Septembe 1, 2009

Hey Mom and Dad! Sorry to concern you like that...lol, but here I am. Yesterday was weird. We went to a ciber to write but my comp only read he didnt write. Elders Feik Mendoza and myself went together and Elders perez (my companion), Elder Romero and Elder Saenz went together, two groups of three. We just happened to meet up in the same ciber though and Perez told me he read but didn´t respond so I said well I´m not going to respond, so I don´t have to wait on him went we go to the ciber in Cihuatán (our area). We went into Manzanillo Sunday night. They were going to have the usual district class on Monday so we made plans to go. Then at about 7:30 or so they called us and said no class, because zone conference is on Wednesday, we´ll just do the class afterwards. We went anyway, we both wanted to go. So we´re there and we should have returned at 12 or... 1 ish, but we left at 5:30...got here at 6 something and started washing and then left for our appointment who wasn´t home and decided to visit Jorge and Maricsa our golden couple whose not married nor divorced with former conyugent (is that a word??) Anyway, I just put my colored clothes in the chugga-chugga. Chugga-chugga is a type of washing machine here, it looks like a giant soda can and is the basic spinning washing machine motion only. But because its fun to say AND write the word Chugga-chugga I keep saying chugga-chugga. Anyway, the Prado family lets us borrow their chugga-chugga every Monday now. It´s awesome! So that´s why we didn´t write yesterday and we´re writing during our companionship study. Unfortunately, neither of us mind using this time for other things. We´re already sick of each other. Well I´ll explain later my new mind set that I took on yesterday, which is a blessing from our Heavenly Father.
The first week was the first week. No problems there. The first week everyone starts off without the finest clue what´s going to happen. Tuesday of the next week was a little more interesting.
Actually let me get through a few good things. The first good thing is they're cooking tacos in here right now and it smells really good seriously only in Mexico do they do some of these things. Hop on a charter bus and some guy comes back to sell you a ticket, cook some tacos in a cyber cafe. Have a table in the middle of a dirt road in the middle of an suburb street selling tacos. Hitchhiking between pueblos. There´s alot of unique Mexico only stuff I take for granted and it´s really beautiful right now. It´s been raining the last 2 days and we´ll see about today, it´s cloudy again, occasional sprinkle (sprinkle has a funny term here in Spanish, Serenando means sprinkling but a common term is chispeando which literally translated means to chip as in chocolate chips, little chips of rain!, = D I love it!). Literally the mission is an awesome experience. There are so many things that with a positive mind should be just awesome! Like all of what I just said. That and this area is wicked cool. I love the members, I love our little casa de oracion. A lot of change needs to be made and we need to start finding more people, but it´s a cool area! They say paisaje, which is like...wow, what is the word in English?? Ok, Cihuatlán has a beautiful paisaje, which means like the trees and rivers and (well kind of the climate) and ocean and all that jazz! It´s gorgeous, seriously and I plan to backpack it here with a buddy sometime! Lol! That´s an idea I've had actually for about a month now, but my mind as you know has been preoccupied with other things...I want to first return here to Guadalajara with one buddy, like Ben or someone, they need to speak basic Spanish, and we just backpack it, one backpack with a few changes of clothes and our wallet. We go around all the areas here in bus, pidiendo ride, etc. Jiji. (Hehe) Then luego luego, you two and I and Josh and Erin or whoever and my buddies we come and do the whole ´hotel´thing stay in Grand Bay! WOOHOO! Lol. With a few more bags of clothes and stuff, right?! Well moving on, here´s the conflict, I´m trying to be positive, but I´ve been uniquely concerned. I´m still stale, I think differently still. I don´t know if it´s good or bad.
I´m fine right now, I´m ´happy´, or my current equivilant to it. That´s why I put ´´s, lol. Just kind of weird. I don´t know if it´s good or bad, I´ve been wracking my this week on what´s good or bad, for example. This condition, is it just some kind of preparation that God is giving me, allowing me to padecer (go through). Just part of the process, wait it out with a positive attitude, just keep working. Or is it a problem? Is it something that shouldn´t be there. I don´t know what is right or wrong. I get so caught up here in the mission on what is right, what should I do at any given moment, what do I say what do I do. There´s a good better best here. I have confused myself more than anything. Oh wow it smells good in here. I thought yesterday though not to worry about that so much, do your best, that´s what´s required, were not going to be perfect and craps going to happen we´re going to make mistakes. Repent and do my best. See how that works out this week, if I can remember = P that´s a problem, lol, forgetting alot of times.
I´m sorry, here´s a quick interjection. I am CURRENTLY staring at a seven year old dropping his 9 year old sister off at school DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE. not a scooter...not a little toy motorcycle. A MO-TOR-CY-CLE! That happens so much here, the youngest I saw was like 5 years old. Anyway. I didn´t have the power headache I had 2/3 weeks ago! That´s good and Im grateful for that. I keep forgetting the second o in good. It comes out funny without that second o.
Now .... likie I was going to say 30 minutes ago about my companion. Lol, this is going to shock you. Allow me to read several notes I took during the experience. ¨He´s honestly condemning everything I do¨ Tuesday Morning or Wednesday morning he DEDICATED his study time to condemn me. He studied and used scriptures to show me why I´m wrong. what I do wrong. How I pray wrong, how I study wrong. INCREDIBLE! Seriously I took what i could of worth and let the rest slip away. It was insane. We started our companionship study compartiendo(sharing) the things we learned with each other. I said something I learned to which he responds, maybe, kind of, I guess you could get that. And then unleashes fire and brimgstone fron the book of Genesis on my head with his ´apostolic doctrine´, he studied faith and came to the conclusion that no one in the entire world has faith, that´s it´s impossible to have faith and when someone questioned him he exploded fighting his position. Well, to put it in perspective, he can´t be wrong. He knows the scritures better than anyone else. Hno. (hermano = brother) Monroy was talking to us about some doctirne principal and while he´s talking Elder Perez is saying outloud no, that´s not true, no. Sighing, rolling his eyes. I´m sorry I shouldn´t be listing faults like this. Just some amazing stuff. Who I am I to judge, right? It´s hard for me because we get to the house and plan, and I'm pretty sure he hates planning I love planning, lol, instead of describing the situation I feel the spirit slink away and I´d much rather have it right now. Lol, I´ll just say there´s no support, instead of helping me just says whatever and then later critics me. Curious situation. That´s 55 minutes of pure writing! Lol, you have a nice epistle to read here, lol so I´m going to let you do that This Ciber´s expensive too I´m used to 10 pesos an hour, which is less than a buck actually, and this is 20. Wow, how can I complain, that´s like a 1.50... woooo....lol. It´s just cause I´m a missionary and have 700 pesos for the entire month. Lol. Well, I have 11 months, a year from the time I entered the MTC. = ) thank you for your prayers and your support. To answer a few questions, Dad honesty I forgot, that and I was really tired then, I have a few notes. It was interesting it was just a giant question and answer session and he´d take little side notes on the giants. But cool, did learn. He is an apostle of God by the way, served his mission in South America so he spoke Spanish, lol. And I haven´t gotten a package yet, but until zone conference I´m sure I´ll get it, lol. Oh by the way, when I said lost the pants and shoes I meant their just bien discompuesto (broke) lol, big rips were found in the pants and the shoes have hit rock bottom. Lol I had the pants fixed, i have big patches on my butt, lol. But the shoes are a lost cause! Well I love you mom and dad, more than anything.
-Jake Taylor