January 20, 2014

Familia,

 Well I have some bad news.... I am going home....... To Xalapa!

We got our changes this morning and they are opening up a new area in X alapa. I told everybody that I was going to go there and nobody believed me but yep, I am going to Xalapa tomorrow at 7 in the morning. It is, more or less, a 6 hour bus ride so yeah I am pretty stoked for that. I will be senor companion with an elder; I do not remember his name though.

Well this week was the end of the change and I blanked out. I did not baptize, which was a little hard and I felt pretty down because we had worked so hard. We had put 20 dates for baptisms with twenty different persons, and we had about 5 or 6 investigators in the church every week, but one by one they had all fallen this week.

We were going to have two baptisms, but then Clara could not make a decision on whether to marry or dump her husband and so she did not get baptized. Then her brother Lalo, who was going to be baptized, well his mom changed her mind and chased us away with a broom two times and kicked her daughter and her husband out of the house and would not let Lalo go with them. That was probably one of the hardest things that I have ever seen, this poor kid was crying. He only is eleven years old but has always had a problem with reading. I challenged him to read chapter 11 of 3 Nephi. Well he read all of it, just one verse a day, and he read all of it. He told us he wanted to be baptized to have a clean life and because God had helped him to read, but sadly not everyone can see the blessings of God in their lives and make decisions like the little children who have such strong faith. So that happened this week.

 Also we had a conference which was good, but other than that not much has happened.

 Well this part is for mom because she has been freaking out really bad. I had typhoid this week but I think that I have had it since the beginning of the transfer because there was one day where I just could not work and my whole body hurt and I wanted to throw up and had well the ‘d’ word. Then this last Sunday I threw up in the street after we had been helping people dig a well and then I was just really sick all week until my comp finally called Sister Lopez and she told me I had to go get my blood checked out and well yep, I have typhoid and it was a lot of typhoid. Luckily I have already started to feel better so I was able to work, well more or less, without problems. So that mom, has been my week, but don’t worry I still eat like the fat kid I am inside so don’t worry.

OH! Also the pictures. That is my friend Pancho the donkey. He contacted us in the street and well, we are working on his baptismal date but his Spanish is awful and I think he has a drinking problem. His face is always droopy and long and his eyes are always glazed. 

Elder Monsivais