This week was probably one of my more frustrating,
but awesome weeks in the mission! E. Marx forgot where his investigators lived
so we spent about 3 days of this week just trying to figure out where they were
all located. The main problem was that we did it all on very destroyed bikes
that bruise you just by sitting on them.
I´ve only just started to recover from the injuries that I endured in
the saddle during this past week. Luckily we have now figured out where they
all live, and I have decided that we are going to only use the bikes if we
really need to use them. Instead we are
going to contact as many people as possible. In the 2 days we had to contact,
we contacted more than E. marx and his previous companion contacted in 6 weeks.
Everyone was pretty impressed that we were able to pull it off. Turns out we
are kind of a experiment companionship due to the fact that gringos don´t train
other gringos. So far we have been
proving them wrong!
It has been a super awesome experience to train
someone. I used to tell E. Vargas (second
companion) that i would enjoy being a district leader or training a latino, but
I also told him that i would never want to train a gringo...Turns out he
recommended me to be a trainer of a gringo, and the president agreed ha ha ha.
But surprisingly it has turned out to be a lot better than I thought. E. Marx
has some quirks due to bad habits learned from his first companion, but he
knows that I know what I´m doing and has a desire to improve in all aspects
except waking up early. We are working
with him there as well ha ha ha. I have taken up a manera (way) of forcing him out
of his comfort of zone and making him do things that he thinks are impossible,
like giving the entire gospel principles class solo ha ha ha.
Anyways this week was a bit chaotic. The government here did something whacky and
all the prices went up super high this Friday.
Luckily the president told us to buy our food before then. The only problem was that everyone received
this same news. I don´t think I have
ever seen a grocery store with so little food after everyone had bought stuff
by Thursday, it was crazy!
This week I also went head to head with a native
Mexican in a chile dare. He bet me that
if I would rub a chile habanero on my face, he would do it as well and would also
buy me a kinder chocolate in the oxxo store. There was no hesitance after that,
and that was when the most painful experience of my mission began. Turns out it
didn´t really affect him, but me on the other hand I was pretty darn swollen
for about 3 hours and it felt like I had stuck my face to a hot pan. It wasn´t a fun experience to say the least,
but now when I eat other peppers that taste like candy, compared to that
experience. So I guess it was a blessing
in disguise ha ha ha. I´ve told Elder Marx I´m going to rub a habanero on his
face if he doesn´t wake up ha ha ha.
One cool experience we had this week was that we
were visiting an investigator and we were on our bikes and while on our way we
passed by a guy fixing a car and he was making fun of us for not having any
winter clothes on when it was so cold out. After that I turned to Elder Marx
and told him that if the guy was still there after the visit that we were going
to contact him, and he told me the same thing, so we went to the house of the investigator
and turns out he wasn´t home. So we
hurried and turned around and visited this kind of crazy guy. He turned out to
be super receptive and when I asked for his address he gave me his drivers
license, because he wanted to let me know that he wasn´t lying when he said he
wanted us to visit him. So that was a pretty cool experience!
Well that is all for this week! Nate, don´t get
mauled by any mountain lions.
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