This week has been pretty good for me except for a couple of things that are a real downer. Anyways first the questions then i will fell you in on the rest of my week. First I have not gotten any mail since the last package at the zone conference. I think that is the only time I will get mail are at zone conferences, and they are every 6 weeks. I believe that it takes a couple of weeks or maybe not even that long to get to the church office buildings. (aka mission office. Just in case anyone was confused when they read this like I was confused.) Either this Saturday or next I will know if I am going to be transferred or not. I am not sure when the next zone conference will be either. Also I don't think I have any stamps right now,so I can't send letters, because I believe that I sent those home because i thought I would be using international stamps but oh well.
My zone is called Tecamac, and we are outside of the city of mexico, the name of the city I am in is ecatepec in jardins de morelos. So look for those two names. I am not sure which you find. We mostly travel on foot and once in a while we will take a taxi or a combi, a combi is like a well the buses atome but smaller. In which the combi is pretty cheap. My comp has 1 sister who is 14 years old and two older brothers like one is 24 and I am not sure how old the other one is. I think both of his brothers served missions in mexico (he thinks...) My companion loves music, absolutly loves it. He can play the guitar like non other and can play piano also.
I am doing better. I guess it was only two day thing, but I am doing good. It is very cold i the mornings then hot in the afternoons. Also it rains a couple of times during the week and it doesn't rain lightly. The people are nice, they love feeding us too. (at least we know that he isn't starving right?) I am picking up more spanish each day. I asked one Elder yesterday how long it took him until he got the language and he said "that you learn something new each day and it shouldn't end. The secret to learning the language is to teach and work hard everyday." I like what he said that we are to work and learn more each day because it shouldn't end. So yeah a typical day is like this, we get up at 6:30 to exercise and shower and play guitar. Then at 8 to 11 it is study time. To study the language and scriptures and stuff. After that we head out to visit some people if they are home, but most times they are not so mostly we just we just walk around. At 2 is lunch usually with a sister in the ward, and most of the time the food is good but there are things that didn't taste like it should or that I am not us to their culture or something, because they put salsa and other hot stuff. The best is their qusidillas which are just amazing. Also tacos and gringas and trotas are pretty good to. Which most of that stuff is from street vendors. Anyways we get done with lunch at about 3:30ish give of take a half an hour. After that we do some more searching for the less active members till like 6 when we usually have appointments till about 9 to 9:30. Then we go to the house and I write in my journal and Elder Armenta plays the guitar some more so yeah that is a typical day so far. (Wow, that sounds like fun. Keeping busy i see!)
(k so he just rambles about us talking about stuff like his monkey.)
So the reason I did not type yesterday was because we had a zone activity. we went bowling, an ate a lot of tacos at a members house. the bowing was fun, the mexican people are funny when they bowl because some of them don't know how to bowl, like literally don't know how. (and he believes he knows how to bowl? just kidding, he knows how to spin so I guess he does know how to bowl.) It was fun. I also took some pictures of it. It was an awesome group of missionaries. the zone leaders are Elder Adams and Puga, Elder Adam's is from Ogden too, he went to Ben Lomond High I think. So that was fun. And it was packed, like we were sitting on top of each other. It wasn't comfortable. Oh but the food was so good! I had like 15 tacos, okay not really. I don't know how many I had but they were good. We didn't get back to the house till like 8:45 ish. So yeah it was kind of a long but fun. Oh also we were going to have a baptism on Sunday, but the family backed out of it. We were going to baptize the mom and daughter but the dad didn't want them to get baptized and also the mom and dad were not married but they were living together so yeah there were problems and they didn't get baptized. but we do have one on the way. So yeah i think that is it for this week. Love ya!
Shawn
Sunday, November 30, 2008
September 22, 2008
Hi! Okay, first to answer the questions. Yes my companion is a native, and yes he does know English, quite a bit of English. He is from Reynosa Mexico, which is like about 20 monutes from the border yb texas. Which he has been to Mcallen texas once, so yeah he know how to play the guitar really well, which he is teaching me how to play it. So when i come back I will be a pro just like him. (yeah sure. like he has to time to practice. psshhh.) Oh also my companion does not look like a mexican, because he is white, he looks more american really.
Okay so this past week has been interesting because on Saturday we had a baptism, which I baptized (wow, he has been able to do the baptism a lot lately.) and we might have another baptism next week too. the baptism went well, her name is Adriana. She was nervous to get baptized but we did it, and she did just fine. I am sure that she will do just fine in the church. The night of the baptism I didn't feel too well so iwent to bed at like 10ish, and the next morning I still wasn't feeling the best so I checked the temperature, and I was at 99.5 (not bad shawn. A little high....) yeah but I still went to church because we had to get investigators to the chapel for church. (yay! way to go! still went to church even when he wasn't feeling well! such a good child! :) ) It got worse during church, so after church I checked again. My temperature and it was 100.5. yeah i went to bed and drank lots of water, I feel a little better today but we will see. Well that is basically it. Lets see here well unless I think of something else then I will type some more but I don't have anything right now so love ya! (wow, i wrote in the rambling, see folks, shawn just rambles about stuff. oh well, you get it all today!)
