(Entering Wet)
This week was quite an adventure I'm not going to lie. You know all the crazy things that happened at the beginning of my mission? (well... i am still in the beginning of my mission.) For a while nothing really cool happened and i couldn't really speak spanish? (lets be honest. i still cant speak spanish but... that's not what i want to focus on) so this week was full of running away from drunk angry people who wanted to kill us (i don't know if that is true but the running at us and speaking very sternly crude english words that i would rather not repeat), taking sick pictures where they just recently found 3 decapitated bodies, two of our missionaries got assaulted and robbed, satan bluntly working against us, we currently have 3 progressing investigators and a bunch of members who want success and joy in the church while they just sit on their couches :D:D
ok so i guess i will just start out with the running away from angry drunk men and another companionship getting robbed. So it was the night of 3 kings (the night of the arrival of the 3 kings to see the Christ Child and the biggest party I have seen them celebrate since coming here, and boy can these people party- even bigger than my mom celebrates 3 Kings) We were going to our last appointment and things were pretty good. we had cranked out 8 lessons that day (a new mission record for me) and we were headed to our last appointment that we had for that day. but as me and my comp were walking to their house through some really sketchy streets (I'm pretty sure there are dead bodies buried there or something but.... who knows.) hahah but yeah:D we were just walking and talking about how its really funny how a lot of people here know a lot of crude words and just love to YELL THEM AT US (its like we are suppose to understand them or something) but as we are just exiting these sketchy streets a man just started to come at us. I just didn't have a very good feeling about this man with the anger on his face (good thing I get these feeling) and thats when he started yelling very very crude words at us and boy he did know english pretty well. And thats when i recognized his face and his voice. IT WAS THE MAN WHO GRABBED ME IN THE STREET MARKET! So i knew that this man would not be hesitating to grab and probably destroy us. So that's when we decided to just pick up the pace a little bit. and ya know usually people just give up when they know that they will have to walk pretty fast in order to catch up to us. but... this moment with this man was a very different experience. when we picked up our pace he decided to double his and ya know just started yelling the usual "get back to where you belong americans, you don't belong here, yeah that's right just walk away" That was a generalized sum of the sentences that he used and taking out all the really really crude words. but he continued to chase us for about 5 minutes (he was a very very determined that little fella) but ya know nothing that two out of shape missionaries couldn't run for like 5 minutes and finally lose him this time thank goodness. after that little incident we arrived at the house where we were going to teach our ninth lesson. and right when we were about to start to teach my comp gets a call telling us that one of the pair of comps just got assaulted and robbed and thats all we were told. well.. along with that they were unharmed. So we had to excuse ourselves and take the backroads of where we could run over to the house of the elders and see if they needed anything (which honestly i don't know if that was the smartest thing that we could have done. cuz weren't the other elders just robbed in the same area? this sure isn't Highland thats for sure. and so why were we walking in the same area? i don't know... but ya know. life rolls on in Mexico. :D so we arrived at their house and all was good because they didn't stab them or shoot them, so that's a relief. so we just asked them to tell the story to us.
They were just walking down the road after they have just given a discussion. and this car went flyin by them. and right as they passed them they quickly swung back around and started to come right at them. one of the elders has had a little more time in the mission and has heard how people do drive by robberies, so he screamed at his companion to run and he took off (hahaha it's like the story of the bear. it doesn't matter if you can out run the bear just if you can out run your friend:D:D:D and thats exactly what happened:D:D:D:D) The newer elder didn't really realize the importance of running as fast as he could so the people caught him before he could get very far and threatened him with a knife at his side and then took everything he had, all the way down to his gafete (missionary badge.) so after the muggers took off his comp came back to see if he was ok (what a great comp right? :D) I'm not going to lie, i would probably do the same thing. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST BABY! Right? hahah yeah not too cool, but it is my mission.
