tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599392648096426212024-02-21T08:07:19.642-08:00Tour de TorreonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08079808469127363755noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859939264809642621.post-29139218710432471822015-01-05T19:10:00.001-08:002015-01-05T19:17:27.540-08:00Last Letter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Well
- my last letter. What do you say in your last letter? </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">Today
will be the last time that I will have to use a public computer. Two
years of letters from you guys. Im a spoiled child. Thank you
family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
was talking to my companion this morning about how we spend two years
trying to help people that for the most part don't really want to be
helped, We try to show them how to progress but most are fine with
where they are. After pushing against that rock for so long it puts
in us a strong desire to progress and be helped. But it takes time
and it requires a lot of patience. Here on the mish, most of our time
and effort is focused on others. Now that I am going home, that
desire can be directed almost exclusively towards my own progress. I
am looking forward to exercising, reading, and working on some other
stuff.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">The
mission has been a lot of what everyone had told me it would be.
Difficult, dirty, fun, boring, satisfying, trying. Really good days
and very hard ones. Its weird to almost have it in my rear view
mirror instead of my windshield. I am pretty sure that looking back
on in several years I will see that I will have received a lot
more than I gave. On this end of the adventure Im glad that I
gave it everything that I had and feel complete gratitude for the
many great people here that often gave more than they had to help my
companions and I. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">My
dad always told me that "people are not the means to an end,
they are the end of means." That life is about people.
That has been very true about my mish. The people are
everything, and it has been worth everything to have been able to
help out an old widow, or the young family that has almost no money,
or the self destructive man that has every vice there is. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Things
that have changed about me</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
chew mint gum now. (every other type still makes me nauseous) </span></span></div>
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<li><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm
now not grossed out by using dishes washed by hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
have eaten every part of a cactus. </span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
wash clothes using just stick and a pop bottle</span></span></div>
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<li><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 114%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
speak with the ñ and double rr</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
eat everything from popcorn to peanuts with salsa and I pretty much
always have had a tortilla in my hand</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
can make some sweet cement mix on the street outside your house</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
know pretty much everything one can know about dog behavior </span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
have a pretty good idea about what my mustache would look like...if
one day I can actually grow one</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
have eaten fried pig skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I
have seen how to prepare intestines for a good ol´ taco</span></span></div>
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has been a home away from home. A very spicy, and well armed, and
dusty home, but I really have come to love my hermanos here. And I
guess like many of those great hermanos, my time has come to cross
the border.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ha
"not going anywhere for Christmas" Eh?? :) that’s
great that you got away.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
have enjoyed your quotes and ideas and I have been thinking a lot
about them in these last few weeks. It’s probably because I
am finishing off the mish and I have a lot on my mind. I have taken a
considerable amount more of time in my prayers to just meditate and
reflect. My comp also gets tired and goes to bed early so I have time
alone to think at night. I honestly have had an incredible experience
with it. I feel like I have received answers to questions that I have
had and I have been able to understand myself better. I have
really focused on questions like: What makes me happy? What are my
fears? Why do I fear? What are my goals? How have I changed? How do I
want to keep changing? What do I want my relationships to be? What do
I want to avoid? How do I not fall backwards? What are my
weaknesses/strengths? When have I followed the spirit? When have I
ignored the spirit. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
feel that my understanding of myself is considerably better. An
interesting concept is that when we are children we have these fears,
and habits, and insecurities that we don’t really understand and
that make us act differently than we would like. I feel like I
have been able to sort through them. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">One
thing that I have realized on my mish and especially in these last
weeks is how essential good communication is to having a healthy
life. When I don't communicate well, I normally feel rotten and
usually the situation almost always turns the wrong direction. If we
are good on a basic level at communication with God, other people and
ourselves, this can unlock many doors. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Thanks
for all of the letters that you and mom have sent me. I will be
looking at them for a long time to come. I still read every now and
then the letters that I have received in the past. I understand your
ideas in a new way every time that I read them. =) thanks
parents.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Week: was killer fun. It really was one of my favorite weeks of
my life. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">On
Monday we went to the center plaza as a district and blew up a bunch
of balloons and connected them to little cards of "he is the
gifts." We went around giving them out to the people. It
was super fun to see so many people with balloons, especially the
children all running around and playing with them. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">On
Tuesday we went to the mission home. In the mish home, I met up some
buds of the mish and had a killer time. Piñata! We had a gift
exchange and I received cologne. haha awesome (gave it to
my comp when we got home, I think I will stick to the old spice).
During the party I yelled "silly string!" and started
spraying my buddies with it! They laughed and ran away. We
watched frozen - Cate looks like the blond one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">Wednesday:
I talked to my awesome family!! woot woot. I always leave those calls
thinking "they probably think that I am really mischievous here.
Burning the shirt at the year mark might have been my craziest
act here. Well, I still have two weeks to get arrested. We will see.
