October 11, 2010

herro me famirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDD . k. sorrrry for not writing last week we had to go to guadalajara for pday to get some more stuff from the offices that we needed to get things started here in chapala. we got there and spent all pday MAKIN COPIES of stuff and getting all the stuff we didnt have. i still bought a tie though :O ummm so yeah we didnt have anytime to do anything else then that night we got back here to chapala at about 1030 and i was soooo exhausted. we took a taxi from the bus station to our house and we always talk to the taxi drivers about the gospel and the things i was saying didnt make any sense i was like ´so...you believe in God?....` hahaha this week was way crazy too though i dont think ive ever been so tired in my life. we leave early and get home late and then sleeping is the best thing. this town is hilarious. its like 30% white OLD people and they dont speak any spanish so on busses and stuff they just yell ´I WANNA GET OFF!´ hahahahhaha they are all way ornery it seems like and always wear hawaiian flower shirts and stuff like real retired people hahahaha its so funny. theres this couple named jim and joan REED and he is soooooo ornery and mean and shes the sweetest old lady ever hahaaha they had us over at their house this week for lunch and we got there and the lady was like ´IM SOO SORRY I FORGOT THE POTATOES!´ and jim´s like ´DAG NABBIT JOAN you ALWAYS do this!´ hahahahhaha me and my comp were just trying to make her feel better and my comp has to try to speak english its sooo funny hes like ´eets okay seester reed...´ hahahahhaha ohhh i wish someone was here to see what i live every day! hahaha one day this week my comp got sick at about 730 at night so we went back to the house and he got in bed and i finally just had time to sit and think. it felt soooo good i didnt sleep or anything i just sat in a chair for ever and just let my brain stop for a leetle. so i guess the sunday before we got here only 11 people came to church and you should see the church its so leetle so anwyays me and my comp worked and went with as many people as we could and talked to soooo many people and yesterday there were 50 people at church! it was way cool. it was testimony day and people kept saying in their testimonies how happy they were to have missionaries here haha it made me happy so that was cool. so on saturday we decided to dedicate the area and we wanted to do it on top of this mountain that over looks all of chapala and the lake and stuff and its kinda by our house so we looked around for a little bit for a trail and never saw one, so we decided to just start hiking which was the worst idea EVER hahhahahaha it was seriously like a jungle. ya know how in the movies theres the long vines that hang down and they cut them with machetes? those really exist and it really would have been nice to have something to cut them with haha so it was soooo thick with trees and weird animal sounds and soo humid, and as we got closer to the top it was getting steeper and steeper and i seriously didnt know if we were gonna get to the top but we finally did and my comp was sweating so bad hahah we got to the top and hes like `are you keeding me?` hahahaha but when we got up there the view was SOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOL ohhhh my heck we took some pictures then said a prayer to dedicate the area. we looked around up there for an easier way down cuz there was NO WAY we could get back down the way we got up and sure enough there was this nice leetle trail and some parts even had STAIRS hahhahahahahahhahahaha like remember the movie almost heroes when chris farley goes through all that to get to the beach and there was a little path the whole time? it was EXACTLY like that haha but when we come back here we have to hike up to the top cuz its so cool ill try to send some pictures really quick. its been weird eating with the members here cuz they are either way rich white people that take us to restaurants or have us eat at their house with all their way nice dishes and stuff, or we eat in little concrete huts with the mexicans and something the mexicans do here that they didnt in morelia is they dont use utensils its so weird but its kinda fun to me now. like saturday we ate with a mexican family and we had chicken (i think :/ ) and beans and rice and no utensils at all haha so you just pick everything up with your fingers haha i kinda like it better. anyways thanks for all you guys do!!!....love you guys tons and miss you lots! write me this week and i´ll seeeeee yaaa layyyyturrrr!