Ala Mecha

Hey everyone, It's your amigo! And things Have been pretty good in the teaching area! The only bad part is we can't leave houses. I don't know if it because Chan is to nice to say no, or what. But we stay at peoples houses forever! 

On Tuesday we woke up did our mission work, and then went to a members house for luch at 2:00. We then left there house at 7:00! Im not even kidding. We where there for eternity. The food was good, but the goal was not to stay till dinner. She gave us a list of the inactive members, and other good info. But that was at like hour 2. The rest was us talking about history, and aliens. I've always had a big imagination, but now it crazy what I can do in there. I find my self there a lot, because I really can't understand that much. I've been building my dream house. I can go room to room, its pretty sweet. It is really big, and has a bat cave. If your ever bored, come visit me, and my cool house. 

A couple cool things happend with finding people. First we had a super member call us, and tell us he wanted us to teach a lesson with him. He has been teaching this grandma by himself for a few days. And the lesson went really well. He pretty much taught the whole time. It was pretty nice! 

 Second, a couple weeks ago when I was eating the Nacho Libre corn we ran into a guy named Carlos. He loves me because im White, and speek english. So we have been texting back and forth. One day me and Elder Chan got a referencia from someone who liked a YouTube video that our Church sent out. So we called the guy, and it was Carlos! So we have been teaching Carlos, and things have been going good with him. I was pumped because we where going to come back the next day amd teach him some more. I told Chan that I was exited, and he was like, "ohh I forgot to tell you we are going on splits in 20 mins, so you won't be teaching Carlos tomorrow." That made me pretty disapointed for a couple reasons. I wanted to teach, and Elder Greogorio (the guy I was going on a split with) is really lazy. That night I was sent home with Elder Gregorio, and Elder Ely took my spot. The apt I stayed in was so gross! I am thankfull for my apartment, I don't have as many bugs, and my toilet isn't Black. Gotta love México.

Elder Ely was not joking with me about his experience. We woke at 6:30, Elder G talked with a friend untill 9:00, and we finally left the house at 2:00. For lunch. In that time I read 5 Chapters from the BOM, and all of Joseph Smith history to the end of the Pearl of Great Price. We then just sat at the church for the rest of the day till we switched back. Chan, and Ely taught Carlos for a long time, so we didn't switch till 9:30. Ely was pumped because that was the first time he had done anywork in 6 weeks. But It was cool seeing him so happy, but I was a little jelous because they Invited Carlos to babtism, and I wanted to be there for that. It's all good though, Ely needed a win. And Carlos wasn't ready yet, so we will keep teaching him. It was so late we all just slept in me and Chans apt. 

Sunday was Transfers. So our zone met at a buss stop to say goodbye to E. Jarvis, and Hna Gutiarez. It was hard to see Jarvis leave. He was my White zone leader, so he helped me out a lot. But im happy for him. After we got the call that me and Chan are not getting transferd. Im happy to be in Cinco de mayo for another transfer because we have Carlos, but I wish I got another trainer. Elder Chan is nice, and pretty good. But he does not seem to like me at all. That has been pretty rough, and makes it so I feel really lonley. I wanted to change that this transfer, so I asked Chan how I could help out more, and be a better missionary. His responce makes me think things arn't going to change. I asked him if we could set some comp goals, and try to improve these next 6 weeks as a companionship. He shut me down pretty Quick, and told me president gave us goals, so we shouldnt make any more. He then told me I need to stop asking him for feed back. If I want to change then that has to be up to me, and he can't do anything about. He told me to stop focusing on how I can help him, and start focusing on how I can help the mission. And then told me I needed to study more, and pray more. I was pretty ticked at the response for multiple reasons. I was just trying to be nice, and help him out more. But littraly 100% of my day is trying to do missionary work, and help the mission. And I study like a mad man, but half the time he cuts my studying. We also have done comp study twice. It really bugged me because Every thought I have is about me trying to be a better missionary. And littraly that day I bore my testimony on how I pray a thousand times a day, and how that has helped me. It's the worst not being able to comunícate how I feel. Learning a New language has been so difficult because it cuts out all of my strenghts. Comunícating is something I can do really well, so not being able to do the one thing I like doing has been killing me inside. I hate being treated like a child. Things are just hard out here. Thats my Ted my talk for the day. But even though things are difficult, I can feel joy. At the end of everyday, I write in my journal, and when I relflect I remember the moments where I love it out here, and see all the tender mercys God has given me. He really has given me the strenghts to Last one more day. Or in my case 6 weeks. I finish every Entry with 5 things im gratefull for, 3 things I liked about my day, and one thing I like about myself. This has helped me stay optimistic, because when optimism is your super power the evil one can not discurage, or decive you. Love you all! And stay positive, because lifes better when you do.

Fotos

1. My main man Chan

2. The devils way of getting to me

3. Yoga with Trumpos