We finished the night at Nacho’s house</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">Thursday:
We went to Torreon and met with several zones. Pretty much all of my
comps were there. We played sports for 4 hours. I was in
heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">Saturday:
A sister had a wedding here. It was in her house and it was
really small, but it was fun. We helped serve the food because nobody
else would do it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I’m
cracking up about the eucalyptus tree joke. I had to look it up. I
didnt know that word.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="line-height: 114%;">Nacho
is awesome, I try to convince them to go to </span><span style="line-height: 18.2399997711182px;">Utah</span><span style="line-height: 114%;">. His brother
lived there for ten years so they have visited there a lot. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
got a letter from the ward, super nice of all of them, I don't have
lots of time so I think I will thank them personally in 2
weeks. I also got an awesome package from Kristin. I will send her a
letter. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; line-height: 114%;">I
have been craving Great Harvest bread. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">I
hear beards are in now. Haha - I would definitely grow a beard...But
I can't get the hair coming out of my face quite right. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Without
lying, I do have to shave my mexi-stache every day "cause
im a man" (Jim Gaffigan voice) But on the cheeks only one hair
comes out every once in a while and when I shave it it seems to die
screaming: "I was your only hope and you killed me!" or
just "i’m melting!" Then it seems to pop up a few
months later on another part of the face. </span></span></span></span>
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to the young men’s class instead of going to the Elders’ quorum class (which
makes me fall asleep) because the President of the YM’s wanted us to share some
words. Sweet. He really didn’t have to say much to convince me. The
president is 20 years old, a convert, and about to go on his mish. The YMs
consisted of 3 youth; all good chaps. The youngest is a very humble good
kid that doesn’t hide who he is. He is who he is. When he bears his testimony
his honesty brings the spirit. He was the one that invited Luis (kid that
just got baptized) and was largely responsible for the rapid progress.
The other two are older and also good guys but do try to be the cool
kids. The President is Mario and he had invited the mothers and fathers
to the small meeting and he was super nervous. He had a blood vessel popped; I
think due to the stress. He began talking about how the quorum had some really
big problems, and I felt as he talked that it was a little dramatic, but the
meeting turned out to be really great. These kids are not sinners and the
parents did a good job in giving them praise as well as good counsel. We all
got to talk a little and I really enjoyed the atmosphere. At the end Mario (YM Pres)
acknowledged that it was a good quorum and then shared a story about his past:
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younger he had never realized that his father beat his mother. He said sadly
that he didn’t understand how he was so clueless but that he lived in a bubble.
The last time that it happened, he caught his father in the act and hit him
until his father left the house, his father punched him back but once Mario got
in the door, he wouldn’t budge. Sometime later his father returned to the
house. Mario warned him to leave and his father kneeled down before him and
pleaded for forgiveness. But Mario said that he denied him. His mother told him
that she wanted to talk to her husband. Mario was enraged and stormed out of
the house. He didn’t go home that night. The next day, his friend asked
him if he heard what had happened at his house the night before. He hadn’t.
His friend told him that his father had died. That he had said good bye
to everyone in the family and then that night passed away. Mario said how
awful he feels about having been so arrogant as to not forgive his own
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overcome and that he was embarrassed to even say it, that he would love it if
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comments about the private nature of loneliness, I thought about my first video
call in May of 2013. In that time I was feeling stressed and frustrated
and as I closed the video chat I felt good; but walking out into the dimly
lit street I remember that my comp was asking me about the fam and I answered
pretending to be happy but really felt confusion. I remember thinking
that I should have been filled with good feelings having just seen my fam and
having a good comp, but really I just felt the overwhelming sensation of
loneliness and sadness. Probably because it would be a long stretch before I
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that because of the stark contrast to how I feel now. In this area I have lots
of friends; children in the street, families that we teach, drunks, man that
sells the beer to the drunks, teens, teachers, store keepers, poor , rich,
super fat man, distressingly skinny little girl...etc. I am friends with
the members and the other missionaries and I will be soon getting home to a
welcoming family and lots of friends. I don’t feel lonely anymore,
especially not spiritually. My core beliefs are as strong as they have ever been.
I have a lot more spiritual knowledge now and that makes me feel more competent
and helps me live better. I have worked hard every day of my mission and
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of the activities that will be happening this week, the mish had transfers on Thursday,
the other guero (which means white boy) had transfers so I am now the
only white boy in the entire city. sweet</span></span></div>
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basketball today in the morning but because I am the only whitey I am a foot
taller than everyone else, so we decided to play soccer instead. They
were the ones to choose basketball but soccer was more fun because they are
really good at it. </span></span></div>
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so they had this huge Guadalupe (Mexican version of the Virgin Mary) parade
this week. We had to be in the house at six because they all get drunk. It was
just outside of the house so we put on normal clothes and went out to watch 5
minutes of it. I put on a mustache so that they wouldn’t kill me.
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city, 15 mins from San Pedro, in the morning to hold sacrament services there; coolest
experience. There are 30 members there that don’t come because of the
distance. Pretty much all of them are women, they didn’t all show up but
a good group made it. We had the services in a partly built mud one room
house; super humble and great people. Also we had a big bread roll to use and
not that many people so the bread chunks were big and yummy! It took two
bites for me to eat it all. My comp, the 1st councilor, and ward mission leader
(that had come with us) and I all took some time to share a message. I
talked about Alma in the Waters of Mormon. How we like them were a small
group but that </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">didn't </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">make it any less right. How others were anxious to find
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experience. I remember Cate telling me how she had shaved off a huge chunk of
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we can baptize them. Soo yesterday was
the last chance that I had to get people to church to have them get baptized in
that time frame. Any new progress will require a baptismal date for the
Saturday after I leave. That’s weird. I pretty much had to threaten this guy to get him moving. Ha and...no investigators showed up.. nailed it. But we
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super jealous about the Subway hike. Maybe we can do it again in
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was baptized this on Friday! Crazy stuff actually,
because Thursday night we realized that no one would be in
town on Saturday so we had to do the baptism on Friday. He
needed to have his second interview so we called him that night but
he was with some friends watching a movie and he couldn’t do it
that night. I guess it was scary because he told us later that he
almost peed his pants. Ha so we had the interview the day of
the baptism and then we went to fill the font and found it filthy.
