Hmm okay this week has been crazy. So when we first arrived our Mission President was only expecting 4 missionaries but there where 9 of us instead so at the last minute he had to call 5 more trainers. The first day we didn’t do anything besides sit in the church. The first night in Mexico I was welcomed by 17 mosquito’s sucking my blood. It was not a good night. Presidente finally got everything figured out and my trainer is Elder Martinez, he is from Tampico, Mexico. He is really cool and we get along fine for the most part because I just keep my mouth shut. He knows a little English and he wants me to teach him more, so we only speak in English until its time to teach a lesson then we switch over to Spanish, which really screws me up, but whatever!!
The people here are freaking crazy!! I got in a taxi and honestly told myself that it was the end because they don’t know how to drive down here and there are no rules on the road! Haha! Yesterday we went to some random church and the preacher was just screaming Spanish or something because I didn’t understand what he was saying but he was just screaming at the people. At first I was laughing but then I started feeling bad cause the people that were there are completely lost. I just don’t know how they could believe in screaming. I just wish that I could talk to them about the true gospel and what it truly means to be happy. I couldn’t, all I could do is sit on the other side of the fence and listen to the preacher rant!!
So I asked Elder Martinez what we were going to do the second day that I was in our area and he said we are just going to walk a couple blocks and teach a few lessons. Ha so being the confident little cocky kid that I am I just laughed and said that’s it! Then I came to realize that each block is about 3 miles long. We ended up walking about 9 miles that day and yea I’m still tired from that day. Speaking of being tired, when I wake up in the morning I feel so much more tired than what I do during the day. Its like sleep makes me tired down here.
So Friday we woke up and while we were studying it started to rain and let me tell you what when it rains down here it RAINS!! The streets were flood within minutes and I thought that we would just wait until it cleared up, but no my companion said that we were going out. I was like yea right are you seeing this and he was like yea its fine and I was like no I’m not going out in this rain and then he gave me this big long talk about how he is the senior companion and how I need to listen to him. So we went out and made it down the street and he turn to me and said lets wait under this until the rain stops. In my head I was thinking like why didn’t we just stay in our house where it was dry and we could be studying, but no we had to walk half a mile and get completely wet and then wait another hour for it to clear up. I was so mad! And then last night the same thing happened. I told him that we should head home because a storm was coming and he said lets go teach this hermana before which wasn’t bad cause the lesson was really good but yea it started raining again and everything flooded. The taxis were all stopped in the middle of the road because they could move, so we walked 3 miles home in the rivers that were formed. Then when we got home my companion said we had to take our clothes to a member’s house to wash them. Again I thought OK it must be just down the street. Yea right it was like 6 miles away. So here we go again walking down the rivers in the street for another 6 miles. It was just awesome. I was so mad yesterday.
OK now for the good! Last night we taught Hermana Gorgia, and we taught her about the Book of Mormon and how if she reads it that she will know the truth. I talked about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and that Jesus Christo is his only begotten son and then I went on about how the Book of Mormon is the word of God. When I was all finished I promised her that if she read the book of Mormon and prayed with a sincere heart and really ask God if it was true that she would receive an answer!! Awe this is the best part when you can promise someone that if they do this they will know!! After I gave her 3 Nephi 11 to read. I love 3 Nephi. I have been studying it a lot because it happened somewhere here where I’m living. That’s just crazy stuff to think that Jesus was once here walking around with the Nephite’s.
Sorry I am out of time but I love you all!! Miss you like crazy! Church is true.
Sorry for the bad writing this Mexican keyboard is weird.
Love Elder Berry
Elder Parduhn, Brody and Elder S
