Week 60 - 8/19/12

Well I should be in the offices until the 3rd or the 4th.  Then I’ll be going back I think.

Monday  and Tuesday, I think we just did regular office work.

Wednesday,  Well I woke up in the morning with a really sore throat.  That was not fun.  But then at night the sister that lives below us gave me this honey and lime juice stuff and it made my throat feel really good.

Thursday.  Well I was still sick, this time it wasn’t a sore throat, but just congestion.  I was dying all day.  I’m pretty sure I just looked like a zombie.  We had a ton of work to do and I just felt awful.  Well president had to go out to this area that was like 45 minutes away and didn’t want to go alone so he invited us to go with him.  We had a good talk with him.  It was pretty cool to get so much one on one time with president.  Anyways he did his interview then we left.  It was really pretty out there in a pueblito called Atexcac.  On the way back were just talking then he all of a sudden was like Elder Wigington, First principle, first lesson, I was like ugh ugh ugh... In preach my gospel? yes Elder Wigington, what is it,ugh ugh... God is our loving heavenly father.  Caught me off guard. Then we went in a circle listing off each principle in all the lessons.  Wow... I’m a little rusty on my preach my gospel.  I knew the general concept, but the exact titles... not so much.  It was fun though. Anywho.... so do you remember when Elder V. was our companion.  Well he needed surgery so he had to go home.  So we got things ready for him to go.  We ate dinner at the president’s house.  We ate some good old American style tacos. Haha.  Then we were around the mission house the whole night, and then we went back to our house.  Then... at 4 in the morning we woke up. Well I guess that should be for Friday huh.

Friday.  Ok so we woke up at 4 to take Elder V. to the bus station.  Then we dropped him off and I was still sick.... I swear this whole week we never went to bed on time or slept until 6:30.  I was so sleep deprived and sick, I felt so dead.  Anyways we came back and I was planning on just sleeping until forever, but then I forgot on Fridays we have to go to the office at 7 to open up for the cleaning lady. So I got maybe an hour of sleep then we went to the office to open up for her... she never came.... then we went to pick up president.  We went to the office and had a day of working.

Saturday. Pday... if you can call it that. Well we woke up early... again to get to a service project at 6:30. We were going to do service at this kindergarten in this little pueblito.  We sanded down the paint and repainted the whole thing.  But you know how service goes, by the time you're half done, half the people are gone.  A bunch of the elders from the zone showed up, but because they had appointments and stuff they left early, but us, because it was our p-day we had no excuse to leave so we stayed there until like 3:30.  We got back to the house and just crashed.  Then we got a call at like 5 from the missionaries in the hospital. That they were going to leave and couldn’t leave until we paid. So I showered.  Then we went to the hospital to pay.  Turns out that not only have I used up all my money that I can withdraw but just about all of the money I can use directly off the card.  Soooooo..... I only had enough to pay for 2.... so I had to beg and plead, not exactly, but I had to talk to a bunch of people to let me wait until Monday to pay so we could pay with presidents card.  Ugh... that took a while.  I spent all 11,000 USD that I had for the month.  Watch out dad, maybe you shouldn’t give me a credit card because I sure have learned to waste money haha.  Well then we got to the offices at 8, but then I had to go buy the medicine for them with the little that was left on the card.  Then home to sleep. So that’s why I didn’t write.  

Today. Sunday.  Church, food, office.  bout it.

Elder Curtis Wigington

Week 59 - 8/11/12

Wow, I really feel the love, come to internet late and... no emails.  So sad.  I bet you are all up north or just enjoying your Saturday forgetting your Mexican son.  Ok well here I go.

Monday. Well I went to the bank to take money out to pay for some visa stuff and it turns out.... I took out all the money on the mission card.  Well I didn’t take out all the money, but I reached the withdraw in cash limit.  Yeah can you believe that in 10 days I spent $6000 USD in pure cash.  Wow that is crazy.  So I had to take like another 1000 USD out of president’s card so I could pay for some hospital bills and visa bills.  Then it was president’s birthday.  We bought him a cake.  It was cool but he was pretty stressed out.  He has had to do a lot of interviews with missionaries. 

Tuesday.  We had to wake up early to let the cleaning lady in the office at 7, but she didn’t get there until like…8 ugh.  Well we did a bunch of work.  Right now we are training Elder and Sister de la Rosa how to be secretaries.  We started Insanity again.  We had kind of stopped because we had been staying up late in the office, but things are a little more regular now so we are getting good exercise again.

Wednesday.  Elder V. left.  He went to another area to be in a trio.  Well I woke up pretty sore seeing as I started to exercise again. Oh so Elder W. and Elder F. stayed at our house that night because they were pretty sick and their area was really far away.  I took them to get some blood tests and it turns out they have salmonella.  That’s what you get for drinking the water... Haha, no I don’t think they drank the water. 

Thursday.  We bought a new chair for the Sister de la Rosa. 

