Cuauhtemoc, Week 2

Looks like Mexico is going pretty well for all of you guys! It will be an awesome experience to join in the adventure there in a bit! Besides that, I’m doing great! My sickness has left and i am back to working hard. Basically, my role in life right now is getting to learn the area super fast due to the fact that my companion has 5 months here in Cuauhtemoc and it is almost certain he will be changed here next week. So, I’m trying to learn an area in a week and a half which is quite the challenge, but I guess that is how it goes. Anyways this week has been full of experiences from living with Wolverine, climbing the death star, and getting to know a whole new group of missionaries and members!

Well let´s begin with living with the reincarnation of Wolverine from X-men, his name is E. Perez and he is from Orem Utah and Tijuana Mexico. He´s basically the guy you want to be with if you ever find yourself in a corner with a group of Narcos. His desk of study is a workshop where he makes shanks out of animal bones he has found in the area, he sleeps in a literal nest on the floor, he doesn´t feel pain, and when he was a kid he would free climb the mountains and cross the U.S. border just for fun. So basically, he is simply an awesome companion. Right now, he is teaching me the area, we cross through rivers and holes in fences to get to the areas we need to go, we also climb random abandoned buildings when i let him do it. The most recent building we climbed was a massive abandoned water tower, it was pretty cool, it has been nick named the Death Star by the missionaries because that is what it appears to be. This week we are planning to climb a massive jungle gym looking thing, it is a massive dome! It´s going to be great.

These next months are going to be great, the area that I’m in is full of people who are progressing to be baptized, also the branch here is on the verge of breaking into two branches because of how big it is, and it would be an amazing experience to help it break in two which would cause it to be one step closer to being a stake (right now it is a district with 7 branches). and the thing is that it is not all that difficult, the only problem is that the members aren´t super willing to help out, we have sacrament meeting at 9 so the members aren´t super willing to wake up at 6:30 with us and pick up all the people that we are missing. But we will just have to see what we can do with that haha.

Well there isn´t anything super new this week, besides preaching to the drunks we haven´t had any out of the normal experiences. But I’ll keep everyone updated with the next week, adventures with my new companion and whatever other experience happens to pass along our path!

Con mucho amor,

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Elder Bunch

México Chihuahua Misión

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