There was lots of dirt, bugs and even a scorpion. The drainage was so
clogged that we had to bucket the water out and then pour it down the
toilets. Finally we got it clean and started to fill it, but it came
out cold so we lit up the boiler. The pipes were dirty and the water came out rusty brown and with flies. I had to make a
call to the bishop to see if he was going to show up with the
baptismal clothes. While I was doing that the other elders saw the
font and thought that the kids had made it dirty because the water
was murky and started blaming them, because they didn’t know about
the rusty pipes, chaos. But finally the Bishop showed up and it was
go time. My comp and I spoke and we watched a video. Luis is a
great kid and the baptismal service, with all of its confusion
beforehand, turned out to be fantastic. I actually had a great
time in the prep time laughing with the other elders. </span></span></div>
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months ago the zone leaders combined and made a list of goals for the
mission. One of them was to "honor the sacrifice of those from
benemerito" (that was the school that is now the MTC). Everyone
thought that that was weird and Youd and I were always joking about
it. So I made him a small kit "to honor the sacrifice"
which included candles and a balloon, and tinsel and a CD with the
school song and a yoga type song from gladiator, and other things.
Haha - he made a small alter type thing on his desk haha.</span><br />
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an older woman brought our food to church. It was two sandwiches with
beef and potatoes. She is the nicest lady and very humble.
She lives in a partially built house and is 80 something years old.
She is pretty much a pioneer here. She has collected every
Liahona since the day that she was baptized thirty years ago. She
goes with signs that she makes and ´preaches in the cemetery and the
town center. One son is the branch president. Great people.</span></span></div>
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shoes have some pretty sweet holes in them but they will last these
last 7 weeks. I am determined.</span></span></div>
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fixed my chair with a cinderblock. Now it’s awesome - Super manly.
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night we contacted a house looking for a woman that we had spoken to
earlier. I think I was a bit tired because I was trying to say to her
that we didnt want to intrude on her privacy because there wasn’t a
man there and that we would return later. Unfortunately it came out
something like " we dont want to violate you right now so we
will wait and come back until a man gets here." :D I
fixed it after. sort of ... ooops.</span></span><br />
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both were baptized a short time ago. They don’t have any money. She
broke her lower spine a few months ago because she had fallen off a
roof. They heard this week that she probably wouldn’t be
receiving disability income. We brought them food this week and
sang hymns with them. My heart breaks every time I talk with
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He is from the capital of Mexico (DF). Honestly I had
enjoyed the two weeks before so much that it was hard at the beginning of the
week to not be kind of bored. The advantage with the other two who were my
comps was I had already known them for a month and we were already great buds
when President put us together. With three together we were always talking and
laughing. He is great - super nice. Starting with someone that you don’t know
is always more boring because you have to start off with the get to know you
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Heyo my comp just came from the other side of the
mission. They didn’t know where they were going so they got off in
another parking lot and where waiting for us there. They didn’t have a
cell phone so we couldn’t call them. We were waiting for 3 hours for them and
finally we got a call from the president of the other branch saying that two
elder had been identified by a less active taxi driver and carried to his
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This week we received our influenza vaccinations. They
told us that they were only giving them that day to senior citizens, so an
elder and I went around the corner and he gave me a beard that he had in his
backpack, and I walked in like an old fart and they got a good laugh and ended
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that is hilarious about the demolition gang in the Sorensen home. I remember
chatting with Scott Featherstone and he started saying something like "do
you remember just before your house was demolished, a group of rowdy children
showed up and shredded the insides. What lack of respect right?" I
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read The Giver twice and actually we were talking about it this week. I’m
pretty excited to see that one. Why would people be against that book? It
contains some dialogue on sex but not much. It is about a kid that goes rebellious
against a corrupt system and the norm, but in a sense that is everything we
believe. To do what is right over what is common. Alma did it. Noah did
it; even and especially Christ. I really enjoyed that book, quick read. I
remember talking about the ending with Gram Lois. About whether he died
with the baby or if he really found the village. I really like those
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had a lesson last night with a guy from South Carolina. I met him a couple of
weeks ago and when I told him that my parents had just been in Myrtle Beach he
got excited. In the lesson we talked about the same concept, that our
progress completely depends on us, That the blessings and knowledge are waiting
on us. We watched two Mormon messages and the lesson was super strong. He
looked me the eyes while we were leaving and said "thanks for
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you (parents) think that we knew all about God, and science, and math and a lot
of everything before this life and that we are merely re-learning it?
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also had a lesson with a youth that is part of an inactive family. He is 19
years old. HIs parents have been inactive for several years and in at the beginning
of the year the grandfather got sick so the grandmother (who lives with them)
had to stop going to church to take care of him. After that the grandchildren
stopped going as well. The son mainly because he got bombarded with "Go on
mission" propaganda (which can be very positive) and he just doesn’t have
the foundation to make such a large decision so stopped going. I really like
the quote that talked about the fact that great people own responsibility for
their education. We talked about how his relationship with God was completely
personal and that his decision needed to be his. How children who are forced to
play the piano often don’t work to hard at it unless there is some serious
enforcement (tiger parents). But if we learn to enjoy or at least desire to
learn or do something it brings to birth real progress. We laughed and
joked around with him but he understood the message, so it was a good
time. The mission has been really good for me for this reason. I have had
to learn how to be completely responsible for myself; to earn my own
testimony, to get myself up on time, and especially to learn just for the sake
of learning. Parents often have to take the role of the bad guy with children
to teach them the limits and to get them moving along, because if they don’t
the children fall into bad things. But if the child pushes himself, the
parent can become a counselor rather than the "dictator" and there is
more trust and the parents can become a source of knowledge - which is definitely
more fun than the Enforcer. Thanks for pushing me when I was young.
