Remember to keep sending your love to him via email, mail or blog post. Things are starting to settle in and now that the honeymoon phase is over, he will need it more than ever.
Well this week was a good week. A huge improvement over last week. At the beginning my companion and I were a little tense cause we were kind of bugged with each other. I told you a little about it last week, but let’s just say we let it out last Monday. It was dumb because I didn’t understand anything he said because it was in Spanish and he didn’t understand anything that I said because it was in English. It took a while but we finally talked. It’s hard to be with someone 24 hours a day, especially when you don’t know the person and don’t choose to be with them. But you gotta do what you gotta do.
Like I said, this week was a good week. We got 6 dates for baptism last week. :) And things are looking good so we will hopefully have a few more this week. It made me feel really good to know that what I was doing was actually working.
I know I have only been here for four weeks, but I have never been so close to just sitting down and calling it a day. I am sure I will have more times that this, but I know that I can’t stop. Spanish is frustrating, but I am speaking faster and faster and slowly but surely I am starting to understand more. As I write this letter I have to keep deleting things because I write them in Spanish. Haha. It's kind of frustrating when you can’t remember words in English.
This week I studied a lot about faith. You have to have faith, but that doesn’t mean that once you have it everything will come to you. It doesn’t mean that you will all the sudden be blessed. We have to go through a trial of faith. I feel like these first few months...six months...year on my mission will be my trial of faith. But if I stay working and faithful, I will be blessed. That’s the way it works with everything that we do. I need to keep that in mind when things get hard that the Lord is trying to teach me something. If I stay faithful, I will be blessed.
Some funny things about my time here: Right next to me and my companions "apartment" is a taco stand. This taco stand is amazing. It is 5 tacos for 10 pesos. That is like five tacos for 80 cents. El carne (the meat) is probably not what they say it is, but all I have to say is perro es bien rico (dog is delicious). I don’t know if i needed to translate but you’re welcome.
Also my companion and I went into a house this week; the smell reminded me of my neighbor’s house (Georgia and Leo’s house) on a hot summer day after we swam. Haha. I couldn’t help but smile. Later, we were teaching a lesson to Teresa (the girl with the rats in her roof) and as I was listening to the rats, I look over and there is a freaking rooster standing in her kitchen. Just chillin’ there. It started plucking the mat in the kitchen and then starts crowing, I thought to myself “what the heck, where am I?” Haha...weird stuff.
The people here like to talk a lot. You can never get a word in and every appointment takes forever. But I guess it’s better than them not talking to us at all. One thing that has been tough is it’s impossible to give a blessing here. You have to memorize like six names to say for each person. I don’t know why anyone needs 4 last names, but apparently they do. It’s like they are named after every single one of their ancestors dating back to Adam. It’s ridiculous.
The last funny thing is the transportation here. It is a sight to see. I have never seen so many people in such a small place. The other day i literally saw a family of 5 on a motorcycle going like 50 down the street. It’s like their family car. Crazy stuff.
This is a great experience; I see things every day that blow my mind. As I was on the roof hanging my clothes up on a rope to dry, it hit me. I was looking out over the roofs and realized I was looking at a view that I never thought I would see in my life. It is like something you see in a movie or in a magazine, not in real life. I love it. It’s amazing how people treat us. Not super special or anything, but we have grown men with families and jobs and twice our age confessing their hearts to us. Putting all their trust in me. It’s a great feeling to know that people trust me like that and i feel privileged to be able to help them with it. I love the people here.
My feet hurt and I am always tired, but I am doing well and I am healthy. It’s crazy to think that I have already been here a month. Time is flying bye.
Love you all,
Haden
P.S. I’ll try to get you pictures next week!
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