Week 31 - Changes

So, this week has been pretty good.

I’m in the “Pantitlan el Palmar 3” ward, in a Colonia (colony) named “el sol calle 31” if you want to look it up on google earth. My companion is Elder Luna he is from Tampico, Tamaulipas, I think I spelled that wrong. Mexico we were in the same district in ixtla. he is super cool a little disobedient, which is always hard but ill help him with that. Hahahaha theres a scripture in DyC that talks about putting the strong with the week, and he definitely strong in ways I’m not also. He is super good at speaking to people connecting he’s a people person, I definitely have things to learn from him too.
So we got to the area and dropped our stuff off in the house of the elders who are in palmar 2 where we slept for one day. the area is super organized it’s a grid with streets numbered from 1 to 40 with house numbers that start all at one and all the odds are on one side of the street and the evens are on the other side. so finding people is not difficult because you cant really mess up the directions. So looking for the less actives is easy cause the directions are actually real.

On Wednesday we moved into our house and to move into our house we had to take all of the stuff of the sister out. Practically she could have made it onto hoarders pretty much each room in the house was full of just stuff. Old newspapers broken appliances tons of pans dishes and plates and a lot more random stuff. We spent all day cleaning the house, but its super cool three stories 5 rooms I have my own closet I sleep in like a queen sized bed, I have a real desk not just a plastic table to study on.
Oh and when we were cleaning the house we left to go find cardboard boxes to pack some of the stuff. We went to like a market in the store and some lady walked up to me and said: “Hi Elders, blah blah blah.” Anyway, we thought she was a member and we got her address and her phone number to meet with her later, not a member someone super ready to hear the gospel knows a lot about the church though, she wants to get married in the temple and have a family like that, cause she’s been married 3 times and divorced twice and is only 30 years old. it is interesting that she was married three times and she didn’t just move in with some guy three times. hahaha miracle person that wants to get baptized she asked us after church when we stopped by hey when are you going to baptize me? haha so thats a family of four, that we’re going to teach baptism and prepare for the temple, in the house we live in the sister has two daughters and the boyfriend of one has been coming to church for 3 month-ish and she’s been teaching him, and reading the BoM with him. they are both lawyers so thats cool haha but it makes it hard to teach him cause he’s only at our house at like 9 at night, so i think we are going to get to bed late…. idk and i surely hope he’s not been staying the night. but who knows.

We’ve found a bunch of members and people with potential, we found the super old lady who’s been a member for like all her life and she’s 92 i think, i have no idea why if she got married in the temple her children didn’t get baptized but there is a family that lives there that almost got baptized when they lived in the US but when the returned to Mexico the fell off the map, that family has a lot of potential.

Idk I’m really excited about the work here, normally opening an area is hard but this has been easier than my previous area.

And there’s WALMART! Theres a plaza named plaza jardin that has a ton of really cool stores we went to Walmart and I splurged and spent like 500 pesos. In my old area I spent like max when I was buying food 200. Hahaha but I felt like I was practically in the US. WALMART. A real store.
Idk, what else happened this week… oh I feel like in this area they’ve never seen like a white person before I get way more people staring at me and all the women and like teenage girls like stare and me it’s actually pretty hilarious.

So this area is completely flat not a hill in the area, I surely hope I don’t gain weight, and that ill be able to sleep cause honestly I’m not tired at night when its time to go to bed, like before I walked in the apt. and nearly collapsed, here I cook an egg make a sandwich putz around take a shower cause it feels nice… and then go to bed.

Do you guys watch the mormon messages? The make a new one every month and I really like the one that came out in the last month, its called like the hope of gods light, look it up its cool.

I’m great and I hope ya’ll are doing good.

Love you guys,
Elder Blotter

I got transferred to an area named “El Palmar 3 Pantitlan”.

I’m opening this area with Elder Luna, we’re both new here he was in my district in ixtla, were I was before

Oh and a before and after pic of the study room.

Soooo the pics are of the coolest mission house I’ve ever seen. Yes, that is a real kitchen the first one I’ve seen in the mission with a functioning oven and with although not a full size fridge at least its big.