September 9, 2014

Woo woo Guadalupe has been to church five times. I'm super excited and super glad he showed up yesterday, even though he is the master at coming to church 55 minutes late every time but hey we still count it. Our church starts at ten and every Sunday i wear my lucky grandpa law tie and when it is about ten thirty i always say a little prayer and ask heavenly father to send grandma call and grandpa law to go get Guadalupe for me and surely enough he comes. We have his baptism date set for this Saturday so keep him in your prayers and hopefully he can stay strong. A little background on Guadalupe, he is 57 years old and doesn't know how to read. He says lots of the things we teach he doesn't understand great but he loves learning about the word of god. He always tells us, the word of god first, you guys second and me third that's his priorities. He seriously lives in  probably a ten by ten foot cinder block little house with his son and doesn't have very much money. me and my comp and the two brothers were able to pull together 500 pesos this week and we went and bought food and stuff for him so that was really cool and he was really appreciative. His wife left him a couple years ago when he was a drunk but as of right now he has been going like 4 months without drinking.

We got some really sweet news yesterday and this week we might actually have two baptisms yipeeeee. Because one of the hermana's investigators who has a baptism date the same day as Guadalupe moved to our area because in order to get baptized she had to move out of where she was living because she was living with a guy and they aren't married and shes going to live with her mom and her mom lives in our area. So she is ours!!!!!!!! haha I think this is a blessing from god because of all my great patience I've had with the hermanas!!! I'm super excited and hopefully everything works out.

We started teaching Belen this week. The good thing about Belen is that she has already assisted church five times like 5 months ago and she had a baptism this past May but at the last second she backed out. But this week we called her and she said she would like to start the discussions again so that's super good because she obviously feels something and knows this church is true. 

I always like to tell a funny story of a week cause we have lots.

 

Anyways this week we were helping Chalu one of the brothers unload cinder blocks form his truck. Chalu for work just works on cars and has tons of car parts everywhere and random windshields just sitting everywhere. Anyways my companion was in the truck and he would pass the cinder blocks to me and i would walk a little ways and give them to Chalu. Anyways my comp is sometimes a dink and he couldn't understand why he couldn't throw the cinder blocks to me. I kept telling him he was crazy and that it was very hard to catch a cinder block. Anyways he wanted to show me how it was done so we switched spots and I'm like whatever and threw a cinder block to him and of course he didn't catch it and it smashed a windshield haha it was pretty funny

I have almost been on the mission for three months. and I have learned lots:

Number 1 I have learned to sleep on my back which is really cool because my whole life I've been trying but i couldn't.

Number 2 I have learned that Mexico uses km and not miles so the many times I've thought we were going 100 we were actually going 60

Number 3, I have learned to eat like a Latino because they honestly stuff themselves for lunch and eat very little for the rest of the day but I have learned to stuff myself but I'm still starving twenty minutes later

Number 4, I have learned to get very creative with the food I buy, I have pretty much tried making everything possible with the food I buy every week. I make some dang good banana Oreo pancakes. 

Number 5- I have lots of time to think on my 40 minute walks everyday and oftentimes my mind goes off about food and I have found out the three foods I miss the most are milk meat and treats. Honestly the milk here is so gross and is way worse then powdered milk you don't even have to refrigerate it. Meat because all we eat is chicken and treats because honestly treats don't exist here. 

And number 6 I have found out the families that I always get sick after eating with them and I have now figured out to always carry toilet paper with me because sometimes the food just goes strait through my body.

Family I love you guys so much and the church is true. There's no place id rather be then right here in Mexico serving the lord.

Mom and dad, happy anniversary on Thursday and you guys have fun in St George because the best two parents deserve it. Dad keep sending me sports updates cause i love that and i have still yet to receive a dear elder letter ha. Oh and also its Captain's birthday on Saturday so give him a bone. Roo kick but in St George and I'm super glad you beat Uintah and way to show that coach what's up. Bo Dayton Brooke and Hunter, love you tons