Hey, it was fun talking to all of you yesterday
even if you were all fuzzy blobs for most of it ha ha ha. After the call my
companion´s parents didn´t answer his emails for about 2 hours, so we had to
wait for them to finally look at their emails.
While we were waiting the president turned on a marathon of Xmen for his
family, which apparently is one of their traditions. So my companion and and the other elders
spent our time watching wolverine origins while waiting for my companion to get
his parents to answer and start his skype call.
Today we went to the canyon to hike. Which really ended up being cool. It was a massive canyon with a river that ran
through it. It looked a lot like Lake
Powell, except with a little more brown rock.
The hike was really cool but I kept making the President nervous because
I was climbing up and down the cliffs and rolling rocks off the mountain. I
thought it was pretty fun, even if all the Spanish elders were feeling a fear
of heights through my antics. Especially
when I would pull off a crane pose on a overlook cliff. After being on top of
the canyon we went to the bottom and skipped rocks in the river. Apparently Mexicans don´t ever learn how to
skip rocks well so I was able to show off my skills a little by skipping rocks
across the entire river. I was getting
numbers above 10 on my skips. Now all of
them have videos of me skipping rocks ha ha ha. The whole hiking trip ended up
being really fun because usually we just clean the house on P day and
sleep. I will usually make a desert or
some food for lunch and the next week.
So although we don´t have any food to reheat for the entire week, we all
got some cool photos and were able to actually do something for once.
Anyway, this week was pretty fun, we basically just
had parties everyday. It ended up being
really hard to find people in their houses, especially near the end of the week
and the holiday, so we just spent our time helping members and a few more of
our more committed investigators with their Christmas plans. One of those I was talking about in the skype
call was that we helped prepare a pig after they had killed it. That basically just meant shaving the hair
off and cleaning out the intestines. It was a pretty cool to check out the
anatomy and to have the opportunity to see the whole process. Afterwards it
made me very thankful that i can just go and buy the meat at the store, even if
it is a little expensive at times ha ha. We ended helping the president of the
branch a lot as well with all of the members.
We then spent about half of our week in Chihuahua
for our mission Christmas party with the president. It was a fun experience just because I got to
see my old companions and my buddies from my generation in the CCM. The food
wasn´t the best nor the festivities but just seeing all the missionaries that I
knew was really fun. I also learned that
a lot of missionaries know of me, mainly because I enjoy writing on their
packages that they send through Texas.
The missionaries in Ojinaga are responsible for looking through the
packages when the President isn´t able and sometimes we tape the boxes shut.
Anyways at times we will call the missionaries that they have a package and
what is in it, or more often we will make fun of them, like an Elder the past week
who received a pack of water bottles for his Christmas present ha ha ha.
Saturday we spent almost the entire day in the president’s
house. The first 5 hours we just played
a scripture trivia game, and then family feud, at about 1100 we finally brought
out the food. We ate until 130 in the
morning, it was awesome!!! When we finally got home it was about 2:00 am in the
morning and elder Marx opened his only present which was a snuggie and slippers
and a camera (I sent you a picture). We
have all thoroughly made fun of him and his snuggie ha ha ha.
And then Sunday we went to church with the 10
members that came, and then lunch where we had Polsolle with chicken feet, and
then we skyped. I am learning to love
Chicken feet so keep a few alive for me when I return.
And yep that sums up my week! It was awesome
talking with all of you, have a great new years!
Elder Bunch
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