Monday, November 19, 2012

As for me, you want to know what i eat. Well where i am is very far away, from the capital its about 3 hours in a bus so there isn't much here. To eat we have two really big restaurants that sell one thing...chicken! That's all we eat here, chicken, rice and beans. I love it but it does get a little old after a while. There is Taco Bell in the capital, as well as Wal-Mart, Price-Mart (like Costco but a little smaller, we cant enter though) McDonald's, KFC, Little Cesars, Burger King and things like that. I haven't been in the city for almost a year so i don't remember the taste of that stuff ha I don't want to eat out because i cant bring myself to spend money We had a good week, we saw some miracles! We have been having a really tough time on Sundays with members attending church so me and my companion felt that we needed to work more with the members and so that's what we did this last week and it worked! Two weeks ago we had an assistance of 88 in sacrament meeting and this week we had an assistance of 122!! It was amazing to see that every person that we visited came to church, even the ones that told us that they wouldn't go, went! It was really cool to stand in the doorway and welcome all of the members that came and see how they felt the spirit during the sacrament meeting. I had a funny experience with my Bishop yesterday when we were visiting some less active members. Somehow he knew that i don't like to spend money on buses, it gets expensive, so i ask for rides. Well he said Elder lets see how well you can ask for a ride and put your theory to the test and see if you can get a ride for us back to the house. Well the first person that drove by i asked for a ride and they gave us one, not only did they give us one but they went out of their way for us and dropped us off at his doorstep. After i jokingly said, Bishop you didn't have faith in me and he said he didn't for that purpose, it was a funny experience. Other than that everything went well for us and I'm doing well.

Monday, November 5, 2012


Well for me this last week was a really interesting week. Saturday morning we got a call from the mission president saying that my companion had changes and that i wasn't going to have a companion so i was being put in a trio until they find me another companion. So i went to another area Saturday, Sunday and today. This morning i got another call saying that i was going to be changed to another area to help some missionaries that are having a lot of problems not working and not obeying the mission rules, this will be interesting. I'm a very relaxed person and don't rat people out but I'm nervous about that because i know they aren't doing what they should but i don't want to be the rule breaker. Mom, its kind of like you when you had to break up two people kissing in their car at a church dance....i bet you didn't feel good but you had to do it. This next week will be interesting but hopefully i get my new companion in these next couple of days. Oh i also wont be getting a real missionary, it will be a mini-missionary that wont be Set apart, interesting. Some interesting facts that we found out this week. Our mission is getting 80 new missionaries in these next couple of months so a lot will be required of us in these next couple of months but we will see. Its kind of cool being the older missionaries in the mission but its really weird because the younger ones really look up to us, its cool. The mission president will be splitting almost every area in 2 to be able to give areas to all the new missionaries.
It is really hot here still, we passed the rainy season of no rain in my area so ya its really hot. The buses don't have AC, only the super special ones but those cost a lot...we go on them when we can because they only have the big routes not the little ones.My Spanish is good, i still have a lot to learn but i can say whatever i want and i understand everything so its just the little things now...it is tough to learn. Ya i wouldn't want to go to a college in Ohio but if i had to i wouldn't mind it. I'm just looking at all my options right now so we will see whats up in December. I don't want to wait until i have 24 years of age to get married, that's too long mother! Being with Dev would be really cool, we have been talking about it a lot.(Devan is his bestfriend from Texas, he’s serving in Hawaii right now).
Well i think that's about it for me this week so i hope you have a good week and all goes well.