Elder Kimball

Hey it’s going great here in my new area. My comp is fantastic. Humble, intelligent, hard working, driven but also relaxed, athletic and we are going running in the morning, spiritual and not boring, so pretty much the complete deal, I think I am going to marry him. But we actually really do get along great, and I have already gotten on the good side of several member families which makes think a lot more fun and easier.

We have a kid here name Lenny that will be baptized on Saturday. We passed by their house and the mom was in the bed and was wriggling around like she was going through an exorcism.  She has nervous system problems but normally moves around fine with crutches and is a fun spirit. Well I didn’t know that so when I saw her it freaked me out. My comp was also nervous because she doesn’t normally do that. It turns out that she was taking super strong meds that were messing with her.  She started throwing up and then rolled over in it, getting it in her hair. Yuck. We had to move her so that she was leaning over the floor. We had to clean the throw up off the floor with folded news paper.  haha yumm. We gave the meds to her son and told him not to give them to her. The next time we got there she was a completely different person; happy and alive.   They are super poor but the son is very intelligent. 

We went and ate with an older couple that are a good time. At one point though, they turned on the air conditioning that was full of cat hair and dust, and within thirty seconds I started to feel that allergic reaction that always starts in the back of my throat and then my nose and within a short time I started to not be able to breathe.  That hasn’t every really happened to me but it was sketchy because it almost closed completely off. I had to go outside and sit down on the curb. The wife felt bad but they were also crackin jokes which was actually pretty funny.

We helped an old woman sweep a street corner, which turned out not to be hers. She just goes around sweeping hoping that people pay her which they do. We made an appointment to pass by her house the next day. When we got there it turned out to be a huge mansion!  =D   she showed us around the house which looked like it was haunted.  She is part of the Light of the World church that is a Christian church that was started by an ex missionary from this city about 60 years ago. That missionary made himself an apostle and it is actually pretty strong her in mexico, especially in Guadalajara. Their church looks like it comes from power rangers.  She told us that she can see the colors that people send off. Red means that they are diabolical. Blue means that they are in the grace of God. Yellow....   ha we didn’t have colors apparently so who knows what that means.  We finished the tour and we chatted a about general conference and invited her to go.  We finish off and asked if we could say a prayer.  WE went over to a carpeted section and we kneeled and she prostrated herself and started to give praises in the normal Christian way. It was like she had read the bible dictionary with the list of the names of Christ:  lamb of God, The great one, Master.....  well she had the list memorized and shouted them off in praise.  ha the prayer went over 10 minutes.  She got up super calm and after like nothing had happened.  ha but she was super nice and I enjoyed the chat.

There is one older lady that is half German. They are member and we became friends super quick.  She calls me Elder Guapo because she can’t say Christensen haha.  We helped them paint a room one night and all of the grandchildren ran in to help. They grabbed brushes and quickly made a huge mess of the floor, haha it was nuts. I was dying laughing.