9 and wants
to get baptized so that is pretty exciting!! We only have 2 investigators so
far. They are an older couple who seem really interested in religion so
hopefully we can continue to meet with them. We have only had one lesson so
hopefully they let us come back!!
We had one lesson with this guy who was so drunk he could
barely stand. I mean this guy was WASTED! I don´t know which missionaries
referred him to us but I wonder what they were thinking when they did! He had
beer bottles EVERYWHERE! And not the U.S. size beer bottles either. Here in
Mexico, they take their liquid very seriously. All of the soda and water are 3 liters.
So, like soda, their beer bottles are at least 25-30% bigger. He opened 2 bottles in
the time we were there!!! He was so drunk that he didn´t even realized that his
first beer wasn´t even empty. That was pretty funny because my companion, a Mexican,
could barely understand him and I was just sitting there trying not to laugh.
Another new experience is teaching my companion. He has only
been a member for a year and a half so I do a lot of explaining the doctrine.
Right now he is reading in 2 Nephi where Jacob is quoting Isaiah. I spent
almost all of a companionship study just trying to explain a couple chapters. There
are parts where I have no idea what is going on so I´m just like ´´Sorry, you´re
asking the wrong Elder!´´
Every day is something new and something crazy! It is always
hot and always exhausting but there are people out there who are prepared to receive
this gospel, we just have to find them and talk to them on the streets!!
Thanks for all of your support and prayers!! Hasta próxima
semana!!! (Until next week)
This is our bedroom, small and comfy. We keep the air on all day so I sleep like a baby in my sleeping bag at night.
This is my companion and his first companion/trainer.
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