This week was filled with adventures. My first Mexico campout, my first sickness, my Birthday, and transfers!
Transfers were today, but I am with Elder Rosales for another six weeks. I think thats a good thing but we will see. Just kidding, hes pretty great. Our Zone leaders became Assitants to the President and the other District leader became a Zone leader. Other than that, nothing changed.
On Tuesday of last week, we took the spare mattresses and slept on our roof! It was insanely cold and I hated it, but my companion said that it was basically his mission dream to do it, so we did it. We saw the moon, but nothing more. The pollution here is unreal. So unreal, that E. Rosales was pretty stoked to even see the Moon.
Due to the extreme cold on the roof, I was a little sick the next day but didnt think much of it, until I woke up at 4AM the next morning and threw up. And continued to do so again and again every half hour till about 10 in the morning. I crashed super hard and slept till 5pm. I got a good taste of being a missionary in a foreign country. It was great (not).
It was my Birthday!! I turned 19 on Sunday. My District is really cool and baked me a cake and threw me a mini party on Tuesday for our District meeting. The cake was Oreo. It was delicious. Then on Saturday night, Elder Rosales and I bought 3 Family sized pizzas from a family pizza shop and enjoyed the super strange pizzas that Mexico has. Marinara sauce, Cheese, Beans, Avocado, Sausage, Jalapenos, and Catsup! It actually wasnt that bad. My family sent me some birthday presents, a really good looking watch and a beautiful tie. I was really happy to receive the gifts, but it was a little difficult to really celebrate without my family there. And I didnt really celebrate because as Missionaries, we have a large workload, so my Birthday was me working haha.
Investigator update:
Gloria: We received instruction to never visit Gloria again. We are 99% sure she is super addicted to drugs. The last time we visited her, her house smelled like rotten cat urine, she told us about a vision she had in which an Angel in a flea market gave her a Bible and 50 bucks, and then she told us about her infection of her... lady part. We were extremely uncomfortable, but nevertheless, very polite. As we left, she said that if we arrived late to our next appointment with her, she would kill us and string us up by our ears. We awkwardly laughed and consulted with the Bishop, who said it is now prohibited to visit her again.
Delia: Delia is progressing, its just that she cant attend church because she has a class at 8am on Sunday for her college. As soon as she finishes college, were going to baptize her. We are hoping for April 29th.
Adrian and Kate: Adrian has some stumbling blocks to overcome on the paperwork side of marrying his girlfriend-wife, Carmen. We hope that he can marry her quickly and get baptized. His projected Baptismal date is April 1. Kate really wants to be baptized, and we dont want her to wait for her Dad if something goes wrong with the marriage license and they cant get married. We are going to Baptize Kate on February 25th! Right now, we are teaching about the Word of Wisdom and various commandments like that. They accept all of it with reason and keep every commitment they have.
Liz: Isnt an investigator, but she received her first calling in the Church! She is the representative of the Single Adults in her ward. We hope that she will like the calling, and that the calling will help her stay active for these next crucial months in her life!
We dont have very many more investigators progressing. And we are having trouble finding new ones. This week we ran into a lady named Marisol. She was selling tacos, and we contacted her. My companion said that it wasnt a coincidence that we found her in the street at that day, and that time. She said she was thinking the same thing because she wanted some help from God on how to help her family grow closer. We thought that she was of Gold, and we were sure we would be able to baptize her, and her entire family! Until we learned she lives 2 hours away from Nativitas and only works in our area during the day, but lives in another area at night. And that is how it goes with every person we contact in the street.
Other cool and funny things:
1. Mexicans think that we eat hot dogs with mayo for breakfast.
2. E. Rosales favorite song is called- We are daughters of God (he doesnt know that because he doesnt understand English)
3. I was called papacita multiple times this week by girls, and also hit on multiple times.
4. The cops in Mexico ALWAYS have their sirens on. How do people know when there is an emergency?
5. I have gained 15 pounds in 6 weeks because the members get offended if you dont eat all the food on your plate, and its so much food and i cant eat it all but i force it down and im gonna be super fat by the end of my mission cause of courtesy.
Pictures:
1. Me before I froze to death sleeping on the roof
2. Me with my birthday pizzas
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