Week 38 - 3/19/12

Wow what a week. Well where do I start off....

Tuesday.  We found a less active that lives out in a pueblo that has a daughter of 9 years old.  We taught her and she is really funny.  We drove out there with our mission leader and he drove soooo fast.  His car does not have seat belts and I saw him get up to 80.  Well interesting Mexico fact... I have never seen someone use a seatbelt here....  we did a family home evening as well.

Wednesday. A little contacting and random visits.

Thursday. Really kind of a slow day. Not a whole lot to do.  In the night we went out to El Seco, the other elders’ area, to have the district meeting.  Rather that coming back we just stayed the night.  We were going to have divisions, but they didn’t have enough money to pay for the bus to our area.

Friday... Just random visits nothing too exciting.

Saturday.  wow what a day.  Well we were pretty sure that we were going to have changes today so we went on a quest to say good bye to many people....  So we went and said good bye to a bunch of friends took pictures and everything.  Then we bought pizzas for one of the families that is really poor, but they are always giving us pan and hot chocolate. Pizza is pretty expensive, or I guess not expensive, just about the same it would cost in the US.  They were pretty excited.  It was a lot of fun.

Sunday.  Church in the morning.  Then we said good bye to more people because we were sure we were going to have changes.  Then we waited and waited.  And we never got the call from the zone leaders until like 9 at night.... then we got the big news........ we don’t have changes.... we are staying here.  We now feel really really dumb for saying goodbye to everyone....  But yeah we are here together for another 6 weeks.  I like this area even though the work is a little hard.  Just about every other area in the zone is baptizing about 6-7 a change.  But whatever, I have a lot of fun with Johnson and the families out here.

Thats about it, a little shorter email...

Elder Wigington

Week 37 - 3/12/12

Well what happen, well, let me just tell you.

Soooo....

Tuesday.  We woke up bright and early at 4:30 in the morning so we could get to the Stake Center in time for the meeting.  We got to stake center at like 8:30 just in time for the district leader meeting. After this meeting ended, I went off on divisions with one of the zone leaders. Anyways so we went to an appointment with one of his investigators.  She was an interesting one... said a lot of words that i don’t know... and that usually means that they are not the best words to be using. Then we headed back to the house, we studied, then we went out again.  So then we went to a less active.  Then something really funny happened.  She asked me if I had a sister. And then went on about how beautiful my sister must be.  Wow, Becca is even getting shout outs from Mexico.  Then we went to sleep on the hard hard floor.

Wednesday. Well.......  we woke up.  Went to interviews with the President.   Then we had training from the assistants. We went on the bus to get home. We got back at like 8ish.  Then I opened my birthday box.  Well the Mexican government wanted a little bit of the birthday fun as well I supposed and had opened about half of the gifts.... but at least I got them, from what it seemed everything was there.  Wow those gifts were so creative I loved it.  Becca, I love the idea of tricking the people with the pen.  I mean, I wouldn’t want them to think I had a pen.  Then they won’t try to attack because they will be like, wow that’s a scary knife. Then Matthew, those cards were awesome, the notes were funny.  My companion got really jealous of the Pokemon ones haha. The workout cards are cool, some of the workouts look pretty tough.    And always the food is super.  Rice Krispies are awesome!

Thursday. We really didn’t have much work to do in our area. So we just did a whole bunch of contacting!!! Like a ton!  We contacted 70 people! We knocked like a million doors.  And that’s really all we did.

Friday.  We returned to a bunch of the appointments that we had set with the contacts and like no one was there.  Yeah.... 

Saturday.  We did a little more contacting.  We found this guy we began to teach and he agreed with everything we said... sometimes before we even finished saying it.  We were talking about baptism and how Christ was baptized and he said yeah, they do it a little different now.  And I responded we did need to do it just like Christ did it, and he then said yes absolutely I mean we have to do it exactly like Christ showed us. Then I just answered, so will you do it just like Christ did it and he said yes.  So that was interesting, we will see if anything ends up happening with him. 

Sunday.  Someone from the stake came and gave a talk about how everyone needs to pay their tithing. Then we had one of the most scary foods I’ve ever had in my life.  Half was this meat, but I don’t know if I can call it meat.  It really didn’t have much flavor... I have no idea what it was called but the texture was between chicken skin and the fat on a stake. Ugh..... I was just praying that it would turn in to mom’s pot pie or the soup “she makes on purpose” lol.  [Note: Curtis strongly dislikes the pot pie and soup he is referring to!]  Then we made some visits and that is about it.

Yes what a week huh.

Week 36 - 3/5/12

Tuesday.  We did some contacting in the morning.  After we ate we followed up on some contacts and they were not there... The weirdest thing happened.  Some sand storm thing started.  The air was just full of sand and it would get in your ears and mouth and everything.  The whole sky was brownish.  We tried to go outside as little as possible because I don’t think it’s really good for you. 

Wednesday.  We had our district meeting.  Then we went for our money at the ATM with the other members of our district. Soon after they left we got a call from one of the other Elders in the district.  He told us that he had left his credit card in the atm... so we went to the bank and seriously waited in line for like a hour and a half, just to find out that if some forgets their card, the machine eats it.  We visited the really old investigator again.  We have a really hard time trying to teach him how to pray.  He forgets as soon as we explain it. 

Thursday.  Mostly just stopping by less actives and contacting.

Sunday.  Regular Sunday, church like normal.  Then we visited some investigators and then a recent convert.

News...  We have to go to Puebla tonight for divisions with the zone leaders.... ugh.  We have to say until Wednesday, because we then have interviews.  I really don’t like sleeping on the floor in other elder’s houses...  But good news! In April Elder Bednar is coming to our mission.  That is cool.

Ok that’s it.

Elder Wigington

Week 35 - 2/27/12

Another week, and still no birthday package....

Anyways, to answer your question, do I understand everything in Spanish?  Well mostly.  Like the only times I really still have problems with the language is when some topic comes up that I have no vocabulary for.  I can understand what they are saying even if I don’t know every word, but I just can’t talk about it good.  I don’t know if that made sense or not....

Tuesday, regular day... just some visits to less actives and contacting. 

Wednesday.  haha, so we went to a brother's work to help him with his English homework.  He’s like 50ish, but now taking English classes.  So when we got there he all of a sudden had the idea that he need to rearrange his office.  So he spent like 45 min while we were there moving his desk and trying out different ways of positioning it.  Then by time he was done... we had to go.  Then he asked us why we couldn’t help him.... it made me laugh.  Then just not much.  A bunch of appointments falling through and everything.

Thursday. Some contacting and not really much else.  It’s starting to get a lot hotter.  Well not hotter, but the sun it just really strong here, burns really fast. 

Saturday.  Well up this point we literally had 0 investigators.  But on Saturday we found one who let us in and said we could go back. He is an interesting guy. Like 25 with really long hair.

Sunday.  Well church.  Then we went to these investigators... well they aren’t really progressing and we really have stopped visiting them, but they invited us to eat with them.  But what they didn’t tell us is that it was going to be a party for their baby Jesus.  Basically when we got there, there was a baby Jesus that was sitting on the table and everyone was sitting around it watching the movie the Terminator...  We quickly found an excuse to leave.  Then a visit to some recent converts.

But that’s about it.  All of the light bulbs in our house are starting to go out, it is really annoying, because it’s such a pain to buy light bulbs, not really, but no missionary wants to spend money on house care....

Thats all!!!

Elder Wigington