Unfortunately, I have yet to see any tarantulas
here in Mexico. I have seen a couple
scorpions and a lot of mosquitos and flies.
That basically sums up the animal life here, except the millions of dogs
and cats that roam the streets.
Conference was super cool, except we lost
connection about every 5 minutes and it was all in Spanish. Besides that it was super cool to hear all
the talks, one of the cooler parts was I could understand about 80 percent of
the talks when I really focused.
Focusing was easier said than done because we were in the chapel with
about 200 people and the air conditioning was broken. Also, they had to close the windows and doors
in order to make it dark enough to see the screen. Saturday’s session was super cool; I even recognized
a few of the missionaries that were singing to in the choir.
I´m pretty sure ever since we started giving
blessing out during lunch everyone wants one.
We get random phone calls at night telling us to come over and give them
a blessing or pray for their family.
What is great is I´ve gotten pretty good at giving them. My companion basically just has me do all the
blessings. In fact, I don´t think he has
given one since the incident in the previous email. It´s super cool, I´ve gotten
to the point where I can feel if someone has faith and believes. There are times where I have really strong
impressions of what to say, and there are other times I no so much. One of the better this week we went to a less
active members house because she had been stuck in bed for 3 days and couldn´t
walk. We have hit a cold spell, and she
had major arthritis in her feet and hands and couldn´t move or work. We taught her a lesson and asked if she wanted
a blessing. She then told us about a
previous time she had received a blessing and it had healed her. She had tremendous faith in blessings and she
knew this one would help her as well. I gave
her the blessing, and i could tell she had a firm faith in the God and his
power. As soon as we finished we left
the room to give the husband a blessing because his foot was ran over by a car
a few weeks earlier. His foot was still
bugging him at work. I gave him a
blessing as well and did not feel strong impressions and guidance like I did
with his wife. As soon as we finished
his blessing the wife came walking in the room and sat down and started talking
with us. It was super cool to see how she had gone from being stuck in bed to
moving around and making some food.
This week I have also started to learn the gift
of patience. We have a youth volunteer follow
along with us, who also lives with the missionaries. It was our turn to have him with us. I´m not sure what he has but he definitely
has some sort of gift to peeve everyone off.
It doesn´t help when he likes one of the sisters that seems to be
interested more in me. I´m pretty sure
he has made it his personal job to snap out at us. Luckily for him, I can´t understand half of
the words he uses and from the looks of other missionaries I don´t think I want
to ha ha ha ha. Anyways dealing with him
has made it infinitely easier to deal with my companion and his quirks he has
at times. So I guess when you hit the extreme, everything before it just seems
easier.
I´m waiting until the 6th to open all the
boxes. I´m thankful for all the birthday
emails I got this week, they were super cool. It´ll be cool to work for others
on my birthday, my companion has given me the option to basically have another
p day. I didn´t take it, I’ve got a
feeling that it´ll be a good day for teaching.
By the way, I learned that we can´t read books
besides the scriptures. I pulled out a
scripture study guide and got ironed by one of the leaders, Ha Ha, oh well, it
was alright in the end. It is kind of weird, we can watch any movie recommended
by BYU, but we can´t read scriptural guided books. I have enjoy watching Johnny Lingo, and little
Manhattan, and my companion likes watching Catholic romances ha ha. Just wanted
to tell you so you don´t accidently send me a book. The mission rules are a little weird, but
they are there to help us. If you every see
a weird Rubik´s cube, I would be happy to have one. It´s about all I can do when we ride the buses
for 2 hours each day, and I´ve nearly mastered the 3x3 one. I can now solve it in less than a minute
miracle count 95
tortilla count 169
Elder Bunch,
Delicias Chihuahua
p.s. I am writing a ton in my journal and
although I have 4 journals it is very likely I might run out before the year is
up. Since I can´t read and movies are
only for p days and early nights. So because of this, I have a ton of free time
so I just write and write. The journals
have 365 pages and I average about 30 pages in a week. So once I start getting
close to running out, I´ll message you.
Right now I am solid and I don’t plan on forgetting much about my
journey here.
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