Hey fam,
So this last week was way good! I actually like it a lot here in the
Colonia, its super chill and the people are really nice and willing to
listen. Last week, we actually had a baptism of a less actives
daughter. it was really cool, especially cuz we had to do it in an
erectable baptismal font made out of pipes and a tarp haha our church
is so ghetto!!!! we´re in an old bread factory, and they built like
little shacks of wood inside for the individual classrooms and such.
i took pictures, but this computer sucks and is old and wont read my
usb thing. so youre all gonna have to wait! haha But yeah the little
girl that got baptized was named Cristina Soledad Vaca. Really cool.
And we´re going to baptize the Branch President´s little brother this
week!
Also, i have a new comp here and his name is Elder Lessing. He´s
originally from Utah, but his dad is military so they are currently
living in Pennsylvania. Really cool guy, and he actually reminds me a
lot of elder inman, so we get along great. its just the two of us
that live together in the apartment, and thats super different. the
apartment is really small too. But one good thing about it is that it
has air conditioning!!!! We live in a sub tropical zone, so even
though we´re in "winter" its still freakin hot here. We experienced
that today haha There is actually a sports complex close to where we
live, and its totally free, so me and my comp went and played
basketball this morning. hes pretty good, so he was teaching me how
to shoot and whatnot. but we went back in the afternoon and there
were games going on, and just anyone can play, so we joined in and
played for a while! latins suck so bad at basketball, and because they
suck so bad they play super dirty.....on top of that they have a latin
temper, so if you stuff them youre likely to hear a lot of bad words
and maybe a hard shove in the back next time you go up for a lay up.
one older guy like raped me from behind when someone passed me the
ball under the hoop and i was gonna turn around for a bank shot. he
basically hugged me from behind, and he had a giant wad of nasty
tabacco coke stuff in his mouth and smelled horrible. but us white
kids dominated all them latins haha i had 7 points!
Also this last week, i finished the Book of Mormon in Spanish for the
first time, and it was sick!!!! I guess according to that one promise
by a prophet im fluent in spanish now cuz i read the book of mormon
completely? pretty cool huh?
Ummm......what else. i wrote a little paper with all the stuff, but i
forgot it in the pension, so youll probably have a lot more info next
week. oh yeah, one thing! the people here are super poor, but this is
the first place in my whole mission where i have seen wooden houses!
they are like halfway nice too! haha but there is also the super poor
part of the area too where the houses are a bunch of sticks and
plastic tarps tied together, and its super sad. even more so because
the streets there just suck, cuz there are just ruts everywhere and
more often than not those ruts are filled with sewage.....nasty. but
there are a ton of members there, and we found a super good
investigator there last saturday night as well. His name is Carlos,
and we found him because we needed a guy to come with us to an
appointment because it was a woman and we cant enter with her there
alone. so we knocked his door, asked if he could come with us, and he
actually did! apparently he liked it cuz he told us to come by the
next day and he introduced us to his wife and family and theyre super
solid. we taught him saturday night and he came to church the next
day! also said he was going to come back the next week cuz he liked it
so much.
Speaking of church, like 50 people came to church on Sunday, so that
was cool. Apparently thats a pretty good number. But there are like
300 somethin members here in la colonia, so that kinda sucks
comparatively. So we´re going to be working a freaking ton with the
less actives i think. Also here, we are clear out in the freaking
middle of nowhere and have to travel so much!!!! our district meetings
on tuesdays are like almost an hour away from us and its like 30 pesos
to get out there and 30 to get back. we spend a freakin ton
travelling, and the guy who reimbolses everything in the office is
super slow at doing them, so my comp and his old comp told me they
went without eating a lot, cuz they spent all their money travelling
and had to wait for the reimbursals to get back. The reason why it
costs so much is cuz we also have to travel almost every weekend to do
baptismal interviews cuz my comp is district leader, and we baptize a
lot here in the zone......except for our area. the one last week was
the first one in 3 months. but we´re going to change that!!!!
and mom as for your question if i got to say goodbye to anyone.....the
answer is no haha luckily my convert juan was there at the church with
us and i could hug him and tell him goodbye. but they called at like
9 o clock sunday night and told us and we actually had to evacuate
perico that night at like 12 because a bunch of pissed off tobacco
farmers were going to cut off all travel routes in and out of perico
the next morning.....talk about sketchy. that was fun travelling to
the zone leaders house in juuy centro. and it sucks not saying
goodbye!!!! but i left a journal back there for all my converts to
sign and for a few members, so hopefully ill at least have that.
i feel like i had so much more to tell you guys, but i dont
remember.....i think i wrote a lot already though, right? i promise i
wont forget next week, and ill tell you even more! haha but thanks for
writing me every week and all the support, have fun at the 4th of july
without me!!!! dominate some little kids in volleyball at the park for
me! love you all, and hope to hear from you next week!
Con amor,
Elder Sirrine
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