Well this week was super super awesome! First of all I got all the mail that was sent
to the Texas guy and learned how it works.
Alright here´s how it goes when you send it. He gets the mail about 3 days later, he then
waits until he has about 10 boxes, or 20 around holidays, and letters don´t
count, he just hoards them until he has all the boxes. He then travels to Chihuahua to check up on
everything, and then leaves them. They
then sit in the office until there is a meeting in a district where a package
needs to be delivered. They then load up
the president’s car with the boxes or they load them up on a bus depending on
who is going to the meeting. Then they
take them to the meeting where the missionary is. I received all my packages
last Tuesday, about 2 weeks after most were sent. This is a lot better than the 2 months in the
Mexican mail system. I also learned, NO
Saint Mary pictures are required on them since we have the Texas guy we don´t
need them. If you send one with St. Mary
pictures on it the office holds your package until the next cycle for
punishment. Luckily none of my packages
had one, I think ha ha ha. Oh, one of the least fun parts of receiving the
packages was that I had to walk an hour and a half with all 3... they weren´t
the lightest of packages (can´t wait till october 6!), so we probably walked
about 5 miles with them. I couldn´t
feel my arms for 2 days ha ha ha ha. But that was alright, the sacrifice only
makes it more worth it in 2 weeks.
Otherwise this week was pretty normal, we worked,
and walked, and worked, and walked, and ate at times in between those
intervals. Oh, I had my first pizza, and
burger this week, probably my favorite meals in the past 2 months ha ha. My companion does not like the food here
because everything is covered in red chile and lime, and he likes chile verde
salsa which comes from where he is from, the Yucatan more or less. I think the food is awesome! But it is super
spicy at times. However, super spicy is
awesome, except when you have to walk all day with an angry stomach ha ha. Wednesday we had cucumbers with lime juice
for our food, to kinda put in reference what we eat here.
Oh and I also got to attend my first baptism
here. There is one every week but
usually they are in different districts so we don´t get to attend. Because of how many baptisms there are we
don´t go to all of them because of how much time we would lose in travel. To reach them it takes up the entire
day. Anyway, remember in my first email
from my mission when I said we had 2 people committed to baptism, at least I
think that was the first email. Maybe
it was in the second, anyways they attended church for 5 weeks straight (one of
our baptism requirements) and were able to be baptized! Oddly enough they were
quite a bit heavier than Ryder was….. That´s right I got to do the baptism, and
it was 2 investigators. Their names were
José Daniel Gallegos Contreras and Angelica Guadolope Bustamantes Aparició. It
was definitely a miracle that I didn´t mess up on their names or the
prayers. Super super cool experience,
The coolest experience was afterwards in a baptism they have them bear their
testimonies for why they did it. And
almost every time they mention the missionaries, and we were the missionaries
for them. But perhaps the best part was
when I got my name put on the baptism records so no matter what, my name is on
their church records super super cool ha ha ha.
Well other than have my first baptism nothing
else much happened this week, besides one of the misionaries in our district
finished his mission and now his companion is our companion so we are back to 3
people. Luckily Elder Flores is a pretty
cool bato “dude”, well email ya next week
Elder Bunch,
Delicias Chihuahua
Oh and that foot fungus wasn´t actually foot
fungus. It literally was about 50
mosquito bites. 1 mosquito here will
bite you about 5 times if they have the chance, dumb little things… The "fungus" started going away
when I started using bug spray. My companion thanks you for packing the spray
kind so we can spray our blankets
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