Shawn
Okay so this past week has been interesting because on Saturday we had a baptism, which I baptized (wow, he has been able to do the baptism a lot lately.) and we might have another baptism next week too. the baptism went well, her name is Adriana. She was nervous to get baptized but we did it, and she did just fine. I am sure that she will do just fine in the church. The night of the baptism I didn't feel too well so iwent to bed at like 10ish, and the next morning I still wasn't feeling the best so I checked the temperature, and I was at 99.5 (not bad shawn. A little high....) yeah but I still went to church because we had to get investigators to the chapel for church. (yay! way to go! still went to church even when he wasn't feeling well! such a good child! :) ) It got worse during church, so after church I checked again. My temperature and it was 100.5. yeah i went to bed and drank lots of water, I feel a little better today but we will see. Well that is basically it. Lets see here well unless I think of something else then I will type some more but I don't have anything right now so love ya! (wow, i wrote in the rambling, see folks, shawn just rambles about stuff. oh well, you get it all today!)
Shawn
Friday, November 14, 2008
September 15, 2008
(hey looky, shay is actually trying to blog again!! ha ha! we will be better bloggers (okay shay is just a slacker!))
email # who knows anymore.... he just emails us now....
On Wednesday we had a zone conference which was really good. However most of it was in spanish, so I was able to pick out a few words but not all of it. Although there was a speakcer who did his talk in english, so i gt that which was nice because it was a pretty good talk. Also at the zone conference I got your greeny package, (yay! he got the greenie package! for those of you who don't know my mom sends greeny packages for when they first arrive in the area. Well, since he couldn't get packages till conferences he finally got it! Whoo hoo!) but nothing else, (oh sad, nothing else :(...) no letters. That made me sad. I was looking forward to reading a letter. Oh well, thanks for the package. I have not written any letters this past week because we have had some crazy nights like staying at investiagtors house for like a couple of hours when we have other appointments to keep. But today I should be able to write some letters. I am still not sure what the address is or if it is a good idea to send letters there, because my companion doesn't get any mail in so I forget. (yeah right, secretly he just doesn't want any letters. He just doesn't know that we know that!!)
Things here are good. The people here talk really fast, and I say that I don't understand, someimes they would go slower but most of the time be like oh okay and talk to my companion the rest of the time because I don't understand. But I think they can understand me and yes I am improving a slight bit.
Well this saturday we have a baptism which he is ready for it and know that it is right. The rest of his family are members, so that has helped and we will have more baptisms next week I think. I am not totally positive though. (hmmm... not sure eh?!)
So today is Mexico's Indenpendence day, in which I didn't think that I would be able to email today but they are open so why not?! I am not sure what exactly what they do for their independence day, except for that they have fireworks. Also I think it gets crazy on the streets or something because President Bulloch said that we need to be in our house at 6. And it is right now 4:45. Oh also as part of the mexican culture is that they don't really have a storage place for food. They just but what they need for that day for that meal that they are having. Also everything here is spicy and hot! EVERYTHING!! Event he Doritos, just the chees one even! Oh I haven't had a lot of rice and beans, I have had chicken, soup, and some other things. Oh as well in Mexico for the college and stuff, is well there are some universities that are free to attend and go to school. Also here their are quite a bit of rich, or middle people. It may not look like it on the outside but it shows on the inside. (K, he just asks the fam questions like when is so and so leaving? how is so and so doing on their mission. yada yada yada...)(says something like they are in the ghetto so they are not sure about mail.... yeah basically it!)
so it might take some time to send a letter yeah but I will let you know next week. Well love ya!!
Missionary boy
Shawn
email # who knows anymore.... he just emails us now....
On Wednesday we had a zone conference which was really good. However most of it was in spanish, so I was able to pick out a few words but not all of it. Although there was a speakcer who did his talk in english, so i gt that which was nice because it was a pretty good talk. Also at the zone conference I got your greeny package, (yay! he got the greenie package! for those of you who don't know my mom sends greeny packages for when they first arrive in the area. Well, since he couldn't get packages till conferences he finally got it! Whoo hoo!) but nothing else, (oh sad, nothing else :(...) no letters. That made me sad. I was looking forward to reading a letter. Oh well, thanks for the package. I have not written any letters this past week because we have had some crazy nights like staying at investiagtors house for like a couple of hours when we have other appointments to keep. But today I should be able to write some letters. I am still not sure what the address is or if it is a good idea to send letters there, because my companion doesn't get any mail in so I forget. (yeah right, secretly he just doesn't want any letters. He just doesn't know that we know that!!)
Things here are good. The people here talk really fast, and I say that I don't understand, someimes they would go slower but most of the time be like oh okay and talk to my companion the rest of the time because I don't understand. But I think they can understand me and yes I am improving a slight bit.
Well this saturday we have a baptism which he is ready for it and know that it is right. The rest of his family are members, so that has helped and we will have more baptisms next week I think. I am not totally positive though. (hmmm... not sure eh?!)
So today is Mexico's Indenpendence day, in which I didn't think that I would be able to email today but they are open so why not?! I am not sure what exactly what they do for their independence day, except for that they have fireworks. Also I think it gets crazy on the streets or something because President Bulloch said that we need to be in our house at 6. And it is right now 4:45. Oh also as part of the mexican culture is that they don't really have a storage place for food. They just but what they need for that day for that meal that they are having. Also everything here is spicy and hot! EVERYTHING!! Event he Doritos, just the chees one even! Oh I haven't had a lot of rice and beans, I have had chicken, soup, and some other things. Oh as well in Mexico for the college and stuff, is well there are some universities that are free to attend and go to school. Also here their are quite a bit of rich, or middle people. It may not look like it on the outside but it shows on the inside. (K, he just asks the fam questions like when is so and so leaving? how is so and so doing on their mission. yada yada yada...)(says something like they are in the ghetto so they are not sure about mail.... yeah basically it!)
so it might take some time to send a letter yeah but I will let you know next week. Well love ya!!
Missionary boy
Shawn
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