San Vicente
Well, I knew you were going somewhere but I didn’t know you were going to France!! That kind of threw me off a little bit. Who all went and are you going to see that satanic thing where they hang a guy on a cross?? Well, I hope you have fun. I can’t wait until after when we can go on a family trip all together again.
Well, this week was alright. There is an American family here and they are leaving this week to go back to Utah. They gave me their email and number, you should give them a call when you get back. They are sweet and we ate with her every other week. Give them a call.
Well, I figured out this week that if we don’t set goals we will never get anywhere. So I set a goal this week to read all of the New Testament. It is going to be sweet and then after, the Old Testament. And during, I am still reading the BOM of course.
Well, at our baptism on Saturday we had two that we were going to baptized and then one little kid. Then as we started baptizing like three other kids came to the font with their moms and they were like, I am getting baptized too. We were like uh, we had no clue about this and that just goes to show the great organization that there is down here is Mexico. So I ended up baptizing another little girl who I don’t even know. It was kind of funny and reminded me of the waters of Mormon when people just kept coming and coming. haha.
I have gained so many more witnesses this week about Joseph Smith. I was just listening to a song about him as I was getting ready for the day and just listening to the words, I just stopped and felt something different. Just little things like that. And then we were watching the Joe Smith movie with an investigator and after we all said that we felt the chills during the first vision. It was amazing.
Well mom, I got sick this week. I had a temperature of 100.5!! So I went home and took a cold shower and slept all that night and in the morning it was still there a little bit. My head was throbbing and it hurt sometimes to even open my eyes. I called Sister Saucedo and she is like superwoman. She knows what to do. She gave me some pills and I started to feel better. But the cool thing was I asked my companion for a blessing and it seemed like right as he put his hands on my head the pain started to leave slowly. It was still there for a while after but I had the faith that if it was the will of the Lord, He would heal me so I would be able to go and work, and He did!!!
Ok mom, I was supposed to ask you this last week but I forgot. President Saucedo wants me to ask you 'what do you think of me as a missionary and how do you think that I am as a missionary?' Just a few questions to get ya thinkin’.
Guess what Mike, I totally saw my first black dude I am pretty sure in my whole mission. And he was from the states. Maybe from MI. Just as a typical gangsta would, he first blew a big puff of smoke directly in our faces and then said, how y’all doin’? hahaha. I started cracking up because it just threw me off to hear something like that. And I began to think about your mission in MI and how it must have been with all of them up there. Haha, that was pretty awesome I thought.
Another funny story is that some drunks came up to us and said they wanted to hear the word of God just as all of them do. So we said, why don’t we help you and take your alcohol so you can’t get wasted and feel like crap but he told us no. So right there they were just starting to drink the bottle. We went around to corner for 10 minutes and then came back and the two guys were both laying down on the ground as if they were dead. I started cracking up, because 10 minutes earlier they had just started drinking. That is not uncommon here. You see guys on the street all the time just laying there drunk out of their minds.
Soccer is life for everyone down here in Mexico. They played against Italy a couple of days ago and everyone just misses work to go watch the game, they don’t even care. And then Mexico won so that night outside of our house they were just downing the ballenas like no other. Ballena means whale, it’s like a big bottle of beer. Haha. But yeah, maybe that’s why so many people don’t have jobs because they would rather watch a soccer game than go to work.
One of the Elders left this week and I was talking to him his last night and asked him how he felt. He said he felt good and calm, because he knew he had given it his all. I started to think about the last day of my mission, if I would be able to say that same thing. I sat down and made a goal that on the last day of my mission I will be able to get down on my knees and tell my Heavenly Father that I gave 110%, without regrets. I don’t want to feel like I could have done more or something like that. I would feel like I had failed my Heavenly Father in this calling that he had given me. So I set a goal and put exactly what I need to do and why I am doing it and everything. I am going to laminate it and have it for the rest of my mission.
Well yes, I am finally leaving Vallarta. I am going to the city and I am leaving today at 12:00 pm. I will get there at like 4. My zone is called Montezuma but I don’t know what part exactly I am in. My comp’s name is Elder Sevil. Nobody knows him. It’s not so hot there so that should be good. Well, I figured out that I am pretty sure I packed my suitcases for like four years. I have so much crap that I am never going to use. The 4 bed sheets, never. Only use one or two. And a bunch of clothes because we never get to use normal clothes. So I think this change I am going to send more clothes home. Maybe even one of my suits, what do you think about that? Because I really hardly use like half of the stuff that I have.
Mom, really I could do without crap food because I am trying to cut back but if you want me to come back as flubber , well that’s your call. But cut it down at least a little please. I love you all so much and hope that you have a fun trip and a safe ride back. Preach the gospel to the people there. The tour guide or whoever. Elder Bednar said we don’t need to only read Preach My Gospel but we need to BE Preach My Gospel, and that was not directed only to the missionaries, that is for every member of the church. Love you and thanks for your support.