I am thinking that the aftermath of the mish will be a strong relationship
between mis padres y yo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comps are studs. The elder from Cali has a week left but he works super
hard. The other is new and cracks me up. There must be lots of
good people that have prayed for me because I have ended up with the best
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part of the week - The apartment under ours has a small patio behind the house
where two pit-bulls live. The apartment is under construction so the owners don’t
live there, they just sometimes pass by. One night they passed by and both dogs
jumped up to the window to see them, but as there was only space for one they
started shoving to get the spot. They started fighting and we, at our desks
planning, heard them at this point because one was whining. We ran to the
window and watch as they went completely crazy. The larger one latched its jaw
on the slightly smaller one and whipped it around. I'll spare you the details. The owner finally poked it in the face with a broom stick and he
released. The put a chain on its neck and the other escaped, but was
pretty torn up. We had made brownies but we were all nauseous and couldn’t
eat. The owners are slightly insane and annoying. Yesterday the dog
was outside and barking, annoying so we grabbed a fire cracker that a kid had
given us and chucked it down there. haha it scared him so bad that
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the Mission Office - which is awesome because he is going to send me several
new name tags and a blanket and other things I need and some letters that I
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the teaspoon of blood it had taken from me on my tan pants. He looked at me
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Our area was combined with the area that is the other part
of the ward; so now I am in a trio with the elder from Cali that is
heading out in two weeks and his trainee. Party on! Ha - we are good buds
because we have been with them all the time. The last comp that I had leave
from the mish was last August. In two weeks five of my comps take off.
ha all studs except for one that was actually a bit difficult. He was the
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So we got thinking creative and planned out and activity
where we were going to chalk out the plan of salvation in the pavement of the
center plaza here in the city and then show it to the people. We had to go and
get permission from the county reps here so we went to the building and found
the office. We kind of had doubts that we would get it because several member
told us that we wouldn’t. The woman in charge asked me where I was from.
I told her a southern state of Mexico named Oaxaca. She said o wow I thought
you were gringo. Ha - we kept chatting and then I said he I was just kidding I
am actually from Utah. Her eyes opened wide and exclaimed "no
seriously, I have a cousin there." She was super excited and we
talked about it. We ended up getting permission not only to do it in the plaza
but to do it in the Pavilion in the center which had flat tile to draw
on. Ha when the members asked how we got it, my comp pointed at me and
said " El hizó la barba" which means that I
flirted to get it. ha It actually turned out pretty great. We
invited people up and taught them. We went back in the night which had a
different feel because there were just a bunch of teenagers hanging out,
skating, break dancing, and for the most part just making out. We were
thinking about just going around and giving out a bunch of chastity
pamphlets and talking about eternal marriage. Cali Elder (my new comp)
busted out a bunch of moves on one of the skate boards of the skater kids
which drew some good attention. We also bought some friggin delicious
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Has Owen’s voice started to change? I grew 3 inches in the
summer between 7th and 8th grade and 2 inches that fall. The kid will be
a giant. Remember when Mr. Lindsay put me on my own "Island" for
talking to Anna smith and the Pike bros. haha Ya he was too stressed and
overweight. Actually I am pretty sure he died from a heart attack several
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you don’t think I know who Nicolas sparks is....!!?? Wow, I am offended. Going
to the Carolina’s because that is where Nicolas sparks made his movies. Sweet! Why didn't I think of that..... In the movie October Skies, this lady is always talking
about Myrtle Beach and painting a panorama of it. When you said that you went
to the beach in the Carolina’s, I knew that you went to that beach because of
this movie. ha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new Mish President is fantastic. He is a good mix of funny and serious. He
asked a sister mish in one of the training meeting if she ever felt attracted
to the boys she saw on the street. She said no because "she is a
missionary." His response was more or less; "well that’s not true,
and it shouldn't be like that. You are not robots. You are adolescents; very
good ones but you still are what you are. You don’t have to stop being yourself
to be a missionary. You just have to dedicate yourself, work hard, follow the
rules, and keep high standards. But you don’t have to enslave who you
are." It caught my attention because I have thought and talked with
my comps a lot on my mish. I think I have found a good balance. At times I have
probably been too serious and other times probably had too much fun. But I haven’t
strayed too far from what I think has been that good balance. For example my
comp and I studied super hard this morning then after a couple of hours we
started to clean the house and I grabbed a tape roll and we started playing a
game which continually transformed between soccer, hockey, and ninja badmitten,
which he grabbed a shirt and I grabbed my towel and we started locker room
whipping each other. Haha, we finished super out of breath and gasping with
laughter. He got me several times solid on my bum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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liked what you said about tearing down celebrity status. It made me think of
Elder Cook’s talk where he was talking about Facebook." He observed
that when using social media, we tend to broadcast the smiling details of our
lives but not the hard times at school or work. We portray an incomplete
life—sometimes in a self-aggrandizing or fake way. We share this life, and then
we consume the “almost exclusively … fake lives of [our] social media
‘friends.’” “How could it not make you feel worse to spend part of your time
pretending to be happier than you are, and the other part of your time seeing
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had a baptism on Saturday. His name is Lenny and is 9 years old. He got
to his interview Friday 2 hours early because he was so excited and before the
baptism he took my camera and was taking pictures of the room and the
font(almost dropped my camera in the water) "so that he wouldn't forget a thing." He has a hard life but is a great kid. The funniest thing
happened. He was baptized by a member and while they were in the bathroom
changing together we were in another room sing hymns with those that had showed
up. The member finished changing first and told Lenny that he was going into
the other room and that "when he was done changing he could leave when he
wanted," obviously just taking about leaving the room. But Lenny finished
changing and left the church and ran home because he was so excited to go tell
his neighbors or something. We in the other room had no Idea of this and
because he was taking a long time I went to go check in on him and he was gone!
Ha - we checked all of the rooms and outside then asked some kids
playing outside and they told us that he had taken off. Ha - we said a
prayer with the group and finished up. They don’t confirm until Sunday
anyways so it was fine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been doing a lot of service here. We went and cleaned out the back yard of
an investigator of the other elders in the branch. We chopped up branches and
cut out grass and weeds. The investigator walked around and told us all about
her plants. She is super proud of them. She looks like Catherine Zeta Jones.
