Well this most certainly has been a long week, yet a short week. It is possible for me to print things. I am not sure about the pictures. But my shoes have been doing just fun and don´t seem like they are close to dying. I could play the piano if I wanted to do. Sundays are actually really funny to me with the music. It always sounds like a funeral march to me since sometimes we have the piano player and other times we don´t. When there is the piano player, he doesn’t know how to read left hand I think. So he just pounds the same chord for the entire song. I just think is hilarious. Honestly, I am sometimes amazed the some of our investigators come back to church.
The new car looks quite fancy, but I am surprised that you bought a red car, and not like a blue car. But the name little red just reminds me of a scout camp song, “you can´t ride in my little red wagon, one wheels missing and the axel’s draggin.” Brandton probably knows it.
Very slowly I am getting better with the Spanish, but it is hard when you rarely have language study in the morning very much. We just have so many meetings. With the medicine, Im just going to have to make do without it, since the pharmacies I talked to have told me that they don´t have it. So oh well.
On Tuesday, they had a meeting for all the missionaries in their first 12 weeks. And to be honest I do not like this training period, since it is the same stuff I was told for 6 weeks in the CCM. But they talked a lot about obedience to all of the rules. And during this meeting they separated the new missionaries and the trainers, so I felt like it almost turned into a tattle tale session. But they gave us pizza at the end, so that was nice. We had another meeting the next day, which I could not focus on to save my life. So I’m not sure exactly what I got out of it.
One of the investigator, Misael came to church again and we have been working a lot with him. During one of the exchanges that I got to stay in my area for, we gave him a date for baptism for December 6. He truly has been prepared. He is the father of the converts we baptized my second week. We have so many people I think are going to get baptized this next month, but we´ll see. Since there is the possibility of me leaving at transfers. We think that one of us will be leaving the area, either me or Elder Zorrilla, but you never know. We also had another family come to church and families are the focus of the mission. They are named Christian and Beatriz. And they did not like sacrament meeting very much. But later in the night, we had a lesson with the members who showed us these people and they pretty much gave the lesson and I didn’t say anything.
Drunk people are still really funny, since they will talk to us and is hard to get away. But they sometimes try to preach to us about stuff. And they tell us some interesting things. Like apparently there is and 8 hour time difference between here and Japan, which I don´t think is true.
I feel like sometimes other missionaries believe that I can´t do anything and just always teach the lesson. And you know me, I normally don´t just barge in and talk while someone else is normally. But I kind of am waiting for this training period to be over, and then others might have more confidence in me. But I am trying to learn as much as I can to be the best missionary that the Lord needs me to be. Thanks for your support and love, I probably won´t get any of the packages until about Christmas time or later. I am grateful for all you do for me.
Elder Ferrin
