This week was quite an interesting one! MEXICO! What has it done to my body? This week I broke out in a super nasty rash that has about covered a lot of my body and is super red and itches like the devil! We went to the doctor on Sunday. We went on Sunday because I was basically dying it hurt so bad! Anyway I told the doctor I didn’t speak very much Spanish and then started explaining what happened. Then she just busted out talking really fast and using words that I had never heard before. Even my companion said he was a little lost. But she said I had somehow gotten a fungus or something that has basically came out of my body in all the areas that sweat a lot. That gives you an idea, so my armpit is super red and other areas ha-ha... but she gave me some medicine and when I took the medicine the rash got bigger really fast. But it doesn’t hurt as bad so who knows!
Questions
How do the wards deal with the number of new converts? Wards work hard to help out some don’t really help that much...I have never had a ward member visit a new convert without being asked by me to do it.
That’s kind of sad but that’s how it goes in Mexico.
What do they do to help retain them? Retaining new converts here is extremely low. Everybody says that it’s a problem but they are waiting for somebody else to do it this is the feeling I have gotten.
Your companion has braces. Does he have orthodontists there or how does he get them adjusted?
He got braces in the mission he was walking around in his other area and found a dentist that puts braces on for about 2000 pesos that’s 200 dollars more or less. This week we went to the dentist. To get everything checked out. The dentist...she’s not an orthodontist checked them out and adjusted everything she told us that she didn’t know all that much about braces but she did what she could...Hilarious! Then I let her look at my teeth and she stuck her little mirror in my mouth and then after about 30 seconds she asked me what I use on my teeth, so she could recommend it to other people because she told me my teeth were the healthiest she had seen in all here years as a dentist…ha-ha! I told her I just got them checked up and cleaned every year and that I don’t drink very much soda...I guess we pay a ton of cash in the US to have a teeth cleaned and all but it shows as Mexican’s teeth can get pretty gross. I think it’s for all the soda they drink pure Coca-Cola. There are Mexicans that say that Coca-Cola is against the word of wisdom but there is also a scripture that says "cursed is him that adds to the commandments of God"
Somewhere in 2nd Nephi so I always teach people that it’s not against the word of wisdom because it doesn’t say anything in D&C 89 about caffeine or soda. And if God wanted us to stop drinking soda he would have revealed that to us. Anyway I felt pretty good about it.
How is the food there? Is it more like Tulancingo or Pachua?
It’s all about the same they eat a lot of Nepales in Tulancingo that’s because there is a lot of cactus out there.
Anyway we baptized last Sunday and today. Some elders from other areas came down to celebrate a little. Who knows if they had permission from president but whatever. There were a lot of problems with the baptismal font. For some reason there is no water in the church so we had to use a pump and pump it out from another tank. In Mexico all the churches have underwater tanks that hold a lot of water and then the pump (almost everybody has a pump) pumps the water up to a tank above the house so you have water pressure. But the normal pump is broken and the other one I had to prime to get it to work. So I primed the pump and the water ran, but then I think the pump broke or something because when we came back there wasn’t any water running through the hose and the pump was just running dry. So with about 2 feet of water we baptized a man who is missing an arm so he was kind of scared that he was going to fall and not be able to pick himself back up. But it all worked out. Another Elder baptized him – the same missionary that baptized his wife about a year ago.
Anyway that’s about it --have a good one!
Later, Elder Hendricks
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