That explains why the other elder were so willing to do a big ol service
project. =D The scary part of the project is that there were two pits about 4
feet deep. One elder cut the grass out of one pit and then we were looking it
the muddy mess and black widows started crawling out. I have seen maybe 4
in my life before that day, 2 of which were here in Mexico. But on Thursday we
killed no less than twenty of them; male and female. They weren’t just in the
pit; they were in the trees, and bushes and walls. The two Mexican elders
had a spray and every time that someone spotted one, they ran over like the
fire squad and dowsed it with raid. It got sort of sketch working so we,
like Biff, "made like a tree and Got out of there." After the
work project, they fed us lasagna and a real salad. I say real because the
normal salad that they use here includes shredded lettuce and tomatoes and
lemons and no sauce. Ha Elder Kimball saw the meal and said real food! ha
I was crackin up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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branch has some problems with gossiping and other challenges. There are many
that can’t take the sacrament but they are trying to get back into full
activity in the church which is noble. I bore my testimony on friendship
and showing love yesterday. There is one older lady that I have really connected
with here. She is super dramatic and gossipy but can get offended very easily -
but she and her sister are funny cats. She gets really annoyed by some other
members. A member stood up at the beginning to bare her testimony and the one
that likes me stood up and left the room. Gosh. I didn’t know what she was
doing. Then she came back and I bore my testimony on showing love and she
told me after that it hit her pretty hard. Ha, she actually is really humble in
some ways. We had a lesson with her and her husband and she talked about how
she was drinking coffee and not reading the scriptures. We helped them
make goals and she hasn’t touched coffee since and she and her non member
husband are reading the BoM together every night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is super easy to fall into the trap of criticizing the people. There is less
education, an anti-progressive culture and a pinch of poverty (prob not as much
as megs and meish had). But criticizing thoughts are so negative and mainly
inflicts harm to the critics view of life. I have tried a lot to become friends
with them rather than think bad about them for their habits. I kind of have to
tell myself that they aren’t going to be my wife, or compañion or child so I should
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book you are reading as a fam has 184 pages. At 25 pgs a month it will take
more than seven months. I will be done with my first semester of school before
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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The craziness was that last night we had the transfer calls,
and both my comp and I are being transferred! They are closing many areas
because of the large group of missionaries finishing their missions. But that
meant we had to get everything ready for the other missionaries in the area
next door that were going to eat our area; lots of people to call. We had 8
people getting ready to get baptized very soon - so we are hoping that the new
elders visit them and that nothing falls through the cracks - but that is how
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My old comp and I are sitting in the same internet cafe an
hour from the old area with our new comps one either side. We were called to
the same district. The area is called San Pedro. It is the city where
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super fun and disorienting because it is all big buildings and city life there
and we are used to neighborhoods. President is replacing the male missionary
secretaries with female full time ones that are from the ages 30-70. They are
pretty cool gals, but somewhat overwhelmed since they have only been there a
few weeks. My comp asked one how she felt and she immediately started baring
her testimony in the Young Women General Board voice saying how she has felt
the spirit so strong and she knows what she is doing is right.....aka she is
pretty stressed, but they were all great and will get the hang of it pretty
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found an oldish woman (45) a couple of weeks ago outside of her house, and she
told us that she didn't want to listen. We started talking about life and
pretty soon we were sitting under her lime tree teaching a lesson. She is supér
laid back and wears these Willy Wonka type shades because she has a lazy
eye. We joke around a lot with her which she likes. She hasn't gone
to church yet because she is leery of commitment and thinks that she will be
signing herself into a lot of work if she goes. This week her son came
out and joined us in the lesson. We knew him because we had played a short game
of soccer with him and his buddies. Good kid! He is 11 years old and
understands the concepts we teach much better than many adults (it is
interesting to see the differences between children who are studying and the
adults who work in manual labor jobs). When we asked the mom things
like: "what changes have you seen in your life when you have tried to
follow God?" She would say "well I used to beat my kids but...now all
I do is yell at them; isn't that right boy?!" Her boy would nod his
head and say yes. My comp and I were bustin up´. Then in the prayer the kid
said "help us to get to church this week with these hermanos, and if we
are convinced by what we learn there help us go every week." Then the mom
would start shouting things for him to say like "pray that you will be a
better son for your angelic beautiful mother." I tried not to laugh
but then I heard my comp stifle a giggle and I was shaking. I had to plug my
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week I had exchanges with an elder from the south of Mexico. He is a humble guy;
a bit shy but very dedicated. He seems somewhat serious, and is all about the
work but definitely not overbearingly. Unfortunately the members sort of took
it wrong and in my first few weeks quite a few members were talking bad about
him to us. Though I didn't really know him I stood up for him. In the exchanges
I became really grateful for that decision as I got to know him. He turned out
to really funny and a solid good hearted kid. I felt like I could be myself
with him and he opened up a lot. Since then he has opened up a lot more with
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have been teaching a family of 4+ people. Father, daughters, grandmother, uncle
cousins... The group changes a lot but there is always someone that wants to
listen when we pass by. The story is actually quite something. The father
became divorced with his wife this spring and it tore him apart. He began to
drink large quantities of heavy liquor and spiraled into a darkening
depression. He lost a lot of weight and desire and hope of the future.
