Sooooo, I finally have stuff to write about.
Tuesday
Today was the transfer
day, so I flew from Bogota to Medellin. Our flight was delayed because the
pilot didn´t show up to work. Latinos are like that. The flight was pretty
short, but I got a cool view of the great Andes. We got to Medellin and took a
bus to the mission home. Everything is super cheap here, by the way. I had an
interview with the President and later his wife, and they both asked if anybody
in my home had spoken spanish. They were surprised when I said no. Go figure. I
learn fast but speaking is difficult. I can understand the jist of most
conversations at this point. I was assigned my companion that night, along with
an area. Elder Ampuño is my trainer, as well as the district leader. He is from
Guayaquil Ecuador My area is Manizales, the coldest and most mountaineous in the
mission. Just my luck right? but coldest in Medellin isn´t really that cold. We
slept at the apartment for transferring missionaries, including those
missionaries that were finishing their missions. Pretty cool, but I fell of the
bed in the middle of the night onto my companion. Not surprising though, seeing
as my bed was a mattress that I threw on top of a bunch of foam pads. Not
the sturdiest thing in the world. But hey, he chose to sleep in the hall
right next to me, so it isn´t completely my fault. Nobody is hurt, and he has
had his revenge by now
Wednesday
Six hour bus ride through
the Andes, and we arrived in manizales! My spanish degenerated in those six
hours somehow, but it is being rebuilt, slowly but surely. We visited a less
active family that night after waiting out some heavy rain and thunder. It
rains a lot here, but it waits until we are out of the apartment. The family
zamora is pretty cool,but it seems like they just want to be friends with the
elders for now. We went and met the bishop, who is twenty six or something.
he´s pretty awesome. Then we stayed the night at the zone leader´s apartment,
celebrating 16 months in the mission for him.
Thursday
We had lunch with a
member. Probably the biggest challenge on the mission. The food. To drink she
gave us tomato juice, I don´t know what was in the soup, too much rice,
potatoes too. Basically, they feed us like you would feed a polynesian. Eat
until you are tired.We went to visit a reference and ended up talking to a
recent convert that has gone less active because she thinks we use the BoM too
much more than the bible. I think we will be working with her more. visited two
families for noche de hogar, which I thought would be on mondays but whatever.
The Castro family fed us dinner,and it was edible, though still too much.
Chocolate is better than tomato juice, let me tell you. Then we went to the
zamora family again. My comp likes chilling with them I think. I don´t think we
did anything else that day
Friday
We had lessons with our only
investigaters today. One is Adrian, and he is a drug addict that is struggling
a lot. He has a great desire, and he feels the spirit when he is with us, but
drugs are tough. The other is Tatiana, and she talks ten billion miles an hour.
She is getting baptized next week The missionary in this area before me
was really trunky and just a bad missionary in general, so we are essentially
reopening this area to the missionaries after six weeks of laziness. But hey!
All the more fun for me. The members have been a big help with tatiana, as far
as I understand. Apparently people around here are really gossipy, so that
can´t help new members much
Saturday
We went and observed
another companionship in our district work, so we just helped them with their
people today. They have a big family that has committed to be baptized, and
they´re pretty cool. They have a little kid jorge and he is really fun.
unfortunately, he is in a different area, so I won´t get to see him much. One
of the eldersin the other companionship is from Utah, so we talked in English
and had a blast. His companion is really trunky, so they do a lot of work, but
every other day.
Sunday
Church for a bit, then we
had to go to another area to give a baptismal interview. We visited a less
active family that has a bunch of young kids. The kids are being taught in a
Catholic school, so we have to clarify some stuff that they have got confused,
like the Godhead and other stuff. The oldest son is really good at chess. But
I´m better Haha! Well, actually he beat me the first game and I won quickly in
the second. but he is like ten, so I guess I just have to boast of the spirit,
because I have never studied chess like he has. We had lunch with the Castros,
and the ward is making a trip to the temple in this next week. We visited the
zamoras again, and they were watching a movie, so we just kind of sat around
for about an hour and they gave us some dinner.
Anyway, that´s my week!
Spanish, food, and my comp a bit, these are my only troubles in the mis.
Happy Birthday CJ! Don´t worry, the padres were in Hawaii for my sweet sixteen.
At least you will still have dad to coddle you haha. If anything happens to the
Truck, I don´t want to hear about it. But let me know everything else cool,
choir songs and the like. Mom, I didn´t get any letters or packages, so if that
helps you gauge time, there you go! We get to email for three or four hours,
and we start after zone meetings end. Something like 11:45 or 12. So probably
pretty early for you guys, but it goes for a while, so I have time to write big
ol´things like this
We are in a ward, it´s a
city in a valley, but we are up on the mountains. We walk most everywhere and
take taxis when we go to other areas or when we need to get somewhere quickly.
We saw a giant bee yesterday in our apartment trying to get out the window. I
couldn´t figure out how to get the hot water going, so I´ve been taking cold
showers. I only knew we had hot water because my companion took a twenty minute
shower. We got food from a restaurant called the casa de arroz, meaning house
of rice, so I was understandably excited. Turned out, it´s essentially a bucket of rice.
I´ll send you a picture. It has lasted us a few days now
So yeah, Love ya all
Elder King
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