Monday, September 1, 2014

Week #27- feels like I've been gone for 6 days, not 6 months!

This week was pretty normal. I reached 6 months this week so I got to burn a tie. We have been taking a girl to seminary at about 5:30 in the morning for the past 2 weeks so I am really tired. We also teach classes of English in this area and it is really funny to hear them try to speak english, but some of them are really good and know a lot. The people here are really humble and want to listen to us so we are really happy for that. The hardest part here is that no one gets married but they have been living with their partner for longer than 20 years or so. It sucks because they can´t get baptized if they don´t live the law of chastity. This area is awesome but the people are different, they drink and smoke a lot so we see some pretty funny things. One morning we saw a guy drinking and walking with his friend and then he started to wobble and he fell. It was so funny and he just looked around to see if anyone saw him fall. We have a few people with a baptism date for next week but they aren´t really sure. They are more like a goal for them, so we will see how it goes. We also had interviews with our Mission President and they went really good. Our new president is really spiritual and does everything with love. I love our new president and I think he will make this mission even better. Other than that our week was pretty normal. We don´t have a church, it is just a building. I haven´t gotten the package yet and my companion hasn´t gotten one in a while. It feels like 6 days, not 6 months. it has gone so fast! I doesn´t rain very much here so I don´t think it will be mud...

Love Elder Monson