Letter from Cameron April 2nd 2012
This week was basically crazy. Before the mission I thought that there are not that many things to worry about in the mission only teaching, baptizing and the work. I was completely wrong. I am a pretty relaxed guy but this week almost put me on my back.
I won’t complain I’ll just tell the truth. Don’t worry. First the good.
Conference was sweet we got to watch it in English so that was way cool. I guess I could watch it in Spanish and be alright but the Spanish words don’t have the same significance as he English ones so I just different. I saw Spencer singing and I was diligently looking for Craig but I never saw him. that’s alright at first I was kind of jealous that he got the chance and I didn’t then I immediately remembered Jeffery R. Holland talk that said we shouldn’t pout when somebody else has something good happen to them. So I stopped. It was super cool that they had that experience to sing for the church and for the prophet.
It sounded good. Conference was super cool I really never enjoyed it like I do know in the mission. Pretty cool huh. There was one talk about how parents need to let the children make their own decisions for some reason I really liked it.
ok this week we ate Chicharrones En Salsa Verde....Mexican missionaries don’t even like this its super gross it’s like fried pig skin in salsa it totally grossed me out and made me sick to my stomach the next day so both me and my comp where sick the next day. it was pretty rough day. I almost threw up and honestly I wanted to. oh mom I think you ate a pretty legit taco al pastor I love those but the ones here don’t have tomato everybody here says they taste different in the united states but who really knows. They’re delicious huh one time I ate 15 of them!
Tacos are usually those small tortillas. Anyway so the next day we worked a half day because we where super sick in the morning. all this soup I’m eating is giving me a nasty case of the runs that has lasted about 3 weeks off and on know...that’s just how it goes in México I called the mission doctor here to ask him if this was weird he told me more or less. But then he said you should be over it by now you have almost 5 months in México. So he gave me a prescription over the phone and I bought it for 10 pesos what a steal prescriptions for less than 80 cents. I was pretty stoked about that.
Anyway so then that night some sister in the ward came to me almost in tears asking me to help her pay her tuition at BYU because she can’t pay it. She wanted to give me the money and then my parents would send it to BYU honestly I felt like it was a bad idea from the start but she was really desperate so I told he I would help her at first she told me it was like 93 dollars or something. so I figured that it wasn’t too much I so I went ahead and called president and he gave me permission to call home so then after a 5 min phone call home I had it all set up and really to go. So I went to bed that right feeling not very sure about the whole thing and when she called and told me it was more and she told me the wrong amount I started to worry more turns out it was about 2500 dollars. so I decided to pray about it to figure out what I should do when I was praying I felt like I didn’t need to do it and there is another way to pay. The internet came to mind I think I have been out of the US so long I forgot you can pay for stuff on the internet. Internet is popular here but they don’t do anything with finances on the internet. Anyway I woke up in the morning and called her and told her I didn’t feel good about it and its better for both of us if you just pay on the internet. I told her it’s really easy and if she needed any help I would come help her. Then I basically forgot about it. Then on Saturday her mom came up to us she looked really weird and kind of frantic. She started to tell us how she fell it to depression last night and hasn’t eaten anything in over 24 hours. Because of all this pay BYU stuff. I explained to her that she can do it on the internet and she told me that she didn’t know how. I told her I offered my help why didn’t you call us? I really felt like she was blaming me for the problem. So I explained the process again with another elder from the US that went to BYU before the mission. So we explained it to her again step by step and wrote it down on a paper. I felt pretty bad but what could I have done better. I didn’t feel good about taking her money and didn’t want to be the one that lost her 2500 dollars so who knows.
anyway kind of interesting then on Sunday we passed by a members house at night and started talking about the food problem we have it the ward with feeding the missionaries I guess there has been some real problems in the ward with racist missionaries that liked to complain about the food and now we are reaping the benefits of their actions he was really nice and what he said was really true he said the rich don’t want to feed the missionaries and the poor are scraping all they can to help the missionaries. basically the reason he told me we ate Chicharrones En Salsa Verde was because of this just some people in the ward don’t like the missionaries this isn’t the first time somebody has given us food we don’t like on purpose. But chicharone is super cheap and so is salsa verde so maybe they just didn’t have money that week.
All and all it’s not our place to judge. Anyway we had 1 investigator at church and he is not super sure about getting baptized yet so we are still working but found some guy in the street that really wants us to come by his house the other day he drew us a map and everything.
So hopefully we will find success with him. Anyway have a good week.
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