Friday.  Well. good day..  We had to wake up early again for the cleaning lady but... she came late again.  We went to immigration.  Then to a doctor.  We had to get that 10 retention thing I had told you about before and they didn’t want to give it.  But I had Elder De La Rosa with me as well, and it is amazing how much more respect an older person gets. Ugh, I guess I would love it if a 20 year old white kid walked into my office telling me that I had to return some money back to him... hmmmm. Then Sister Reeve’s computer had had problems and I had got it to turn on a couple times but it would never stay consistently on soooo I decided to take it apart.  It was because he had dropped it, so I thought it might have been something that was loose on the inside. I took the whole thing apart.  Like full apart, like every screw out, everything separated and I tried to find something wrong with it.  The whole laptop was spread across like 3 desks.  Anyways, I put it back together and it worked for like a minute and then died. I don’t think there is much hope for it...  but it was a lot of fun.  I have never taken a laptop apart to that extent before.  Good stuff. 

Saturday. today. Well.... we had a really tough work out. Killed my abs.  But no pain no gain right... haha ok, just if you don’t recognize me when I get home it’s because I’ll just be so buff.  Haha ok maybe not.  Well we went and did service with the elders quorum.  We clean up some overgrown grass on the sidewalk in front of a member house.  We cut the grass with machetes and shovels....  The job we did in 2 hours you could have done in 10 minutes with a weed wacker.... but more wife points right?   Well then we did laundry.  And we came here and now we are writing.  Yeah. But you won’t read this because you’re having too much fun and not writing me... I’ll just go buy myself some tacos and eat my pain away. haha.

Okeyday bye now

Elder Curtis Wigington

Week 58 - 8/4/12

Well.  You know another week in the office.  But never the less many great and exciting things happened, ok maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration.

Sunday. Well we taught Dario.  He has completely gone back to where he was when we first met him.  He really doesn’t want to hear anymore.  He doesn’t answer our phone calls.... It’s funny since we have been in the office we have hardly done any missionary work.  Yet we had had three people super close to getting baptized, but then they talked to their mom and then didn’t want to ever hear from us again.  Moms are sooooooo annoying.  Haha just kidding mom, not you.

Monday.  Well we were in the office all day.  We had our regular meeting with president.  Then I pretty much spent the whole day getting things ready for the De La Rosas to come.  I need to remove all the great enhancements I have made to the computer so it is easier for them...  it’s really quite sad.  Also I started writing a book to explain how to do my job.  It’s a lot of fun. You should read it sometime... good stuff.

Tuesday.  So a whole bunch of office work.  Like a ton.  Just getting everything ready for the new secretaries. Still working on the book. Now I know you can picture this.  You have seen me when I am like halfway through writing a paper.  Now just image that with a spinny chair.  Yeah.  That was me writing that book or paper or whatever you want to call it.  It was funny because I finished at like 8pm and then called president to have him look over it.  I had him on speaker phone here in the office while he made corrections.  It really reminded me of college where I had mom on the phone or skype telling me what I needed to fix. Old memories... however I think I was a little more focused when I was doing it with president. Sorry mom.... Yeah, then we stayed in the office until like 12 at night.

Wednesday.  Well we woke up and went to district meeting. Then we left and while we were walking to where the bus picks us up, a woman ran over a chunk of metal and popped her tire.  My companion quickly went over and asked if we could change the tire.  It wasn’t that I wasn’t going to offer to help, he just did it first.  Anyways so he got her tire out of the trunk and was like... how do you change a tire? Good thing that manly Elder Wigington had been taught from early on how to change tires even though he hated doing it and had a bad attitude when dad asked him to do it....  But we were also in our suit coats because the new secretaries were coming so we wore suits.  Soooooo I changed the tire in a suit.  That’s cool, huh?  Then it turns out this lady was the PR manager for a zoo called African Safari.  And it’s a really cool expensive zoo.  And she said we could come by for free whenever we wanted.  So one of these p-days we will go.  Cool deal! Ok so then we got to the office and waited for Elder and Sister De La Rosa to come.  They came and we took them to their house and bought it.

Thursday.  We started to teach them how to do their job.  Elder de la Rosa will be the financial secretary the sister will be the other.  Sooo I’ve been teaching him a lot.  He learns really fast.  He used to be a stake president and a patriarch. Kind of strange that I’m teaching him anything.... 

Friday.  Zone leader conf.  yay. My favorite thing here in the office.  We eat breakfast.  We talk for like 5 minutes about what they need to do better on with regards to our job.  Then we leave.  And we come back for dinner and dessert.  It’s like just coming to the refreshments after a  youth activity. Gotta love it.

So I think we will have about 2 more weeks in the office just training the new secretaries. Then we will stay in our area until the end of the change so that if they need help we are there to help. 

Ok thats allll

Elder Curtis Wigington

I really never know how to write my name at the end.... so I just say Curtis, or just Elder or Curtis Elder Wigington or Elder Wigington or leave it blank or just how the assistants call me Wigster.

Week 57 - 7/28/12

Ok, so this week I was thinking about that we are going to have to train these senor missionaries.  And I don’t know if you know, but when you train someone, they are then your hijo.  Your son.  So I was thinking about it and it’s a couple and so that means, well, I might just have a hija... daughter.  Isn’t that weird.  Haha. ok sorry, I was just pondering on that the other day.

