BUENOS TARDES MI FAMILIA!
I am doing super well. Loving the mission despite the dissappointments
we have. Sorry if I have a lot of typos. This keyboard is super viejo.
So I am now 21. Lived to see the age of drinking. Not that I plan to
do it. If I really wanted to do it, I could have started when I got to Mexico
because people start really young. They just go to the store and say they are
buying it for their dad.
Thanks so much for the package. I really like it. Also all your funny Mexican
comments on the balloons. You are all just jealous of the tortillas and beans
we eat. It is pretty great. The food is great...most of the time.
So a few of the highlights in the past few days. Thursday was pretty
great. I have been praying to find a new family to teach and so that’s what I
got! We were dying in the morning. Mornings are always super slow because no
one is in their houses. So we just said that we would go to the food early. an
hour early. We traveled to the pueblo and got there at 2. The food was at 3. We
took a taxi to the pueblo. Here they fit way to many people in the taxis then
there are seats. I was super tired in the 20 minute taxi ride and was out. I
kept bobbing my head trying to stay awake. We got to the pueblo and I think God
felt bad for me so he sent us a miracle. This older lady across the street
called to us. She is a member from the Lerma stake but grew up in this pueblo.
She and her 7 kids are members but none of her siblings are. She was so happy
because she has always wondered when the missionaries would start working the
pueblo. She was just visting for the week but she introduced us to her sister.
Her sister is super good. She is named Guadalupe and she has accepted all. She
came to church yesterday and the member sister went up and shared her
testimony. She was so excited that she had found us. It was such a miracle that
we were there and she found us. I am excited for her. We will see how she
progresses this next week.
Friday we did interchanges with some other elders in El Oro. I worked
here and surprisingly I never really got lost. On Saturday for my birthday I
woke up to find we didn’t have any water again. So I filled up buckets from the
water from my companion’s garrafon. We heated it with an iron and I had a
bucket shower. Gotta love those things... Elder Goodrick and Elder Moreno met
back at the house to change back. The other elders got confetti filled eggs
from some members and exploded them on my head for my birthday. We are still
finding confetti all over the place. haha. We had cake at the food which was
fun. It is a tradition to put your face in the cake here. I don’t really
understand it, but I just do it. We had plans to make cookies with this family
that was suppose to get baptized at this member’s house, but they bailed. At
night we went to visit some other recent converts and they took us to Dominos
to take back to our house. I opened my package at night and that was my
birthday! It was a pretty good day.
Sunday wasn’t super great. the family we had planned to be
baptized was all set to go yesterday. We did everything we could to help them
along their way. They hadn’t been keeping their commitments very well, but said
they wanted to get baptized. We went to wake them up in the morning and we got
to church, but however, after the services they said they didn’t like church at
all. We are pretty sure it was because of a class that they didn’t agree with
for some controversial stuff about homosexuality. At the end of the services,
the father told us they didn’t like church and didn’t want to be baptized. They
ended up leaving without telling us anything. It was a huge downer. They said
they weren’t interested anymore and they left with the whole family following.
We are probably going to leave them for a time as they haven’t been putting in
their efforts as much as they should to gain a testimony. It just was super sad
because we had everything planned. Members were ready, we prepared a number to
sing and had their clothes. Maybe it just wasn’t their time.
So that was the past few days. About my
area real quick. It is really pretty. Also it is pretty big. There are a bunch
of pueblos so we go to the taxi base and take a colectivo to where we need to
go.
Our house is pretty nice and big. Apart from not having water (we do
have it again) sometimes, it is nice and clean and tiled. :) I do miss carpet here though... Elder Goodrich
is a great companion. He is pretty smart and we have a lot in common. He went
to BYU for a semester before his mission. He actually lived in Massachusetts,
but now lives in Springville, Utah. He is a really good teacher and teaches
very clearly. I learn a lot from him.
Have a great week!
-Elder Thomas
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