Well this week was fairly basic. My companion needs to close the financial
cycle of the mission, which has left me to do basically nothing at all in terms
of my work as secretary. So I spent the
large portion of my week studying, doing practice essays and math problems,
increasing my writing speed to 72 wpm with accuracy, and doing splits with
other missionaries whenever I was given the chance, oh and designing the
t-shirt of Chimex (my zone). Saturday we
got to go to a famous cave system here in Chihuahua called (Nombre de Dios),
it´s a thing that most missionaries never get to do in their mission (it´s open
every day except Monday-p-day), due to us having our p-day Saturday we could
go! It ended up being really cool and very hot and humid in some parts. There
were a couple Americans there as well so it was fun to talk to them. We don´t see Americans often here because
they just tour the cool stuff, and most of that stuff is closed Saturday or we
as missionaries can't go. Anyways we talked for a bit, and although they
weren´t to interested in the gospel, it was still fun to speak a bit of English
with people haha.
Well throughout this week I spent almost
every morning doing something with immigration.
One of the new white guys lost his green card on arrival (kinda like I
did when I arrived) so I spent the entire week working with immigration to
allow him to get a new one. The process
that should´ve only taken around 30 minutes ended up taking about 2-4 hours
every day for the week. It´s all good
because they have now accepted the documents and all I have to do is tie off
the loose ties on Monday nice and early in the morning.
This week came the Ojinaga Elders for
their interviews a bit unexpected but very cool on my end haha. The assistants told them they couldn´t come
if they didn´t bring the packets. I got my 3 new Rubix cubes to add to my
collection of 9 different types, which I can all solve now! I´ve started
to become well known for my collection of cubes, and it´s a pretty good life
hahaha. Oh and my companion is very thankful for the Swedish fish, I still
don´t understand but almost all the Latinos are addicted to the stuff, so in
other words my companion is very content too haha. Thanks for the zebra cakes they have been
very good whenever we run short on energy in the offices haha. The new tie that
Grandma Bunch sent me has also been pretty sweet as well! Now a lot of
missionaries are looking around for the style that she sent, it´s quite the
awesome tie! I´ll look forward to my soccer cleats and socks as well, that´ll
make the soccer life a lot better. It
turns out I'm not very good at playing soccer, but I'm an excellent defender
especially when they let me play soccer like lacrosse with full contact, the
missionaries only get mad at me when I'm not on their team hahaha. Same thing
happens in basketball, not in terms of contact but the fact that no one can
take a rebound from me (height advantage haha) most of the time I get banned
from entering the inner ring hahaha.
This Saturday we got to go the Caves, it
is actually quite the cool cave system, you walk for about an hour through more
or less a straight line, the caves used to be an old silver mine, but the
quality wasn´t good and it was pretty dangerous and resulted in the deaths of
many workers and kids that fell down the shoot, so they closed it down and
reopened it into a cave tour with newly made passages and a whole bunch of
items. Besides the caves the day started out really cool because one of
my almost converts in Ojinaga- good chance soon to be converted. Called me up
at about 10:00 and told me he was going to come visit me in a bit. So we went
to the caves and as soon as we got out, he called me and told me that he got in
a massive accident, and was fine, but wouldn´t be able to make to the offices.
That was quite the bummer, it´s a bit crazy at times how many accidents there
are here, we´ve gotten in a few while in Uber, and we see at least 1 every week
as it is happening, crazy chihuahua drivers haha.
Sunday we had our stake conference and
Elder Ruiz from the 70 came down from Delicias (my first area) and talked to
the entire stake. The conference was
focused on marriage and he kept messing with the young single adults (JAS), and
then he did an activity with the missionaries and the JAS where he brought
every missionary in front of the stake and then brought up JAS for each
companionship of missionaries. We then
had to contact the friends of the JAS using their social media. It ends up being
pretty fun and we will see the results with time. The fun part of the
conference was how he called out almost all the members about how they didn´t
love their spouse enough and told a story about when he was going to be called
stake president a long time back. The 70
of the area called the kids of Elder Ruiz up to the pulpit and asked them each
a question about their family. He
started with spiritual questions (family home evening, scriptures study,
prayers,etc.) and they all answered them perfectly. Then he asked them about the love of their
family, and he asked his smallest daughter if she knew that her parents loved
each other. When he asked this question
she went blank and said nothing. So Elder Ruiz told us that the moment that the
70 did this interview in front of everyone was the day he committed to change,
and so he talked a lot more on this subject today, but that was some of the
cooler parts that he talked about. But basically, he said that although the
gospel part of the church is very important, the love felt in the family is
equally as important between spouse and kids. In order to strengthen one, you need to strengthen
the other as well. Every one of the speakers that talked today told their
stories about how they met their spouse, which was pretty cool because we got
to learn how the president of mission met his spouse on the last week of his
mission. Although every missionary here
in the mission knows that part of the story, they don´t know what actually
happened, and now I am one of the few that does! Win! Hahaha.
Well, that was our week here in
Chihuahua, oh and my trainer is my companion again, only for this week, but it
is awesome! He has been one of the best companions that I've had yet!
Con amor,
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Secretario Ejecutivo
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