Just as he was hitting rock bottom his uncle from a city north of here
randomly called to check in on him. The uncle is a bishop there and turned out
to be an answer to his prayers. They talked for hours and the uncle drove down
here to contact the missionaries himself. The man that we are teaching doesn't talk much but he is sincere and follows through. In the exchanges this week he
opened up to us and then we talked about the atonement of Christ. After the
lesson, my companion for the day told me that he had felt the spirit so strong
that he almost cried. This family showed up at the baptism of the family
I had interviewed and felt desires to do the same. The zone leaders interviewed
them after the baptism. The grandmother had doubts and wasn't sure if she
wanted it. The other three were set on going through. It turned out to be a great thing because the grandmother really connected with the ZL and felt the
spirit and decided to go forward. Unfortunately, she and her son both had some
word of wisdom issues - so we have to wait a bit but they all left with goals
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is an older man that we contacted several weeks named Don. He is a lively
spirit but has funny mixed views of religion and science; the result of growing
up in the dominant religion. He goes around during the week fixing all of his
neighbors electrical, plumbing....etc problems and cutting their grass free of
charge. He was showing us his tools and then the kids that were playing soccer
in front of us passed the ball to my comp. He went in to play. Don and I sat
down on the back bumper of his car and started chatting about the meaning of
life and his view of it. It was actually a really fun conversation but then his
neighbor called him over to see if he could make a quick fix of something. I
joined in the soccer game while we waited for him. Heck of a good time.
After playing a bit we said first team to three. We got it tied up 2 to 2 and
then Don jumped into the game and the ball got to him. He awkwardly kicked it
towards the goal and by some miracle it went in. We were dying. Everyone ran to
him and cheered him. We had to take off but he gave us a box of cereal to eat
for dinner. It was great because it helped us connect with him, and honestly my
comp and I both need a tiny bit of sports every now and then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the normal Torreon, flood the streets and everything else in 7 minutes,
rain several times this week. We got soaked. And there is small tumble bush
(remember Powell =D ) forest behind our house and it flooded so there were tons
of mosquitoes. We had left a window open and as we entered the house one night
we saw in horror that the walls were covered in mosquitoes. We made scary movie
music with our mouths. We then grabbed a sandal and looked at each other (and
it was like that moment in Lord of the rings when Aragon looks back at
the army and says dramatically "for Frodo" and then runs at the enemy
hosts. Then we just started running around slapping the walls with the sandals
and grabbing the ones in the air. At the end we stood in the middle of
dead bugs everywhere and it was like that moment in Mr. and Mrs. Smith when
they are in the shopping center and they look at each other after killing
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the service I grew up with but she got under the retainer well - so that was
good. That part where they use that cleaner thingy that spins around normally
takes a bit of time. They run it over every part of every tooth. She did it in
record time. She started on one end and it took her 5 seconds to make a bee-line to the
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interviews, in one afternoon. A family is getting baptized including 2 young
children. They were smart little fellers and the next day at church both ran
over to hug me. I asked the 8 year old one if he knew what the Word of
Wisdom is. He said "oh yes that means that I can’t have relations with
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week asked us if we could sign his Book of Mormon because he wanted to remember
the two missionaries that brought him out of the darkness. His mom and
daughters will also be baptized. He doesn't talk much but what he says is
honest and from his heart and when he says he will do something - he does it.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We took an investigator to the stake center where they have
a program to help people become self-sufficient. The investigator has been out
of work for two months which has made him very open to listen to us but also
very stressed. These centers of self sufficiency are actually really great in
several stakes, the man playing the piano with me is in charge of one, and I
was hoping the best. My comp called the people in charge to find out the times.
They told us that they left at 1. We showed up at 12, it took us twenty min to
get there and a bit of hassle, they weren't there. We called them, and they
told us that they had just left. We went back the next day and an old man cam
to greet us. He asked us what we wanted and who the other guy was; not very
friendly. We went into the "office" and found several computers. The
old man was the missionary in charge. He gave us a large pamphlet and didn't
really say anything else. We searched on the computer for jobs but didn't
really find anything. We were kind of hoping for something a bit... more. We
had talked it up a bit. We took him to McDonald’s after to buy a breakfast
burrito. He didn't really know where we were going and when he realized that we
were going Mickey-Dees he kind of freaked out and didn't want to go in. He
finally agreed that we could buy some ice cream. We talked after about what had
happened and tried to figure out the '' why.¨ We settled on that
either he was a Wendy’s fan, or felt bad that he would be eating without
his fam while they don't have much money, or is the BIG MAC BURGLER that they
have been looking for and they would catch him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were passing a house and a guy walked out with 3 human
sized trophies. My comp ran up to him and said ''Messi – it’s you; we found
you!'' We snapped some photos and the guy laughed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An older lady that has a daughter about to get baptized
turned 80 or something like that, so we bought her some balloons. The helium was
expensive - so we figured that we would buy one balloon with helium and then
tape the others to it. Ya – well, they all fell to the floor together. But the
old lady probably figured it out after and had a good high pitched voice game
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several children were playing in front of the house and one
had a pic of John Cena. My comp said ''hey, you like John Cena? I’m John Cena.''
The kid said: ''no you’re not.'' He said, 'yeah I am.'' I said ''yeah he
is'' we started fake wrestling and the kids we super stoked. Now, every time
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We contacted a house and a larger older woman
answered said wait a minute. Then, 30 seconds later we heard a voice from the
window say ''over here.'' We went over and found her in a mermaid pose on the
couch right by the window. We talked to her for a bit and then took down her
name and address. When we asked her what her name was she said ''uh...'' </span>couldn't<span style="font-size: small;"> remember. Pretty funny stuff. </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08079808469127363755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859939264809642621.post-80901777658854899532014-08-25T23:21:00.002-07:002014-08-25T23:21:35.340-07:00Scorpions and Garbage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A dog started
following us this week. We named him Casper; tiny little adorable thing. Well,
he followed us for about ten minutes and became my best friend. We past a house
and two bigger bully dogs tried to eat him, and I on pure instinct lurched at
them and shouted: NO! MI PERRO! I looked up and saw that I had scared several
Mexican citizens in the street. They were looking at me..... We contacted them
and acted as if nothing had happened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trapped a scorpion in the house. I looked up online what we should feed
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<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The pointed
stinger and body shape may have earned the scorpion a bad reputation, but in
truth among the 2000 known scorpion species, only forty scorpions have venom strong
enough to kill humans. Most of the poisonous scorpions are found South America,
India, Middle East, Mexico and Africa. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some interesting several weeks. My last comp and current have excelled in their
lives. In sports, in school, socially and everything they have done. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It seems like the harder my companions have worked in life the more enjoyable the time is with them.
