July 28, 2014
Pool parties and vacations and family reunions?? Well that
sounds almost as fun as walking around all day in like 120° weather teaching
the gospel. But not quite... haha no just kidding that sounds way fun!
Well me and HP are getting along well here in Izamal (it's a
mall!) Haha and I have a super fun slideshow of pictures to send you guys. I
call it a not-so-typical week for any other missionary, but totally normal for
a missionary in Izamal.. It's fantastic.
Climbing pyramids for exercise!!
Sam on the top!
"The baby of the gigantic lizard who lives in the side of our
house. I tried to get a picture of the big one, but it hardly ever comes out."
This week.... hmmm well the BIGGEST problem is that we STILL
have a destroyed chapel and nobody is coming to church...:( actually that's not
true, this one lady came yesterday, but she doesn't want to get baptized and
we're in the process of finding out what her deal is... nothing extraordinary
really happened this week. Well actually yeah, we came to Centro on Friday
morning for interviews. And they decided to schedule our interviews at 7:30 am!
And that's not so bad, but when you have to take into account walking time (Like
20 minutes from our house to the bus station in Izamal, and then like 20 more
minutes from the bus station in Merida to the mission offices) and then
showering and getting ready time, and then we have to get to the bus station
early so we can have a seat, (the bus to Merida is surprisingly and incredibly full
at 5 in the morning...) and then bus ride time (1 hr 30 minutes) yeah that all
adds up. SO we had to get up at like 3ish. And we were so tired, and President G [her mission president] commented to us that we looked tired, and we told him our sad tale of
misery and woe. And you know what he does? He just looks at us a minute, and he
says (quite sarcastically, and in English) "ohh...poor little
missionaries.." Yeah, the mission president! He's not very sympathetic
when it comes to, well any sort of excuse for not working harder. His answer is
pretty much always "suck it up, forget your problems, and get back to
work!" That's just how it is here in the mission. But that's fine with me I guess!
"We went to the house
of some investigators and they decided to introduce us to their animals. HP
holding a cute little chicken."
"My turn with the little chicken. he was so fluffy!"
"And then they bring
out the big guns. Its a turkey. They just kinda picked it up and shoved it in
my face like "look its a turkey!!! big huh?"
Ok well that's all for this week! I'll send pictures! Love ya'll!
HS
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