First week in Ensenada

Well this week went well. We spent most the week with mexican doctors that dont know anything.... the first doctor says my companions foot has fungus growing and also a bad infection and that they cant do anything then the next day we go to another and they say that his foot is fine and that its just the burns that are keeping it from healing. The second one is right... as far as my trained professional eye can see. He has some serious burns on his foot. So obiosly it will take along time to heal, and there is alittle bit of infection, but minor. Anyways the doc. put him on rest for 2 weeks, so being zone leader here and not wanting to stop working, I brought 2 elders from a city like 3 hours away... oh yeah my zone has 4 elders like 3 hours away and 2 elders 11 hours away in guerrero negro. anyways, so its kinda hard to keep track of them. also we have 4 elders and 2 sis. here in ensanada. Anways, one of the Elders comes from a super poor family and worked his whole life so doesnt really know how to read, so my comp is teaching him to read while I go out with the other and try to work in a sector that I was only with my comp 2 days in. So its all new. But we had good success. We got 8 new investigators and set 3 bap. dates this week. All for who knows when in the end of sep. but whatever Ill see what we can teach have to make them go to church 5 times.

Life here really has been good though. There is alot of members that help us out. The only prob. is this 2 Elders showed up and didnt use the right money for there bus tickets.... they have a special fund for it. Anyways, so they have no money, I just spent 100 bucks on medical stuff for my comp and now I have got to buy them food and wash their clothes.... not cool. In the end the mission will send me the money back, but yeah it kinda a pain in the but.

Sorry this letter is super short, Ive got aton of stuff to do, and alot of people to wite this week. But I love you all tons.

Get out of Dodge

Alright,

Hey you should send me a pic of that hole in the yard... it sounds like fun. Honestly this will sound like a total lie but Im pretty excited to do work there in the house... that doesnt mean the dishes mom but I think it will be fun to work in the rec room or what ever the project is when I get home. I do better then anyone down here when it comes to work but ya se, I know im not up to dads standards haha.

    Anyways, I am now in Ensanada..... where at Im not sure but Im here and it seems allright. My comp is a good guy, Im not sure if we are actually going to work or not seeing as he had planter warts 3 months ago, and go them burnt off, then went back in 2 weeks ago and did it again, well now his foot is infected and also he has a fongus going on... so thats messed up and his foot isnt healing because of that and well yeah its kinda a mess. Oh and the doc, doesnt know what he is doing. today we had an appointment and the doc just yelled at my comp the whole time... haha poor guy. But it went well.

    Im kinda sad I left Tij. I was enjoying my sector and we have alot of bap. that I will be missing. But at the same time its for the best, this week things went haywire there. Like 2 weeks ago a 16 year old girl... cool and cute, but not that cute, and..... well 16 so shes got no chance haha, was talking and said she was going to give me her triple when I left there, well I didnt think much of it and said sure. Then last week she asked me what I was going to give her, and she asked for a tie..... alright I said. Up to here, everything is alright. Just that her mom wants a returned missionary as a son in law. So one day last week, we were eating with a friend of the mom and she asked if i wanted to know my future.... intriged, I said si. Anways, she started talking about how Im in love with a dove, and that this dove wanted me, but that Im an angry person and I was scaring the dove away, then she said I was going to go home from my mission and that I was going to come back here and I was going to find a supprise waiting for me, that I would have to wait 3 more years to marry my dove.... anyways... wow. I just sat and listed and my comp was laughing his head off. but it all went... alright, but after that we went to the work of the mom and she started right in.... "why are you going to take my daughters triple" "um cuz she asked me to take it" "hmmm what are you planing with my daughter, what do you want with my daughter.... and aton of these questions that i couldnt answer... I didnt want to offend her or her daughter... so then she says Oh its allright, I know you cant tell me how you feel for my daughter till you get home, but Ill keep her waiting for you...... haha no way, anyways, super akward, the conversation went on for a bit and then haha I got up and left haha... saying good bye.. no worries it wasnt rude. But It def. was the right time to get out of dodge, cuz i didnt want to be there any more.

Anyways I love you all tons and hope the best for you all.

Peace, Love, and have a good week.

sorry the letter sucks:) as always.

Crazzy Weeek

 Wow this week was crazy. We had a bap, on saturday that was super cool. She has been an investigator for a super long time and she finally got bap. so that made me super happy. Even if she did get dunked 6 times the bap. turned out well. Her uncle did the baptism and well he couldnt quite get her under the water. her head always stayed out. I felt bad, everyone was laughing and giving her and him tips but yeah.... its all good now and well she got baptized.

 This week was alittle lame cuz our war mission leader kept getting at us for different things... all of which were not true. But still, He said we had to bap. in long sleeves if not it wasnt going to count and that we didnt have permission to give people blessings if the bishop wasnt there with us. And well yeah, you catch the drift. Anyways when we tried to explain to him the doctine he said, Elders dont fight about it just accept it..... Anyways I may or maynot have tore him a new one and told him to read his manuals so that he wasnt ignorant and so that the leaders of the church couldnt fool him..... It went..... Well..... I think haha.

Then this morning we got more good news. Last night Elder Johnson of the 70 came to TJ to talk to the mission pres and the stake pres's of the area well he gave it to them good there, and told them that the church here isnt progressing and that he will be talking to SLC to have the halt the construction of the temple, Last year we had 1300 bap. here and a growth of 100 people in the attendence in the church. So basically he said we are well..... in trouble here..... So he changed the standard for bap. here. Before ever investigator needed 2 weeks in church to get bap. now they will need 5..... Wow. There went all our bap. the bap rate in the mission will go down.... drastically. But its all good. The retention will be better. And its the lords work and he was inspired in his decisiones so its alright.

Other then that, life is super good here. We had a zone conference this week, that was super cool, and the spirit was there super strong, the pres and his wife talked about obedience... we talked about working and training the members and the ward council... It went well. Sunday we taught the ward council, the elders qourem and rel. soc. We are going to share some messages with the youth this week, and train the ward council and the ward mission lider this week again.

Anyways super excited about life... love you all tons....