They know more about the world; the conversation is better; they are funnier,
more disciplined... I have enjoyed knowing all of my comps, but some are
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fun to charge areas. You get to meet a ton of new people...... but you have to
meet a ton of new people; if you know what I mean. But with one week we
are already all buds here. Last night we had a family night with two
families that were recently baptized. We made banana pancakes and really just
enjoyed the time joking around. But we also shared a message for a few minutes
and they really opened up. I have learned that people are converted by
the way they feel and not just by fact or arguments. They want a friend; someone
that will understand them. It was a very enjoyable week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had transfers today. E. Hernandez and I knew that we would
only have two weeks together because he is finishing the mish off and will train.
But it really fun to know that I was heading out before hand because we both
gave it all we had to really enjoy the two week and last night I was able to
say goodbye to all of the families. We never get to do that because they tell
at 1030 at night and we are gone in the morning. There were some pretty tender
moments, it actually surprised me how much loved they sent me off with.
But, I didn’t cry.... = ) </span></div>
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earlier days on the mission - it will be a good time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week we met a 20 year old kid that told us that he was
a rapper. My comp dropped a beat and the kid dropped what was the equivalent of
the song of buddy the elf. Sang what came to his mind in a rhyme. Nailed it! Then
he was telling us how to spell something and said K as in .... queso. We
almost busted up. But he was a good kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We ate chili habaneras’ which are supposed to be the spiciest.
They weren’t actually that hot. I think that because my mustache is growing so
quickly now and I am becoming more Mexican and can handle the chili.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have been visiting a family for several weeks and have
seen great changes. When we first got there only the dad would listen to us.
The next time the son started to listen and then the daughter. After listening for
a short time they would normally leave the room. But the progress was visible
every time we showed up. One night we got there and they were all very stressed
for the economic problems they face. We talked about the purpose of life and
the spirit had a definite presence. My comp repeated a saying here – “Don’t
tell God how large your problem is; tell your problem how large God is. I
expounded on that and there was a moment when the mother, who was listening in,
had that moment of understanding. She said: “It seems like we have been
drowning in a cup of water.” Since then they have all listened in and even
invited friends and family members to listen in. They walked several miles to
get to church yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We talked to the wife of that family one day and she told us
that her husband used to be a terrible alcoholic but since the day we showed up
he has completely stopped. They all look so much happier now. </span></div>
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near our house. It’s a weird environment because we teach them and people are
always entering the store and one of the kids goes to attend to the customers.
But we still feel the spirit and as we talk, the surrounding distractions melt
away. The mom has cried several times during our discussions - which is kind of
what we are looking for as missionaries. They cry and we shoot our hand in the
air in a victory fist pump. The son is a fun little guy. This week he grabbed
my sunscreen from my backpack and I don’t know if he didn’t know what it was or
if he was just smelling it to see how it smelled, but I was talking to his dad
and I heard the cream shoot out and we looked over and he had his face covered
in globs of the creams, especially up his nose. He has this super shocked
facial expression that said, "crap what just happened to me?" I was
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My comp and I super tight. We have been running every
morning. That will be something I will be looking forward to when I am home and
on the prowl looking for future wifey. She has to go running with me. The thing
is I have only been able to run maybe 5 times in the last year, apart from
running from dogs and trying to catch buses. Well the first day we ran together
I was super excited and I was like Captain America when he turned from being a
dweeb to mister muscles. I jumping over things and pushed myself super hard.
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into a bucket with his shirts than used the chuga chuga (wooden pole with half
of a 2 liter bottle screwed to one end). It was late so went to bed leaving the
clothes in the bucket, which we do a lot. Guess we used the wrong bucket or
someone left a pen in the shirt because the shirts came out with a strong blue
color. We just starred at them for a while. ha</span><br />
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Gaffigan stuff f that you put in my package about lobster. While I was reading
it, crazily my comp said, without knowing what I was reading, "I’m hungry.
I feel like sea food; maybe lobster." haha Actually
maybe it was for spending too much time together but that would happen all the
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to get my comps knee checked out. It’s about an hours’ journey. The last time
we had gone to the wrong doctor and the detour cost us 2-3 hours. This time we got
there on the first try. The doctor is a member and an awesome lady. We were cracking jokes while she was checking
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During the testimony meeting
one older lady apparently didn’t get to share her testimony, but luckiyl she
said the closing prayer. She started talking about Joseph Smith and saying in
the prayer how she was grateful for it then kind of went into detail about it
and it turned into a full blown testimony about the church. Ha, a subliminal
message to the investigators. She ended by saying "this is my
testimony and I share it in the name of .... amen. =D There
is a part of the other side of heaven that is very similar. My comps opened our eyes
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about 80 years old, and went back later to teach her and her "son" as
we thought. Well turns out that this 32ish guy is her husband.
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out. Sucker ha. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After 3 months together, my bud Lobo is heading out. He is a super solid guy.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Actually it is really cool. He worked through some stuff about a year ago of
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the mish - sooo Im pretty excited. My new comp is from Guatemala. He is a stud.
