January 26, 2009 - First Week with Elder Heldt

Pretty Park in Guadalajara

Our Cool Gym!!!!

Elder Heldt....You are Awesome!!!!

You better shave that off!!!

Jake with Hma. Raquel and her daughter???

Maybe Jake with Hma. Raquel's Mother???

P-Day at a REAL soccer game...lots of Elders!!!

This is FUN.....

Check out this view!!!!

Having a good time at the game!!

Construction in Mexico...

We WALK and WALK and WALK!!!!!!

This weeks really not going to be too different from the norm, but maybe a little bit more spunky, I've given up on writing letters. Lol Sorry, its just not going to happen. lol. We go to the gym now in the mornings, and it really hurts, then we're not really diligent with time. Lol. We get home relatively late now too. Our area, is really large. I've mentioned large areas with these last too. But search for Lomas Bellenes or the Mesa Colorado near Constitucion. I actually can't describe it better than that, lol sorry. Somewhere on your Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico map its there. Start searching! Its up north though, I know that. Anyway. Today went by really fast too. We slept in mostly because I haven't hardly slept this week because of a little stuffyness or something. So today was finally, ahhh... no chance am I getting out of bed. 7:24 I got up. Lol. Went to the gym got home at like 10, chh.. Ugh. My chest is sore. These last three days... I haven't been able to walk! Jueves, (Thursday) was bad!!! Both of us were dead, Friday was worse!!!!!!! Saturday was sore and stairs laughed at our presence. Then yesterday was a little recoop. Today is fine(ally). But we got home cleaned up and left for the centro. Met up with a few elders, I bought a tie. I'm actually out of money, but I pulled a little out of my account. Actually a good chunk. You might want to check it out. Then we went to SIRLOIN STOCKADE!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I treated my companion ; ) Its his birthday Thursday: I'm going to buy a cake probably too. I've found a bunch of stuff to buy for friends in fact. This is a horrible tangent, even for me, but our gym, is awesome. All the walls are graffitied super heroes, totally ripped! Lol, huge biceps and calves and legs, everything. Spider man, iron man, the hulk some aztecs warriors and ¨Colosso¨, the gym mascot, lol. A caveman. With a loin cloth and ridiculously muscular. Lol, I took one picture, of the outside. But I'm going to take more. They sell shirts and I'm going to get one or two. NICK WOULD LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVE IT! Lol. The coke factory next to my old area has a store that sells coke stuff, that I wouldn't mind picking up something for David because he loves Coke so much! Daniel gets a peso. Lol. He can buy the pirated DVDs here in Saint Jon of God. Lol. Hma. Raquel...I still think about that. She didn't come to our ward like she said she was. I hope she comes by some week. As long as she went to church over there, tis fine, but I was looking forward to seeing her. I probably said this already but her brother and sister in law live over here in our area. Oh yeah, our area is sooooo large. Its an hour bus ride from the half way mark to the other side. Yes the bus goes soe funky streets but still. If we had a car it would be a lot shorter. But... this is bad. The Mesa Colorado is cobble stone streets by the highway... but as you walk a little deeper its all dirt. I haven't been to the deep part, but I want to plan a day out there. The south of our area we don't even go to because its so rich and I guess they've attempted it already. I have a few ganas to pray for each section of our area and think of something we can do. We're a little slow workers, we dont do the best job with the rules, we're not bad missionaries by any mark, but we could definitely pick things up. Its hard though cause he goes home so soon, but he really wants to go out hard. I'm happy about my time with him. We've had rough moments, this week has been a ride for me still. But we popped right back in and its great. Nah, in all truth I love the guy. I just want to show it in a cool he's my friend way. I'm not very good at expressing myself, the things that have happened or the things I think. I don't know. Ok yeah. . Moving on... Lol. Everything sounds good at home, we have to go now to make it for District class. I'm wearing my new ghetto tie, lol. So I'll see you later! I loaded new pictures on walmart if you want to check em out! Next week...-Jake