Buenas!
This week has been pretty crazy to
say the least. First things first though, it was so darn good to talk to you
all. I am glad to hear that all is well and all in all I was just glad to hear
your voices. I was sure to tell Hna. Carla thank you so much but she said it
was not a problem at all. She was happy she could help Elder Garcia and I out.
I just love ya guys so much!!! I hope
you all had a wonderful Christmas and that you all have your two front teeth.
(That, and I hope the Lakers lost!)
First things first, I'll answer the
questions [from mom]. Cancun was pretty good and my
part of the conference went pretty well. I only had two or three problems with
my spanish and I only swore once... It was an accident though!! It was good though and it was a good review of the
things we learned from President. I think my teaching is improving but I still
need to work on being patient and being comfortable with silence in the
lessons. A lot of the time, I just want to keep talking but I need to wait and
let the Spirit do some talking to me and most importantly the investigator. We
weren't able to take a bus Thursday night though so the Zone leaders said we
needed to take the one at 5 o'clock Friday morning. Can I just say it is
absolutely awful waking up at 3 to go take a 2 hour bus ride? The night before we left it rained like crazy too so all our
stuff got soaked. Luckily, I haven’t had
too much of a sleep hangover or whatever you want to call it, these last few
days.
As far as my New Years plans, we
don't really have any. We're going to have district meeting as usual tonight
but tonight the Elders from Tizimin will be coming to join us. Everyone is
staying at my house tonight but we still have to go to bed at the same time.
Everyone says that we'll wake up at midnight though because things get pretty
crazy here. There are "muñecas" or mannequins outside of a lot of the houses and from what I hear, at 12 they're
going to burn them. It's basically pants and a shirt stuffed with newspaper and
the burning of the guy is supposed to symbolize the passing of the old year....
Something like that. It should be pretty good tonight to get together with all
the missionaries though. It's always nice to have a couple more guys to talk
with.
Tonight we have to be in our house
right after District meeting, and then tomorrow we won't leave until about
4. Things get a little tipsy here if you
know what I mean. We have quite the wine bibbers that live next door to us.
The new youth program sounds so
awesome! I really want to be a teacher of one of the classes when I get back. I
was talking to our bishop a little bit about it and it seems like it will make
the teachers work a little bit harder but most of all, help the youth. It
should be pretty divine!
Things are still going really slow
here as far as investigators that are actually fulfilling their commitments.
I'm just trying to keep the faith and work hard though. Hopefully we'll have a breakthrough soon.
I'm thinking
we'll start cooking once all the holiday season dies down. We'll just keep
working!
This is the last week of transfers
so hopefully we'll be able to stay together one more transfer so I can finish
training Elder G. All I can say is I've tried my hardest and done all I
know to do so at the end of the day I can be happy I reckon.
Sorry this one isn't very long, but
just know that I love you guys so much! Keep the wonderful
letters/emails/prayers coming, they sure are so great!
Tay
Standing on the corner in.......Valladolid, Mexico
Must be Christmas morning
Elders A, Jaussi and S. at conference in Cancun
"La Zona" (the Zone) doing the "perdon" sign. He's not sure why but it is popular for some reason.
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