October 12, 2009

Hey Mama! I may just get my goal of 30 minuts on the computer I´m only at 19 if that´s true! BLESSINGS! WOOHOOO!! Lol, the zone´s doing awesome right now, the usual zone has about 12 or 14 missionaries, we have 8, lol. And we´re number 4, I believe, it listed the best three and then we had a special mention, so I think we´re number 4, with only 4 companionships! Lol, we´re all really excited, but we have to do better, we have a goal of 26 bautismos this month and we´re going to get it, Elder Nichols and I have a goal of 5. We´re teaching a few people right now but we´re going to keep going, keep seeking keep finding! It´s all good
Crap, maybe I won´t make 30 minutes, lol, a guy just started talking to Elder Nichols, my companion here in English. He´s typing his parents and he just walks up, Hey, how´s it going. He´s speaks pretty well, actually. He just gave us his address and his number and his work address. He´s in the other elders area, we think. We´ll see.
Well I forgot what was going on... I haven´t thought about much that´s going on over there. I´m surprised David hasn´t written me lately, I expected him to write me earlier. Oh, there´s something, lol. I have been craving good food for a while now. Lol, I just finished a year. I miss it...lol. Oh well, lol. The soda here is even weird, I was a HUGE soda fan, but not anymore. I´ll tell you what though, a good Mug rootbeer, or a mountain dew, a Sierra Mist, Dr. P w/ cherry and Vanilla. ... and lime. Lol, a Coney Dog, some Rally´s burgers (checkers to be official now) There´s a lot, actually any restaurant at all sounds good right now. We´re going to tacos or something maybe. I have to give a talk at Zone Conference tomorrow and I have not done it yet. I will, we´re going on the errands now and doing the ´hay que haceres´ afterwards at home. The Elderes from Sayula are here and they want to do certain things also. There´s Chinese food here! Served by Asians, it´s awesome! Man if you thought they had a weird English accent, glory, hear it in Spanish. It´s not that bad, but it´s just not something you see everyday! I´m kind of craving after another picture of the guys, see what´s changed. An entire year. How different do they look? I was so excited to hear from Ben the other day. I´m really happy right now. Lol. Linkin Park just came on, lol. Woops, there´s nothing I can do! Lol, I need to stop glancing at the screen next to me though, innappropriate advertisements.
This song is awesome!
I want a thorough update. Sit down and write a 10 page detailed letter and I will to and I promise that I´ll send it soon! Well let me tell you about David and Jorge and I´ll get out of here;
Now Jorge we´re still working with, we see him like 2x a week, maybe. Working like that doesn´t allow progress. People think oh, my time is blah blah blah, I´m so busy, come back in 10 days. ¨What??!!?!?! No no no no no, how about tomorrow.¨
Ugh, I just saw the screen next to me again.
He seems a little preocupied with something. Concerned. He´s still interested, we challenged him to baptism, he was in a hurry to leave at the moment, and he said ´well it takes a lot of preparation right?´ So we have that one in the balance. we want to teach him and his 3 sons, who have interest in coming to the church. This Sunday I feel we´re going to go and get them up and dressed and carry them over there. Fast and testimony meeting was awesome, I had a chance to bear my testimony and just being in the room was overwhelming. Spirit strong strong strong. He believes I feel in Joseph Smith but we´re going to watch Joseph Smith prophet of the Restoration with him and then continue with the Plan of Salvation and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the kids are funny. WE walked in there the other day, they look similar the two younger ones. Israel and Manuel. Israel is super active. Football (soccer), running around, likes to move and participate. Manuel is super listo (smart). One time when we went over there, there were two young women sitting on their couch. I didn´t recognize them, thought they were friends of theirs or something, then I saw the book they carried. It was asome book that had a picture of the bible on it. It couldn´t be anything good.
They were JW´s. Testigos de Jehovah. Jehovah´s Witnesses.
