Monday, August 20, 2012

This week went good I have my new companion! Elder Vazquez he has 7 months and is super cool. We get along super good and he is hilarious. He is from the same town as my other companion Elder Sebastian. Wow I have had 5 companions already and they’re all Mexicans how sweet is that! I honestly don’t have to have American companions as I have 2 years to learn Spanish and I think that I would put and end to my progression in Spanish. Talking about Spanish progression Spencer is doing a lot better. I bet he probably talks like me now. When he left the MTC he wrote his testimony at the bottom of his letter and this last week he did it again. This week was way better than the last time he did it when he was leaving the MTC. Spanish will always be a struggle I think I learn a lot, but it’s just remembering it that’s the problem. I forget a ton of stuff just like I did in school before the mission!! That’s funny.

 

Anyway we are still working with that family that is not married. They said they had a lot of work so they couldn’t fit in time to go the judge. I hope that they will finally just go and get it taken care of. We found a miracle this week with Cruz gone I could start concentrating more on the area instead of him, and I realized that we don’t have anything! So Elder Vazquez and I worked really hard to find more people and we found a family of 3 people on Friday. It was super sweet they had already heard the lessons and so we didn’t have to do anything more than invite them to church and they came. Now we will set a baptismal date and they will be good to go! I did hear that some of the youth girls were making fun of the daughter...that kind of made me mad so I talked to the young woman’s counselor and she said she is going to talk to them and see what happens. Other than that it went really good.

 

The ward was surprisingly excited to see that Elder Cruz had left. That’s kind of sad but the truth is the truth and the bishop told me he was also thinking about calling president about the whole situation. What I told you guys was just a little bit of what was actually going on. But it’s all over so I don’t need to worry about it anymore. but I do feel bad for his companion that he has right now.

 

This week we had another family of 4 that we were waiting for the parents to get married and what not. This is a family that I don’t think I have told you about. Their kids are already baptized and the parents still have not been baptized. That’s kind of cheap missionary work baptizing kids without their parents being married. Sometimes stuff like that happens here in Mexico. But what happened is the mom just decided to forget about the whole thing and just left her husband because apparently he doesn’t want to get baptized. That what she told us but who really knows. She will get baptized this week. The bishop had been working with them because of some complications, but he told me to go ahead with the baptism.

I don’t know why we have been working with so many people that are not married lately, but that’s just how it goes sometimes.

Anyway a little bit about Mexico. They have these things called Tiangies...I think that’s how you spell them. They are basically little stores of goods in the street. It is like a tarp hanging up and some tables with some products on them. They’re huge here and super popular so look up "Mexican tiangies San Felipe de Jesus of Mexico" on youtube and see what comes up I bet you can find a video or two that would show you what it’s like. Just imagine this if everybody in the neighborhood had a garage sale and everybody participated. and they sold everything from Mormon garments to contact lenses but all in the streets. then you have tiangies! Ha-ha ok Mormon garments that’s a little bit much but they do sell them here in a place called "Tepito." You can look that one up too if you want. I guess some people robbed a distribution truck that was headed for the temple and then sold all the goods at Tepito! Wow somebody is gonna get condemned for that one!

 

Alright, mom had a few questions

Tulancingo is a lot different and much slower, here less people listen to you but there are so many people. You can knock so many more doors here than in tulancingo, and contact more. We tract a ton here. People are busy and almost never home.

 

Mexican sacrament meetings are like that as everybody rushes the pulpit on fast Sundays. I will leave it up to you as the reason why I don’t want to be judgmental like sometimes I can be. My companion said that in his other ward the meeting took an hour and a half because everybody wanted to share their testimony.

 

My companion and I have started something new we have decided to go to the internet place in the morning and print our letters and then just write after, but this morning Dad’s letter wasn’t there. It’s just so I have more time to write here plus the letters are getting really long and dad took the cake with a 4 pager today. I’m sure I will enjoy it and will print it off to read the whole thing.

 

I heard Brynlee almost died --that’s not very good. Tell Brynlee not to hide from her babysitter anymore and to watch out because her babysitter "knows things" ha-ha that’s a funny inside joke. Tell Parker its I-270 he has to take to get to the stake center if I remember right. I probably wasted my fare share of gasoline flippin Uy`s in St.Louis ha-ha and that was with a gps.

 

Anyway thanks for everything you do. I am not getting Spencer’s letters just the ones you send to me. Sounds like he is getting a ton of mail and by the way grandma broke a record with all the special changes and interviews that we had I got a letter in 10 days. I think the date was the 3 of August and I got the letter on the 13th of August. What a cool treat to be so close the mission offices. Things are good and I will talk to you next week.

Oh grandma, I am getting all of your letters, the ones you send through pouch and the ones you send in the mail.

 

Elder Hendricks