September 30, 2010

herrrrrrrrrrrrrro familrrrrrrrryyyyyyy!!!!! ha k i have lots of things to EXPLAIN. hahah ok so last week on sunday me and my comp get home from working and we are getting dates together and everything and we talk to the zone leaders at like 11 and they said that president was sending me to open up a new area called chapala. no body knew really where it was or what it was like so we got asking and its like 45 minutes south of guadalajara. they said that i had to pack and be at the bus station at 830 monday morning. so i got all my stuff packed and i have so much crap! ayways it was way sad cuz me and elder smith got along way good and i loved our ward and just everything. jose luis came over and helped me pack until about midnight then he went home. in the morning tomás came over to say bye and it was so sad hahah i didnt really know how attached i was to these guys haha anyways so jose luis drove me to the bus station and then my new comp got there named elder GONGORA from cancun. hes...coooooool.....hahahha :/ hes big and round and has about a year in the mission. from there i had to say bye to elder smith and that was sad but we rode on the bus to guadalajara and got to the offices and just ended up hanging out there all night cuz president wanted to explain stuff to us but couldnt until tuesday, so we spent the night at the offices then in the morning we got ready and the president came. he took us into his office and talked to us about chapala. he said that the ward here speaks ENGLISH and that makes it so that the mexicans dont wanna go to church so there are tons and tons of inactive mexicans and only like 25 people that go to church in total, so we have to go to the inactive mexicans houses and get them to come back to church and as soon as we have a big enough ward they are going to split it into 2 branches-one english speaking and one spanish speaking. he looked at us before we left and he´s like ´this assignment is the most important thing thats happening in our mission right now. dont let me or the lord down.´ hahahhahahahahahahahahahhahha i was like ´ughm. k.´ so the secretaries drove us in the van the 45 minutes from the offices to chapala. we were on the way there and there was a part where you drive over a hill and you can see all of chapala and it felt like something on a movie hahah its the prettiest place ive ever been in my whole life i think. the town is built on the banks of this HUGE lake and then the town is surrounded by these HUGE mountains that are soooooo GREEN they are covered in those rain forest type trees and they are soooo cool. when they bought our apartment they thought that there was gonna be 4 missionaries, but its just me and my comp so we have this huge apartment thats sooo sweet all to ourselves haha its so cool and it overlooks the lake. its so sweet here we HAVE to come back and visit i just wanna go swimming in the lake or just go to the beach or something cuz theres all these piers and the whole town is covered in palm trees and stuff. the reason that the ward speaks english is cuz a lot of old people move here to retire so all the members are either inactive mexicans or 90 year old white people hahahhhah when we got here we put all our stuff in the apartment then went to the church (which is the size of the gym of our church) and met the bishop. hes this 85 year old white guy named DON WYVELL hahahhaahhahahahhahhh ohhhh my gosh me and my comp have been so weirded out hahah so we talked to him for a while on tuesday and got some ward lists printed out but everything here is such a mess. its been hard cuz neither one of us knows where we are and our house is way dirty and has nothing so we had to get all moved in and today we cleaned all morning, and we had to buy a bunch of stuff that all the houses need and its just been a way long process. yesterday we set up an appointment with this lady named sister EDNA hahha so we went to her house and shes this 88 year old white lady that lives in this gated community and its soooo nice hahahah oh my gosh im moving here. so we talked to her then she invited us to ´supper´ hahahah so we went with her and 2 of her mexican friends that she invited and we went and ate at this outdoor restaurant that was sooo good oh my gosh. it was so funny cuz they all 3 were so old and the mexicans dont speak english and she doesnt speak spanish so they just yell back and forth in their native language trying to get their sentence across hhaha ohh my gosh its so funny. so she bought us hamburgers there and i seriously am so bad at speaking english i feel like this biggest idiot hahahah she was asking me about the family and about the mission and i wasnt making any sence im gonna be so dumb when i get home. me and my comp have been working way hard im exhausted just cuz theres so much stuff to do. last night we were up late trying to get these ward lists figured out and where people live and trying to get to know everyone and get the house set up but at the same time trying to find new people to teach and baptize its been stressful but its been good. anyways so thats whats going on with me hahah my comp is freaking out cuz we go places and 3/4 are white people speaking english hahahahha it really is so weird. its way cool here though you guys have to look it up on google or google earth or something cuz it seriously looks like a place out of a magazine. i havent really been able to take very many pictures cuz we´ve been way busy but i´ll try to take some more before i write again on monday. wish you could be here in paradise with me but....love you guys tons and look up chapala! your gonna die hahah love you guys BYEBYEBYEB!