Ok, hey everyone whats up I'm in Mexico! So I'll give you the run down summed up. Day 1: I Flew from SLC to Dallas almost missed our other flight, flew to Monterrey on a plane full of Mexi's, it smell really interesting! Anyway that night in Monterrey we ate at Pres. Toris's house, then they shipped 19 of us to the mission house where there were already other missionaries, so that night there were 30 missionaries stuck in this really junky small HOT house, we all slept on top of our blankets and ur still to hot! Anyway ...-
DAY2: We went to mission head quarters and got lectured!!! all day by the AP's. Then that night they sent us on splits or added us to companionships in the area, so we met them, grabbed some clothes and off I went walking with my new temporary comps, there're taxis everywhere and in Monterrey they're alright priced, so we made it to their apt. first off, they didn't have a place for me to sleep....then this place is nasty. Dead cockroaches everywhere and not glass on the door or widows, just bars. We went contacting and then to their new Walmart, then back to the apt. were i slept on the ground.
DAY3: Got up studdiedish, cranked out 100 pull-ups on some water pipe, oh still no Mexican food insight! People just keep giving me nasty American crap! we went our contacting all morning, some old guy let us in we sang "Families can be together forever", it was cool! I bore my testimony for the first time in Mexico. At 1 I had to go to the immigration building to finish visa stuff with all the other new elders, One of them had an accident in his pants on the way over... I felt bad (good thing it wasn't me). Johnathan Nufer talked to some chick and was like I need to practice my Spanish and started teaching the 1st lesson, but then she got interested and so John and 2 other elders taught her, it was way tight she was way interested! then that afternoon we got all our stuff went to the bus station to ship off to Mancolva 4 hours away, we got our stuff on the bus then the AP's left but didn't give us our stinking tickets! we got our stuff off and couldn't call them....crap! So none of the numbers we had were working and all these Elders were freaking out while I was laughing, I was like lets just pray we're stinking missionaries! guess what happened some dude just lets us use his cell phone! so we got the AP's to come back4 hours later so we contacted in the station gave out a BOM and pamphlets, was tight, so that night we went back to the small house and still didn't have and Mexican food..GRRRR. we slept in different beds and it was really hot again at night like 95 degrees, next morning ...
Day4: 4:45 am got up showed then off to the bus station 'cause the bus left at 6am we got on, all is well 12 hours later I'm alone on a bus in freaking Mexico and the Military stops the bus and they all had M16's and searched our luggage! They found a bag of chalk in my suitcase and thought it was drugs and I tried to tell them it wasn't and we started yelling till they pointed their guns at me then I stopped.....just kidding had ya going. no they found nothing I finally made it to Acuña where I'm now. It's on the border of Texas. I thought it'd be a desert but its not, it's like pretty green, like Utah minus the Mtns plus we got palm trees.
Rest of the week: My comp picked me up, his name is Elder Dewsup he's way chill! He's from Sacramento(thankfully American) all you ladies would murder to marry this kid, he's a ladies man for sure and he knows it he always says "duelen mi cara ser tan guapo" I think I spelled it right but yeah lets just say all our investigators and recent baptisms are all young girls like 17 or 18ish or young mothers....:D pretty funny, my 2nd night here a huge storm came threw, and I mean really big! the Tornado Alarm went off in the city but no tornado ever came, it would have been sweet! just tons of hail rain and lightning!
There are 4 missionaries in Acuña! two wards, the members are super nice and feed us sometimes, if we can find their house 'cause our area is half a city! its huge! we ride bikes all day from one end of the city to the other a number of times a day from little dirt bike trails to in and out of traffic in the city racing buses and stuff, OH! in Monterrey don't mess with the traffic or buses they will hit you and just keep on driving! Anyway Acuña is smaller. All the houses are these little tiny cement houses the size of a garage maybe they are clean and very simple and colorful, I love it I would totally live in one, these people are lucky to have simple lives! our house is not in our area and is definitely nicer then most of the houses around. It's pretty big we have a "yard" a small palm tree our house is organge and pink and has white and black bars, it really brings out the gray spots and holes in the walls. its nice though, very spacious. My comp and I got the idea that sleeping on the roof would be fun so we have stairs that lead up to our flat cement roof it has a small little tower up there were we yell repentance, jk, and a wannabe bbq/bar and then its big and flat so the last few nights we've been sleeping up there its very chill atmosphere here theres taco stands and convenient stores like every block in people's houses every night we walk down to the taco house thingy and get drinks or down the street to the gas station, it's warm and perfect here! not deserty at all, I haven't seen a cactus in this city yet. yesterday we set up my slack-line in the back yard and slack-lined all evening it was super chill, we ate cheezitz and sat around in our hammac, I climbed on the edge of the roof as a horizontal foor problem that's like 30 feet long. then off to bed on top of our house watching stars ans bats...ha ha and loud Mexican music playing all day around us, yeah it's like a vacation, but we're also working a lot all day! Teaching a lot of lessons and contacting neighborhoods.
Its so funny when I contact, I tell them this tiny little thing about missionaries and Jesus and prophets and how God can bless their family, it's a really crappy pitch, then the people look at me like I just kicked them in the shin and like, are you serious is written all over their faces, but then I say, you wanna listen to our message and so far all of them have been like...uh ok. so we' get in.
anyway life is good the work is moving and I'm getting my first baptism on Wednesday! love you all miss you.
muwa
/bruce