Monday, the madness begins. Now I hope not to confuse you...  We started off by going to the mission house.  A new missionary, Elder C. came and we ate breakfast.  So good, I’m going to miss that.  Waffles.  He had his training, but I couldn’t give him his credit card because they never sent it to me.  Anyways, then a little later on the trainer came and they had a training and I ate more food in the mission house.  I swear was just there to eat haha.  Then... all the missionaries that are going home came and we ate dinner in the mission house again.  Wow poor Sister Reeves. Then we had a testimony meeting with us, the assistants, and all the leaving missionaries.  It was good, but let me tell it is not healthy to be around so many missionaries that are leaving.  Everyone is all excited and you’re like I’m almost there too... oh wait no I’m not haha.  Anyways after all the hanging out at the mission house we went to sleep there until like 12:30.  Then we took the Mexicans to the bus station.  After that we came back to the mission house and slept for another 2 hours.  At 3:30 we took the Americans to the airport. All that went well.  We got lost on the way back from the airport so we went back to the house showered and went right to the change meeting.  We got our new comp, Elder V.  He has knee problems right now so he will be with us for a little bit.  Poor him, he just sits here in the office while we do our work.  There really isn’t anything that he can do here. We had him organize the references that we hadn’t had time to do, but.... he finished that in like 3 hours and now just spins on the chair... Anyways back to Monday.  Or now Tuesday.  We went back to the office to finish up some work there and we went back to the house at like 7:00. At this point we were going to go to sleep, but then we got a call from president and he said that a sister missionary did not have a mattress for the night and we had to take her one.  She is in an area that is at least 45 minutes away.  So we went there.... dropped off her mattress.  And the thing was....there is an area right next to theirs that was closed, so the next day the zone leaders were going to bring them a bunch of stuff... but you know... the sister can't sleep on the ground for one night......  So we got back to the house at like 10 and we crashed.  That was from like 6:30 Monday to 10 Tuesday with like a only a few hours of sleep, but lots of food, that was good. 

Wednesday.  So we got to the office early. We had to run to the north offices and then we were low on gas so we went to a gas station and they filled us up... then I gave them the credit card and to my luck, it didn’t work, or better said, their credit card swiper didn’t work......... Grrrrrrr.  And so we had to park the van and go to an ATM which wasn’t that far away, like 5 minute walk.  But then... all of a sudden.... it started raining super hard.  We went and took out the money and came back and paid. Soaking.......... Then we had to go all over the place to pick up packages and mail blah.  Anyways...

Thursday.  The president came into the office a little upset.  He tried to pay a hospital bill, and his card didn’t pass so he went to the ATM and he did know it had a limit - the atm, not the card - so he tried, but couldn’t take out the money.  So he showed up to the office a little frustrated. I really don’t think he gets mad, but anyways he told me that I had to go pay since his card didn’t work. So I went and my card didn’t work either. I went to an ATM and I had to take it out in parts.  The bill was 43,000 peso.  So I had to take it out in 4 withdraws.  That was a big stack of bills. I felt like I won on a slot machine. I mean it was just shooting out money haha. So I put all the bills in my wallet and I couldn’t close it, can say I’ve never had that problem before.  It was all in 500 peso bills so it was like 86 bills.  Haha.  Ok enough talking about how much money I took out, but one more thing.  So I wasn’t sure if I could take out that much money, so I called my boss to ask and he was like don’t worry you get 6000 USD on you card every month.  Hey that’s pretty good huh, at least for Mexico. Then I went to sleep.  And you were ready to look and Friday weren’t you? But no, someone called at like 11:30pm from some hospital saying that some missionaries were there and wanted to know if I would pay so they could go ahead to give them medical service.  I of course asked them who the missionaries were and they said some names I had never heard of, so I had them repeat it like 5 time and I thought I was just not understanding.  So I passed them to my comp because he talks Spanish better and he asked how old were the missionaries and they said like 17.  Then one was a guy and the other a girl.  And then we just told them... ugh they aren’t missionaries, bye.  So someone tried to rip us off in the middle of the night, that’s cool. 

Now Friday.  I prepared the rent for the next month.  Then the president asked us to write a... book…about how to do everything in our job.  So that is a really big boring task.  I’ll be working on it and as Becca knows I never get distracted.... like when I clean my room... I won’t be writing the book and then just think... hmm maybe I should reconfigure the printing network, yeah, that’s important, I’ll do that.  But I have gotten like 6 pages done.  I mean you see me whenI write essays in English, then when I do it in Spanish it bores me 10 times as fast haha.

Saturday.  P-day. Well we were going to go to Atlixco, but just the way the morning worked out, with a missionary needing help moving in to a new, house we didn’t do anything.  Now we are here writing, in the office and that’s it. 

okeyday thats all

Elder Washington

SOooo all the time when people call me and I call people and they ask for my name it’s really hard to explain over the phone, so I just say Washington so they understand haha.