hahah and now i guess i will just type a little something about the river with the bodies in it:D:D: hahahah it's not that exciting but ya know.. just not something that you hear every day in the states.... or.... ever. .:D So me and my comp were just working away (like usual) and we had just heard from a member that the authorities had just found 3 decapitated dead bodies in the black river not too long ago. so... ya know... the timing could not have been better because just the other day we had received a reference that we were going to go visit, and you won't be able to guess where this person lives?!?!? yupp!! you guessed it!! RIGHT NEXT TO THE BLACK RIVER!!! :D:D so clearly after i have just received an email from someone telling me that i have been cracka slackin in my photo of the week, i decided that a sick photo would be a missionary doing a cannon ball into the black river, right? Hahah not. that was just a joke but it was quite the coincidence that right when we get this reference we hear about the 3 decapitated bodies:D:D:D and yeah... there will be a photo of the week this week::D:D:D And it will be in on the banks of the Black River where they found the bodies. I am amazed I would even go because movies like this freaked me out but now I live them and I am jumping in front of them.
and now i would just like to write a quick something about how satan is literally working so bluntly against us. So we are teaching an hermana que se llama Patricia. and she has this small store and when we went to go visit her for the first time we learned that she does not get very much business and is really struggling. so clearly we thought that this was the perfect moment for us to go and help this lady learn about the gospel, right? yeah that's what i was thinking as well. so the first lesson that we teach she had told us that no one has come in today so far, and so we start to teach and teach and right when we get to a good powerful part in the lesson someone just happened to walk in. so she got all distracted and had to go sell some things. and then when she came back we only got like another 5 minutes of teaching and then a whole line of people came. yeah you heard me. A LINE! man so we just finished up what we had and had to take off because of our other appointments. so then we came back the next time and she told us that it was strange that so many people had come that last time, because she never has that many people come in at once. so yeah... maybe it was a coincidence. not. because we started to teach again this time and you know what happened? yeah the same thing. person after person after person. and it wasn't that people just came, they always came when we were in the groove and the spirit was really strong. so this was no coincidence let me tell ya. but we were not going to be defeated by satan, so we took the hour and a half to battle this out and still teach to her needs and we did get through the lesson and she loved it. well... ya know... i guess you just got to deal with different battles with different investigators.:D:D:D hahah yeah that's about how satan is just blatantly working agains us.
haha so... thats really all i have to write about this week. but i guess i will just quickly explain the pictures that i have attached here:D:D Hahaha cuz they are pretty funny:D:D:D so the one with the pan on top of the silver thing is when me and my comp just got back and i decided that i was going to go cook a pot of rice. so clearly i started to cook that. but here is the funny thing, so as you can see that we have two cooking surfaces there but.... clearly only one of them works, bienvenido al barrio (welcome to the slums. i think that's what that spanish means... but... who knows...) so being two missionaries who want rice and tortillas what do we do? clearly we turn up the heat on the rice and put the pan on top and start to cook the tortillas!!!! yeah... ya know the usual missionary creativity survival skills you get when you are in the slums:D:D
and the other picture that i have here is one of me and my comp behind a table of candies. so yet again this story starts with me and my comp walking in the street. so we are walking to our appointment and we pass Leticia, our recent convert. as we pass her, we just decided to stop and see how life is going right now for her. and after our small relief society session, we asked her if there was anything that we could do for her. usually she just tells us no, but this time she told us yes.:D:D she just asked us if we could take control of her candy stand that she runs for a few minutes while she swings by her house to grab something. so ya know, we just decided to take some photos of this moment:D:D Cuz how many times are you able to man a candy stand in mexico? Yeah.. never. :D
this is the last week with my companion from Brigham city. i have come to love him for his great work ethic. he is the bomb when is comes to comps.:D:D it has been the break needed from the last. i didn't write last week. it is hard when you feel you are not liked and then when something is promised to you for weeks and then it is taken from you last minute and it was something you really wanted to do. feeling picked on wasn't one of the things i was expecting. there have been people in the scriptures who have been picked on more than me so why i felt bad i don't know, just not use to it i guess. love the american comps! :D:D thanks for your prayers i have needed them and feel them.:D
I bet mom is glad my mexi hair cut is growing out:D:D
well.... yeah... that's my week... not too much but just enough. oda le pues... hasta luego muchachos y cuidence mucho eh? nos vemos en un ratito... o... pues.. posible.
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