Ok so this week has been a rollercoaster.
When I first got to my
place I went inside and honestly wanted to cry. There was trash everywhere and
it smelt horrible and I saw a cockroach and ants and was like nooooo.
But it is
all good because we spent probably 3 and a half hours cleaning it and now its
decent.
Another hard thing for this week is my Spanish. I learned that I can't
speak or understand it haha.
We visited this members house and my companion was
talking to the dad who spoke really fast and kind of had a slur when he spoke. And my companion asked if he could use the bathroom and as he was walking there he
turned around mouthed to me that I should try to speak to him. So I'm like
whatever and I said I like your Christmas decorations in Espanol, and this guy
went off and started talking for like 8 minutes to me.
I didn't understand a single
word. He asked me like 4 questions and I just said, "Si" to all of them, haha. Oh
man that was funny.
Another thing is I had no idea how many dogs and cats there
would be here. There is like billions.
There is this members house that
has like 5 dogs and 5 cats and is always really warm inside. It is my favorite place
to visit!
Yeah, it snowed here probably like an inch. It is reallllllly cold.
We
had one tiny little heater to heat our house that does nothing haha. Then some
other missionaries came over to the house to sleep because Elder Oaks was coming to
Chihuahua, but I'll get into that in a second. The other missionaries took our
broken heater and said sometimes it will work if you punch it so one missionary
was just banging this heater and punching it so much and nothing was
happening. Then his companion came over and said, "Con amor" which means "with love"
and then touched the heater gently and it turned on, it was really funny.
But yeah, Elder Oaks came to Chihuahua for a couple days to talk to the
missionaries and whoever wanted to come hear him. I got to shake his hand twice
which was pretty cool. He's a really cool guy.
One thing that I learned from him
that I want to share is that when we are praying with real intent, it doesn't
just mean that we are praying with a really bad desire to know an answer to a
question or something like that. It also means that we are praying with a
commitment that we will do whatever the answer to our pray instructs us to do. I
just thought that was interesting.
Oh also the snow storm just wrecked
everyone in Chihuahua. There was a bunch of crashes out, hot water froze so we
only had cold water and had to go out to our boiler and poor boiling water from
the stove onto it. It was an absolute mess but we got it working.
And
after the snow storm there was like a ton less dogs and cats running around. I
honestly think that so many of them died from the cold except for the ones that
had homes. Everyday when I walk by this one house this little dog runs from
under a car and attacks me, it's pretty funny.
Also I found Elder Templeton!! It was really nice to see a familiar face. He seems to be doing really good. We
were able to talk and catch up for a while which was fun.
Wow a lot has happened
this week lol. I feel like my Spanish is getting a lot better in just a week. I
can follow what people say sometimes and I can say about as much as a 4 year old
but it's all good.
I love you all! hasta luego
Jacob and Alec Templeton. They played basketball together at Brighton and Alec is one year older than Jacob.
