The longest email i have ever written

This is for all you people that wanted more out of my emails and  i let you down.

This is for all you homies that saw my email from last week and said "is that it?"

This is for all you email loving rascals out there that eat big cereals.

This is...

THE LONGEST EMAIL I HAVE EVER WRITTEN

Table of contents

Chapter 1: General Well being

Chapter 2: Hna Iris Hurt my feelings

Chapter 3: Then we ran all the way home

Chapter 4: Jordy has some freaky dreams

Chapter 5: Elder Sandoval told me that there was a war

Chapter 6: Moises the Greatest niño of all

Chapter 6: The Happy Power of Humility

Chapter 1: General Well being

I think this email is ALREADY breaking records. but we will go on anyway. Well in this chapter i wanted to post the video that the kids took of me, but i can´t find it. But trust me it was a funny video. 

I am doing really well. I´m really happy that i left on the mission one year ago. When i got to the mission i thought that thei already knew stuff. i thought that i was wise. I thought i was experienced. And Man oh man have i learned so much here on the mission. I don´t know why, but i thought i understood the doctrine of christ before my mission. and i also thought i understood how to teach. i thought i was a good teacher. but man i have learned a ton. Also i´ve learned about working with people, how to happier, how to make freinds, i´ve learned how to speak spanish, and help people make changes in their lives and commit people to act, i´ve learned how to love god and my fellow man and recognize the spirit,i´ve learned how to take care of myself. I´ve learned about who i really am and how i am and what i want and don´t want.

This week I have been really happy. I really love this ward and i love my comp. I love our investigators and I love my savior.

Chapter 2: Hna Iris Hurt My feelings

Well yeah so this is kind of a negitave thing but i´ll try to put a positive spin on it. Hna Iris has had an aweful life. And it hasn´t made her stronger. Because of her choices, it has led her into the trap of sin and hardened her heart and made her resent God and all the people that have ever hurt her. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the best place to raise a family. All of the knowledge in the world could not make a better plan for the family. And the family that raised iris was doing a really bad job and she left her home in nicaragua when she was 14. And man she has never had anyone to teach her how to be a good mom. 

So about two weeks ago she canceled an appointment on us and she was kind of rude as she did it, like "it´s that i don´t have time right now," "oh what happened hna? why don´t you have time?" "i said i don´t have time!" and so we weren´t sure that she wanted our help, so we stopped going for a  bit and then she called us and apologized and asked us to come back. and so we were like "oh yeah maybe we can help her"

So this week was a really hard week for her, she lost her job and got sick and we went to visit her and we tried to cheer her up, but she was not having it. We brought her some beans to help her feed her kids while she´s out of work and she´s like "i´ve already got beans, dang it, put them over there by the other beans" She was really discouraged and wouldn´t listen to us and said we didn´t know anything and we couldn´t help her and she got mad at us. well actually more specifically she got mad at me. She took out her hurt on me and singled me out and tried to make me feel bad. I´d never had an investigator get mad at me before. It did hurt for a moment, and it´´s made me think about whether or not we should keep trying to help her, but i do understand how crushingly difficult her situation is. man. We want so badly to help her to be happy and get her life together but i feel honestly i feel discouraged about being able to help her. Well acutally she is a member, it´s her kid who is the investigator. man, we´llpray about how to handle things with her.

Chapter 3: Then we ran all the way home

this really has been a great week even though that story was super negative. 

well haey here´s something else. This week i think it was thursday we finished an appointment way out in the palma and our area is super huge man, and it was like 8:40 and the buses pretty much stop going at like 8:30, and we can take taxis but it´s way expensive, so we are walking and there apears out of nowhere a magic solima bus! the buses are called Camiones here, and we waved the guy down and we got on and he was like, "where are you kids going?" and we are like "man take us to he house""i can only get you a third of the way there, i´m going home yo" and we´re like "man we will take it" and we jump on that bus and starts driving and then we get off and we are still really far away from the house and it is like 9:00 and we have to get home by 9:30 in order to be obedient. And I´m like "hey elder parra do you think we can make it to the house in time walking?" and he´s like "maybe if we try really really hard" and so we start walking fast and i´m like  "no it needs to be faster" and so we start running, and we run all the way home at night with our back packs and everything, and man i am out of shape. i don´t know how far we ran, but we were not running that fast, and it took us almost exactly 30 minutes to get to the house, so i´d say we ran about three miles. oh man i have gained like 15or 20 pounds here in mexico, and it was not that easy but we did it. we felt really cool actually, i tooka shower and i slept great haha

this is what the solima looks like

Chapter 4: Jordy has some freaky dreams

so this kid jordy found us in the street, he is 17 years old i think, and he is a short funny looking guy, he´s actually super funny and i like being around him alot. and he just came up to us and he´s like, "hey i want you guys to come to my house i want to talk to you." and normally i think that would worry people or weird people out but when you are a missionary your like "yeah of course! where do you live!?"

and so we go to visit that kid and he tells us his story. that every night for like 5 years he has dreams about satan and things attack him in the night. it sounds awful. and his mom is there and she tells us that he thinks that it´s because he uses inhalants, like the drugs. and well we taught him how to pray and promised him blessings. we want to see how it goes with that before giving him a blessing. A really interesting rule in the mission is that we can´t bless a haunted house or someone dealing with spirits or satany things unless we bring a melchezidek preisthood holder with us or bring them to the chapel to give them the blessing. 

Chapter 5: Elder Sandoval told me there was a war

yeah so i heard some freaky stuff this week about syria and russia and i´m not sure what. but some one told our district leader that russia and syria and north korea had all made a pact and gone to war with the US and in this very moment they were launching missiles at the US and blowing up cities. and as soon as he heard that he calls me and tells me that the US is at war with russia and syria and north korea. It really freaked me out good. It made me really sad to consider that we might be going to war. but later that same day elder sandoval called us to clear things up. this is what i understand now, that syria did some kind of genocide thing with their own country and the U.S. and france didn´t like that so they sent some missiles over there, and russia got really mad at us and threatened to go to war if we didn´t stop it. I´ve also heard that they have started the wall. I feel really misinformed as a missionary, i really only know what is going on by word of mouth.

Chapter 6: Moises, the greatest niño of all

I love this kid, i´ll send some pictures of him. This week Moises got baptized and while it was a stressful experience getting everything ready, it was a really powerful day and really wonderful. Moises is one of the most tender kids, he just adores the missionaries and i feel like he is a good friend. He has taught me alot about Dragon Ball Z and how to cook. I feel like in this ward more that anywhere else i´m developing friendships that i want to last after my mission.

Chapter 7: Humilty, the happy py power or something like that

man this email is getting loooooongg!!

This week me and elder parra talked alot about the importance of humility. Humility is a beautiful thing. We are happy when we live our lives according to the will of God. Lehi said "without righteousness there can be no happiness" (2nephi 2:13). We can be happy when we accept his will into our lives. 

Another Scripture that I love is in moroni 7:37 "and none are acceptable before God but the meek and lowly in heart" heck that is a penatrating thought. No one is or ever was acceptable in the sight of God unless they were meek and humble like a child. Because the natural man is an enemy to God.

well what that means to me is that without the help of God i will continue falling and becoming less and less like God forever unless and sumbit myself to him.

man this is kind of a bad email even though it´s really long. next time i will reach an equilibrium and write the perfect missionary email. It will be a work of art. man i´m poopeddddd

oh hey we also had zone conference this week and it was super rad

they brought us burger king

fin.

hanging out on the interstate

going to the stadium

moises and his baptism

love yall