That´s really cool that were going to Georgia. I was a little bit worried that it was going to be Utah or something like that. I think that it´s funny that we’ll be in Houston County. I was just really glad it’s going to rain like every month at least. I have been a month in Cd Juarez and the weather hasn´t changed one bit. It just gets hotter.

So, this week was cool because I had divisions with the ZL (zone leader). I was pretty happy to get away from my companion for a little bit and be junior companion for a day. It was like a day at the spa; no worries, no headaches: nada. The other cool thing is that I went with Elder Gerrat. He´s my step brother in the mission and he speaks English. I mejored (bettered) my English like 100% with him. I started thinking in English again. It was kind of funny too because I went to Parajes my old ward and I met some of the members again. They didn’t remember me because I was only there one cycle but it was cool. We did a service project painting a lady´s gate. It was funny because the last time I was there we painted half of the gate and she didn’t like the color. So, I came back and finished painting it a different color. 

So, I think that I beat you guys. y’all thought you was guna move first but I moved before y’all. (sorry, just gettin ready fur Georgia). Right now, we are living in the house of what was the sister missionaries house. The secretaries of the mission came and dropped off an ac unit like the one your guys have (because the mission president has money and feelings) Then after getting our hopes up they crushed it by telling us that today we had to move everything over to the old house that looks like cardboard box in comparison with this mansion (the sisters always have great houses). This house has carpet but the other has laminate on almost all of the floor. It´s just missing a bit of tiles. We had to clean both houses last week and this week we have to organize them both. So, ha we won. After having to move houses, when I saw Georgia and just the fact that its guna rain. I was pumped.

Anyways that was pretty much my week. we got a less active to go to church. We pretty much ticked of the wife of the second counselor to the bishop last Sunday. We asked her to go pick up an investigator. She got lost and when she found the investigator he was drunk and didn’t want to go to church. Running late, she chewed out my companion because she was going to give a talk and she didn’t want to miss the sacrament. We were like two dogs with our tales in between the legs when she came in. I didn’t even know who she was but I was scared. Anyways she gave here talk on forgiveness and I felt a bit better. She got to church on time, just so y’all know, so it was all for nothing.

Anyways excited to hear next week where Heidi and Marshall are going. Send me a video please. 

See y’all next week

So, this week was a little bit rough for me. The work here is really slow and I don´t know why. Also makes it a little hard because it’s a bit hard to get along with my companion. He’s a little bit stubborn and sometimes I’m also a little bit stubborn so we kind of clash. I feel that it´s been a good learning experience. It´s helped me learn a bunch but it´s like getting growing pains. It makes you want to cry but you know that in the long run you’ll be glad you went through it. 

We found a really cool family. Well actually it was a reference from one of the people in the Del Sol ward. It was pretty cool because they wanted to go to church and everything just that they didn’t answer the phone on Sunday so we couldn’t go pick them up.

So, Sunday night they told us that we were going to change church buildings the next Sunday. We were like why didn’t you guys announce it in the sacrament meeting. And they were like oops. Anyways so we found out like Friday that it was going to be in a different stake at a different time and everything for 14 weeks while they take out the duct system and replace it. So, Sunday we caught a ride with a member. We got lost because we didn’t even know in what road it was but we found it. 

Sunday we spoke almost 100% English. Well I tried to speak 100% English but a few pero and hijoles slipped out. First, we went and taught the granddaughter of a member who is from El Paso. That was hard. It was funny because in the lesson I laughed and my companion laughed too. I turned and asked him what was so funny and he was like IDK. Then we went to give a blessing to a US Marine that was going to Iraq for the first time. That was pretty cool because it was like I know what it´s like too. I even got to give the blessing in English. It was pretty cool. When I saw him walk out of the room he was super ripped. I was like I think that´s the Marine for sure. 

So, that was pretty much the week. I hope that the next week we have something cool to tell you guys.

So, this week I got to go to my first District Leader meeting. That was pretty cool. I felt pretty cool because it was the first time I got to go as Leadership. The president is super cool. He took us to his house for the meeting. It was like a Sunday morning fireside with Pres. Pratt. It was cool. In the van of Presidente there is only room for like 8 and there were like 20 of us so he rented a big white van bigger than our van and we went to the neighborhood of the president. We were like "Wow it’s so beautiful." There aren´t any dead dogs or trash or dirt and it´s all green. He lives in Chorcho landia (rich). We had already been there once when we first got to the mission but we were all in culture shock that we couldn’t really take it all in. We had the meeting which was really good and then the best part is that we had lunch. It was like haystacks but with nachos.

This area is really hard. I don´t know why but I feel that we haven’t really been able to get anything done. We have worked harder here than in whatever other place but it doesn’t really show. I guess we have to be patient. 

Speaking of patience, I have to have a lot of patience with my companion. He thinks that everything is super funny but I don’t get the joke. But the good news is that he gives me massages. So, all the stress he gives me he takes away so in one way or another I aguanto my companion. I deal with him or something like that. I think that´s how you say it.

This week was cool because one of my investigators is a retired solder from the Mexican Army. I was like that`s so cool because normally it`s like:

¿Dónde trabaja?

Where do you work?

En la maquila.

In the factory

oh. 

oh

¿Qué hacen en su maquila?

What do you do there?

Hago harnesas o computadoras o algo asi.

I make car parts or computers or.....

¿Qué Turno tiene?

What shift do you have? 

1o o 2o o 3o 

1st 2nd 3rd

Chido 

Cool

This time it was like:  

¿Dónde trabaja?

Where do you work?

Soy military jubilado.

I’m retired solder

What!

And it was like the most interesting job I’ve ever heard of.

Anyways so that was like the week I had. Hope to write y’all soon. If you have any questions send them this way. If not, it´s ok.