FIRST DAY IN GOMEZ PALACIO
Holy cow mi amigos. This has been wild.
The Last week in the CCM
We had three general authorities teach us in one week. Elder
Renlund on tuesday, Tad R Callister on Wednesday, and Bishop Davies on Sunday.
My favorite speaker was Bishop Davies because he was kind of a loose cannon and
I really enjoyed his spirit. haha he was really excited to teach us.
That beautiful parrot
really quick. A parrot flew into our class room this week at
the ccm. I saw it happen. I am a witness. It was the cutest dang parrot. like
nobody can understand. It was really derpy and it kept waddling around and
flying into things and falling over. It waddled on my shoe and it waddled on
Elder Curran´s scriptures while he was studying. freaking cute. You better
believe we wrapped that beautiful parrot in a blanket and threw him out the
window.
I accidentally gave away my english hymnal
it was a present from my brother. Scott, I´m sorry about
this. We were at the airport with my generation all ready to get going to our
missions and the tension was tense. and I was so sleepy. it was a weird
experience because its like supposed to be sentimental and you say goodbye to
so many friends and there is love. But the latinos broke into our casa at 1.30
in the morning and woke us all up, we rush to get ready and jump on a bus where
they fill you with pomegranate juice and we don´t know whats happening because
it´s all in spanish hahaha
So. At the airport we were talking with some of the latinos
and one of the latinas asked me if I had a hymnal in english, and I did. So I
was like " oh yeah do you want to see it?" except that it too
advanced of a sentence for me to pull out on the fly. So I just said "do
you want?" and I thought she might know what I meant. and anyway to be
honest I just chickened out haha. After she took it and thanked me profusely I
thought for a bit, talked to some other people, and then by the time I realized
what had happened I didn´t have the heart to ask for it back.
hahaha oh well, she will use that to learn english and bless
her life.
Airport and learning Spanish
The Hermanas at the airport were really excited to talk with
me and teach me Spanish. I´m super grateful for any latino who will be patient
enough to listen to me struggle to speak their language. I am learning faster
in the field than I did in the CCM, at the same time I wish that I had tried
harder in the CCM, not that I was lazy, but I just didn´t understand what it
would be like to only speak spanish so much in the field.
First Day
I was really tired but at the same time like really
stimulated and so much was happening and I didn´t have time to process it.
There is one experience in particular that is kind of descriptive of my
feelings. When me and my Trainer (Elder Calderón I´ll get to him) first got to
our casa and he showed me around, I won´t lie I was like, "yo this is a
sketchy dank neighbor hood" It´s like in some back alley with dust
everywhere and broken down cars. I don´t think my attitude was really that bad,
I was optimistic to be working here, but that was what I thought my area was, a
dusty old alley. I´m in a part of Gomez Palacio, a town across the river from
torreón.
Much Later in the day, we are walking back from District
meeting, which was out of our area, and it was night time and it cooled down a
lot and the sky looks much bigger in torreón, it´s really clear and beautiful.
And we are walking and we get to this neighborhood, and it seriously looked to
me like something out of a van gogh painting, the way that the light would come
out of pattered windows and reflect onto painted clay homes was really
beautiful, and I could hear music coming from their homes. There are some kids
hanging out and playing, and I was like wow, this is a really beautiful part of
town. And we get to the end of the street and my trainer is like "do you
have the keys?" and i´m like "what?" haha it was our street. We
had arrived home.
From what I have seen torreón is a truly beautiful place.
this beautiful desert. that walk home on my very first night, what a beautiful
desert.
Elder Calderón
Elder Calderón is my trainer. He is from a very southern
part of mexico that starts with the "U" sound, as in utah. He wanted
to be an english teacher before his mission and i am so grateful for his
efforts, he never uses english except to explain spanish to me, but his english
is very good. He is on his last two transfers and we are opening a semi new are
together, He opened it two weeks ago. He is a powerful powerful missionary and
in the very first moment that I met him, before either of us knew he was my
trainer, the spirit testified to me of his goodness and that I would do alright
if I would just follow him and learn as much as I can from him.
Blessing
This is getting long and i´ve used most of my time, but so
much had happened in such a short amount of time that I was beginning to feel
seriously overwhelmed. There were many blessings that God sent to comfort me
and console me, but particularly I asked for a blessing from my trainer before
I went to bed. We both gave each other priesthood blessings, and his
blessing for me was powerful. I caught about a third of it but I felt
comforted. We went to be and I woke up feeling Great. All today I´ve been
carrying this peace with me that comes from the spirit. God has been doing his
work in my life more than ever since I came on this mission, and his work is to
make men happy. Here there is love that doesn´t leave.
Elder Grilliot
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