We asked if Jorge was home. the lady answered in a bitterly sweet voice, of course, of course one second. Jorge answered the door looking like he was having a heart attack. We said we just stopped by to say hi, we were heading to another appointment, but he invited us in and we went back into the kitchen to talk. While walking through we greeted the young TJ´s (testigos de Jehovah) and said hi to Israel and Manuel, but like I would with my buddies, you know hi five and ´dude what´s up´ it was hilarious. We get along super good w/ them, and walked back. We started talking and shared a little though and learned that Manuel, this 13 year old kid invited them in to listen. This kids insane. He invited them in to listen and was listening, studying! Lol. We left before they finished up and said bye and same thing, ´hey man, later dude! See you later, you´re going to church on Sunday right´ Yeah of course! LOL!
Sad, sad TJ´s.
The next one really quick is David. Saturday we were up in the East part of our area which is approaching the mountains there, if you have a map or something, it´s called Lomas Altas. Basically all of our appointments and the people we were going to visit fell, so we thought of something we could do before we went home, to use time wisely. I didn´t want to head back yet. It was about 8 or a little after. Like 8:15. Not a whole lot you can do. So I thought of a recent convert family all of a sudden, so we headed over there. But in the journey we got Super lost. Ridiculously lost. We went almost straight. All of a sudden I have to pee so we go looking for a little hole in the houses. Every once in a while there´s a little gap where there´s no house, so I found a little corn patch and wizzed over there in the corner as we waited for cars to pass. Kept walking and then all of a sudden. I see this giant fake palm tree. A giant fake gold palm tree. Wait a second. That´s in the COMPLETE opposite direction of which we were currently walking. After x minutes of being lost. All of a sudden we´re 2 blocks from this family. Well it´s too late now, let´s head home, says my companion. I say let´s just say hi see how they´re doing and head home; Now that we know where we are.... we went wasn´t even home somebody was watching the house. Then we heads a little down started walking down the street. Somehow we were right then exactly where we were about 40 or 30 minutes ago. Somehow we didn´t realize it. All of a sudden we hear a ´chh-chh, chh-chh´ which is a sound they do here to get your attention usually.
Quick note, the timer here in the ciber is jumping by 4 minutes...that´s not cool...
We stop and look to the right and there is this little old man in a wheel chair. He told us first off that missionaries had stopped with him before. Then all of a sudden they stopped. He knew about the BOok of Mormon and the prophet Joseph Smith and the Plan of Salvation and wanted to go to church. He told us that he wsas going to go anyway but in that moment he found us. He had already gone to the church 10 we thought and the branch president thought he was a member, but he´s not, he was never baptized. The missionaries about 2 years ago never ever taught him baptism, or so he tells us. He told us he feels baptism is what he needs, what will help him free his mind. Or help him get over his difficulties right now. He´s .. glory 60 years...70 would be better. His mom died about a year ago and his sister just 3 weeks ago and he has arthritis and has to use a wheel chair, for the pain. Nobody lives with him and nobody takes care of him and sometimes he goes up to 3 days without eating. His sister took care of him but de repente died. We ate with a sister yesterday, oh goodness...
I have to tell you that too...
She gave us a little food to carry to him and we dropped it off with him. We wheeled him to and from Church and he enjoyed it. Stayed the three hours. Well I guess he wasn´t going to escape... He wants to get baptized and we´re helping him out. It´s a miracle, God helping his children.
Now the other story. I was obligated yesterday to ask you if Bill... yes your dear brother would be interested in a hard work, professional chef of a woman. As we ate with the Hermana yesterday she asked if she could ask a serious serious question... if we knew anybody older single men. I mentioned my lovely crack case uncles. And she was hooked. She wants to know if Bill would be interested. She´s happy to travel there or if he´d like to travel here. She is the former owner of the oldest restaurant in Cd. Guzman and is known for her wonderful skills as cook and chef. Hard working and single, Lola is looking for a man.
Ok I did my work... now I´m not obligated...
Thank you! I love you more than anything, literally! Even Nintendo...but it´s close! Lol, jk- it´s not even close!
I was going to write a few things for your birthday but I think I´m going to reserve them for a hand written letter.
Love,
-Jake