once again, i love getting your letters, they are the
best. both of them were so funny i just laughed the entire time reading them.
dad, what you said about kev crushing molly on the court is hilarious because i
just picture the same thing…so funny, that kid is hilarious. that sounds like a
total blast going to that tennis tourney. about our crazy family day trips
those were the best…i love doing those things. to be completely honest, apart
from the family of course, i probably miss san fran the most. i don’t get it,
like why do i like a city so much…it doesn’t make any sense, but i love that
city...that is my hood. seriously, sf is one of the best cities in the world
and i miss it so much. so last week i said that this change was probably going
to be hard because of my new comp…this change will be hard i think but not as
hard as i thought last week. ortega and bonilla didn’t really like each other
that much so i think ortega was really lazy to make bonilla mad. i love bonilla
and he is my dad but his social skills were a little bit off. he loved
giving "sincho" which is like getting after people for doing something wrong
like breaking a rule or something. yea, so bonilla loved giving sincho. i
realized he was just trying to do what was right so it was never that big of a
deal for me. ortega though didn’t like it at all and that’s why i think they
didn’t get along that well. so this last week was good but a little slower then
the ones in the past because my comp is a bit lazy and it takes a while to get
out the door. but it was a good week and a lot better then what i expected. we
did work and we did teach but i still would like to do more work. the highlight
of the week was confirming the fecha with a family for baptism. they are getting
baptized next week and their wedding was last night. it so cool that we invited
them to follow the commandments so they got married and next week they will get
baptized. i just think it is so cool that they probably would have never heard
the gospel if it wasn’t for us missionaries being here at this time. i
absolutely love this family and they are the best. i have some pics that i will
send you. they are the best and are so happy and they just make do with nothing
because they are dirt poor. they are literally dirt poor and their house is the
size of mom and dad’s bathroom. they just have a bed, some clothes, and that’s
it. they love planting flowers though so they have pretty flowers all over
their property. what’s incredible is that they barely have enough money to
survive but they love life and are so happy. it just reminds me of that quote
in my farewell how money doesn’t correlate to happiness. its so true because
most of the people here are so happy and cheerful but live off of nothing. yea,
so the fecha and the wedding last night was the highlight of my week for sure.
today was really fun though too. we play soccer ever monday in santa elena which
is a 45 minute bus ride from our area. we meet up with other missionaries and
play soccer. today though was not that competitive because sister missionaries
were playing with us too. i didn’t have that much fun so i left early with
another missionary on splits. he and i explored santa elena. its not a giant
city but its pretty big. we did what i like to do best…just explore and wander
just like i like to do in the city. we ended up at some sketchy market with a
bunch of counterfeit cool things. then we met up with the rest of the
missionaries at pizza hut where we always have lunch. we walked around for like
3 hours exploring and it was the best. my comp doesn’t like to do that so it
was cool i could go with another missionary. really fun day but its like a 100
degrees again today. i don’t know if i told you this already or not but the only
grocery store is here in santa elena so we have to come here for p days every
week pretty much which is cool. it’s a 45 minute bus ride to get here.
its actually a van not really a bus and they load like 28 people in it…well 28
is the record…but usually there’s about 24 people in the van so that’s always
fun. we also have to come here on wednesdays for district meeting in santa
elena so we come here twice a week. in our area we only have tiendas which are
like little shacks where they sell drinks, chips, beans, and eggs but thats
about it. i’ve started running with my comp in the morning everyday which is a
lot of fun. we ran every day this past week starting on tuesday. my goal is to
drop another 25 pounds to get down to like 200 and my comp wants to drop 18 this
change. we have 6 weeks to do it and it is definitely possible. my goal
is just a little bit more than mom's 2 pounds weight loss goal ha, ha. yea, but
i am loving it here as always and its the freaking best. this week i’ve really
had a better understanding of spanish. i am starting to be able to somewhat
understand what the people are saying to me when i talk with them. i can talk
fine but its my understanding that is hard for me. i can understand gringos but
natives are really hard especially if they talk in vos. i don’t know if they
have vos in mexico dad, but its like another form of the tu verb. they take the
verb tener for example and they just take off the “r” and add an “s” so it’s
tenes. for the command form they take of the “s” so its just tene. it’s
different than what i’m used to, and luckily not everybody uses it, but its just
something i need to get used to. i’m not supposed to use it though because i am
supposed to always use ud but sometimes i use tu when talking to kids to
practice. i don’t use vos though because i want to learn ud and tu before i use
vos. yea, that’s my spanish and my life out here in san jose peten guat and i’m
loving every minute of it. i love you guys and miss you.
elder call
hermano wilmer and i and his youngest son carlitos
this is the whole family 2 kids one 12 the other 6
this is a pic after they had been married wilmer and catorina
another incredbile pic of me jumping over looking the lake. im a huge fan
of this pic haha
down at the lake
holy freak i forgot to tell you a story we were eating lunch at wilmer and
catolinas house and they had these little chillies. wilmer told me they were
not spicy so i ate one. it was spicy really spicy but i could handle it i could
handle spice pretty good. bonilla ate one and was crying so ate no more and
ortega ate like 3. i was like oh ya thats really good. wilmer kept on telling me
to eat more so i did. my moutuh was on fire. i ate 5 with the food and it was
hot. after the food wilmer was like have another and i was like freak alright
if bonilla and ortega did. so we all at one more. bonilla cired haha and ortega
was crying to but i was doing ok. i decided to show the who the alpha male was
haha and eat like 6 more. i had 6 in my mouth and were chewing them. terrible
decision absolutly terrible. i haven{t been int hat much pain since nam. i was
dying crying weezing i was making a fool out of myself haha. it was reallyfunny
though and they were all dying. the pain in my mouth lasted another 30 mins but
the fire in my stomach lasted teh entire day. learned my lesson haha don{t try
to show off by eating a lot of chillies.
here is a picture of me right in the middle of all my pain hahaha good
times
an incredible sunset with just the top of my head that is visible
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