Ha ha ha, no we are fine on money. I should’ve explained since my church credit
card was lost with my wallet, all my funds are transferred over to my
companion, so technically we just share the same card. Soon my card from the church will arrive and
I`ll have my own money supply. We
receive 1700 pesos every month, about 700 goes to taxis, so we have 1000 to buy
our food on to live every month. This is
more or less about 2 dollars a day.
With this allotment our meals consist of more or less bread, ham, eggs,
and ramen, it’s great ha ha. We can`t
really cook anything, because we can`t afford to, but it`s alright because for
lunch everyday we eat at members houses.
I`ve gotten to the point where that`s the only meal I really actually
need. For breakfast I`ll eat a ham
sandwich or eggs, and for dinner a pack of ramen. We don`t get very hungry for those two meals
since we eat a big lunch.
My apartment is pretty sweet. It looks kind of like Harry Potter’s first
room because it`s under a store staircase.
The apartment is pretty average sized so that`s nice. I haven`t seen anything living in our
apartment besides a couple mosquitos.
There are lots of dead cockroaches outside, but fortunately I haven`t
seen a living one yet in our house.
We all have our health back except Elder
Greenwood. He broke his foot and had to
be made a secretary. So now it`s just
Elder Herrera and I. It`s great we own
two areas now and I wish our mission president allowed bikes, because they are
massive. I`ve lost about 10 kg because
of all the walking. It`s pretty cool
actually, I`m getting to the point where the weather isn`t affecting me as much
and I don`t sweat nearly as much. The
past couple nights I actually got a little cold, it was awesome! We have 4 beds
to sleep in because it`s only us, however neither of us trust the top bunks to
our bunk beds. We built the bunk beds
ourselves. They are being held up with
old cloths and their own weight ha ha.
We have a pretty massive kitchen considering other mission apartments
and we have couches and desks. I have learned that Sister Missionaries get
extremely spoiled. Legend has it that
their houses make some American houses look bad; and it`s only the two of them. They also get tons of referrals. It`s all
right though because as elders get to walk 10 miles a day at the least and stay
lean.
This week wasn`t too exciting. My zone leader likes to have meetings to plan
meetings, so we can count on having one about every day. Unfortunately we lose a lot of time during
these, but we work hard to make it up.
The main problem with Delicias is everyone wants to learn the theory of
baptism, but no one wants to be baptized.
They are interested in the steps towards baptism such as chastity and
word of wisdom, but don’t want to commit to them. We can walk down the street and talk to
someone and they`ll be our investigator for as long as we want to teach
them. We can return to their house and
they`ll let us talk, but very few will actually act. It’s a little annoying, but I like it better when
considering missionaries who can`t even get an investigator. Just tracting all day can be extremely
painful, but it`s all right as well at times.
I`ve only had one door closed to us.
The people here are awesome and the food as well. My stomach has finally
gotten used to it, everything except for tortas, My main problem with tortas is the weird
sauce that makes me gag. I can finish them but it takes like 30 minutes ha ha.
I`ve decided I`m going to take a picture
of myself every night of my mission for progressional reasons. Another elder did it and it was pretty
cool. My mission president is super
strict but super cool. He sent 13
missionaries home this week because they went to suicde squad on their p day. People can get sent home for just having a
dirty house on the wrong day h aha. But otherwise he`s super cool and has a lot
of love for the missionaries of his mission. I`ve met and talked with him a few
times.
We had about 20 minutes before we had to return to our house and we
didn`t know what to do so my companion just said we should walk around the
block to waste some time, as we walked one guy called us over and asked why we
walk all day. Apparently he sees us
walking up and down the streets, and he knows that we probably walk 10 miles a
day. We started to talk to him about why
we serve, he told us to stop really quickly and then told us to wait, he went
inside and got all of his kids, and then had us teach them a lesson. He was super into it and kept asking
questions. He got mad that only my
companion spoke a lot, because he really liked my answers. At first we asked him if he would like us to
teach him more and he said no because he was a hard practicing his Catholic
religion like his parents before him. As
we talked and bore our testimonies, by the time we finished he asked us if we
could come and teach him more. His wife
isn`t too into it, but with time we think we can get to her as well, it was
amazing. Cooler though is the fact that often I had no idea what I just said. I can speak in Spanish for an hour with an investigator
and recall next to nothing, at times it`s annoying like when we have to fill in
our data, but in reality it`s amazing when it happens and makes me think that
the gifts from God are amazing that he gives us to bless others.
Well talk to you next week,
Elder Bunch
Delicias Chihuahua
miracle count-53
tortialla count-59
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