July 27, 2009

You said whew, I said eww... it rhymes and it fits my current position. We had our weekly Monday routine of getting up at 5:30 to catch a bus on time for Manzanillo, but we got here in Cihuatlán at 11 today! It´s a record!!!!!! We celebrated by buying a $12 pizza. I could only eat 3 pieces but it was quite delightful, and I had some Jamaica water that came in a cup.... basically a beerstein, a giant glass mug that was amazing, I have a picture but no camera cord still ... lol, oh well. NI MODO! This week was interesting, Elder Harding and I continue working, we´re having success and punching it out. We get along good too, I´m not going to say he´s not a total pain in the butt sometimes though. Most days are cool, the thing is we think about the same random stuff alot. There´s several examples of that, but I´m not going to get into it. I´m looking at the screen saver next to me. It´s that old fish tank screen saver that computers have, that really looks like real fish. It´s so beautiful, I can´t believe I took this thing for granted .... i just like staring at it. Coral ... three little fish just ... swimming around... Man it´s tough right now. This week I got to the point where I couldn't´t even pray. I did, but it felt just like I was talking to myself, I´m so grateful that God´s helping me out of that one right now. It´s hell, hell hell... I can´t express in any degree how awkward ad painful it is. I´m so insignificant, honestly. I´m not useless, but my abilities are so petite. The greatness of God is superb, but I feel so distanced from Him right now. I fasted, I pray, I try to follow the rules, but i feel so empty. I'm not going to say the Holy Ghost is´t with my right now, because I still feel it is watching over us, but in terms of guiding me, I feel stale and empty. Elder Harding's an absolute stud, he gets along with everybody, certain people. Lol. But he´s a good guy, he can teach good, he studies well...I know he has his trials, but he gets through them, he has faith and testimony. I don´t know what I did to mess up so bad, I don´t know. I don´t imagine what I´m going through is even bad, even hard, but for me it´s very challenging. It challenges everything. I don´t know more to say.I do have some questions and comments though to see if you can help me. I was wondering if you could send some pictures of the office like from outside and the courtyard, to show people (and bring back good memories = D ). Some of you guys too! I have plenty here for ya´ll I just need that cord and we´re set! Here´s an interesting question. We have an investigator who´s getting baptized on Friday, she was going to get baptized this last Saturday but was ... believe it or not... on her period, so we postponed it, now, we went up to visit her and her ex boyfriend came up to say hi, guy lived outside of LA for his whole life then got deported here so talks to us in English, but said that she´s pregnant with his kid. Now I don´t know ´Female Anatomy like I do a missionary discussion, but is that possible period and pregnant? Just curious, cause I think this guys out of his mind... well he is, but about that point too. Next off, i have something you might want to try out... I´m assuming that I¨m going to be here for awhile...so, if you´d like here´s our address Sixto Ruelas #192Cihuatlán 48970Cihuatlán, Jalisco C.R. 48971MexicoI´m not sure what everything there means and what´s not necessary, we just got a letter by mistake but that was our address on there, just a different name. A few interesting things that happened this week, a crazy Catholic guy driving an 18 wheeler beer truck gave us a ride, we were hitchhiking, we hitchhike everywhere. Buses are so expensive for us. This is proving quit effective! That and we were knocking and found a guy from St. George Utah, Mexican, only speaks Spanish, but he´s from St. George and knows the Mormons, he doesn´t seem to interested tough, loves the church ... just ... not interested. He did however give us coconuts, walked over to his tree with a giant stick and a claw on top, took´em down and chopped´em open with a machete and we had coconuts. All good. Super cool guy.We´re working with the branch here, it´s interesting. It´s getting better and better all the time, I know they´ll have a chapel here soon also. I love the house of prayer here now too. It´s great, lol. Just a few families, but we´re going to get that up. Reactivation is a toughy here, everybody says yes, yeah I´ll be there, yeah´ll I´ll be there. Oh next week, yeah next week. Oh yeah something came up but I´m there this Sunday, oh yeah this Sunday for sure. They never show. Lol. We had 9 people that said they´d try and go this last Sunday, all investigators, and no new people showed. Our investigators with Baptismal dates did, that´s good! 3 1/2 people. (One´s 8 yrs. old) Well that´s the jist of it, give a shout out to all the guys, I don´t know if you´ve seen´em lately. David´s written me a few times, I love David, he´s such a good guy! Ben too i think once. Anyway, give´em a call or something! Catch ya´ later!-E. Jake D. Taylor