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storm that over took us 20 seconds after I took the photo. This week was crazy
with weather. Right after the sand storm a huge rainstorm hit us. We have
a small patio back yards it filled with six inches of water and started
entering the house. The houses and streets are definitely not built for
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somewhat dramatic. The older daughter threw a fit and didn´t want to go and support
her mom and sister. This got the dad flared up and he started making claims
that it would tear the family apart and that Nely wasn’t ready because she didn’t
act well (sweetest little girl I have ever met). Eternal credit to Maricela;
she said that she had a commitment with God and was going with or without her
family. All but the other daughter went. When we saw them Nely was crying and
there was definitely some contention so we started talking with them and they
all calmed down and the husband agreed to support her baptism. The other stress
was that we had arranged to have someone go early to fill of the font and he
did, but then an hour before the baptism a different hermano saw that the water
was sort of (not really) dirty and emptied it. We got there and had to fill it
and it barely finished 5 mins before the ordinance; but it did make it!
One of the highlights was that they had Eulalio share his testimony and
he gave a rousing 2 minute hand-hitting the podium sermon. It actually was very
strong, and he told me after that he was shaking he was so nervous to give it. I’m
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would rain. We were in a lesson and large drops started falling slowly and then
within 1 min it was as if there was a massive bucket that had been turned
upside down in the heavens. It doesn’t rain a lot here in Torreon but
when it does.... It is nuts. It only lasted 20 min but all of the streets were
completely flooded and water started entering the houses and cars. It was
actually fantastic at the climax of the rain we were sharing the first vision
with the family so it was super intense! Our voices rose with the sound of the
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everyday like a big boy and told me that I have a baby face. My comp died
laughing and tells everyone.... haha punk. I am thinking about declaring
war like I did with Cate after she pantsed me in public and was then hit by a
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baptismal interview with a man who is an ex-soldier. But about ten
years ago he became paralyzed in an accident. He is a salesman and knows his
trade. At one point in the interview I rubbed my eyes because my contacts were
dry and he took advantage and started trying to advertise certain products that
he sells. Ha, apparently he does it with the elders every time he visits them.
It was a very fun interview. We had it in his house, and it took us an hour to
walk there. On the way we took a short cut via a way that we had never
taken before and a huge farm was there that was hidden away from view by tumble weeds
and brush - a fun green surprise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and totally dominated them ants in our apartment. Ha - it was actually a
great victory. The problem was that the mosquitoes heard that the ants had vacated the real estate and they moved in. They particularly like the Latins.
At nights they went almost exclusively after my comp and he was withering
around while I was snoring away, and I woke completely refreshed and looked
over and he looked at me appearing completely exhausted and I said
"what?" Ha – that is why you shouldn’t eat sugar before
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the "church´s most wanted" list. I sent a pic of one of those emails
I had received a year ago. Well, last week they moved next door to the elders
in our District. Ha - they aren’t super dangerous but it says watch out. So, we
will be watching out. They go to church and try to sell stuff to the members.
They use the same names as before. The page says that it should be posted on
the bulletin of the ward. It isn’t currently; but imagine walking into church
and seeing your face on a warning announcement. I suggested in the ward council
meeting that we blow it up huge and put in on a cardboard frame and put
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here. She is member but hasn't gone to church for 15 years. He was showing me
how he used to stretch and do push-ups. He didn't want to go to church and
said several times that he would not go. Then I asked at the end of the lesson
if we could take a photo together. He was so flattered that he said: "what
time is church," and said he wanted to go. Sure enough walked
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always super green. Meish is all like "wow, how incredible. You ate
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had an interview with a fourteen year old girl that is member but they had lost
her file in the church, which happens a bit, and so she had to be rebaptized.
What a sweet deal! Free sin sweep. Get out of jail free card.
I tried to convince her to wait to until she was twenty because she
probably hasn’t done anything in these tender 14 years; Just wait till you are
in a Mexican high school... (just kidding I didn´t really try to
convince her to do that) She was really mature but also a bit shy
about being questioned by a twenty year old boy. Interviews have been a
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have had some real progress with several investigators. We had been waiting for
between 13-20 in church yesterday but in the morning the messages started
coming in of the sick stomachs and inability to leave the house, etc. . We went
to pick up a family and an old man to take them. The old man had spoken to his Christian
neighbors after we had left and they had convinced him that the Book of Mormon
was false and he had promised that he would go to church with them. As we were
talking to him the woman left the house and stated that they would pass by in a
few minutes to take him with them. The other family: the parents are less
active members and feel nervous and guilty because of the way they live their
lives. They had left early in the morning to go shopping and had left their
kids to tell us. But we still had 6 solid investigators show up and one
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We
had transfers in the mish here last night. Luckily we didn´t, but we told one
señora investigator that I might be heading out yesterday to say goodbye in
case and she said that she was going to cry at that thought because she thinks
of us as her sons. I have built a lot of friendships in this area and really
will miss it when I take off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
was reading in the Book of Moses of his confrontation with Satan and his
splitting question: -where is your glory? He needed to be covered with
glory to even see God and then was left exhausted. Satan was nothing after that
and easily seen. I had read and heard the passage many times before but it had
new meaning after my months here. The filth of Satan is everywhere. Every
street corner presents magazines full of smut, foul language, and explicit
songs. Sin is unashamed. You don’t have to look for it, it comes to you. You
don’t need altered eyes to see it; you need to alter your eyes to not see it.
That alteration often comes in the form of looking the ground while walking.
On the other hand I have had to spend hours and hours every day studying,
praying, analyzing and serving to have even a part of the glory of God brought
to me so that I can really see what is His and what He wants. Without that
light I will become complete blind, like many of the people that I try to serve
every day. Blind to what really matters; blind to the spiritual architecture that
is structured to make us happy and to the real needs of others including our
own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just watched the Powell video. Out of all the families in
the worlds, my family, as it turns out, just happens to be the best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love yáll <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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