April 16, 2018

 Colima is good, that fish was in tuxpan, its a mero fish. they cook it sarandeado. things are going alright in colima, we found 4 people to teach this week. I miss the people in tuxpan, they are nice, really poor, but really nice. Thanks for the email and for the workouts.  This week we...walked a lot, looked for people, taught some people. today we climbed up a hill to a spot where people jump off with parachutes, that was cool,  Our area...its the driest area ive been in, farthest from the ocean, so i have been getting mad headaches, and we live on a main street so i havent been able to sleep very well, so that sucks. as far as motivation goes these have been the hardest weeks so far, im not bummed or anything, just worn out, and our area has nothing, i have no idea what these fools were doing last transfer, also, in tuxpan everyone was super nice, i contacted everyone, but here everyone is in a hurry and just straight ignore me when i contact them, so thats obnoxious, but other than that things are good. my companion is kinda dumb, we get along well but sometimes he just has dumb ideas and its hard to get him to understand why theyre dumb. but its whatever. everything is fine down here. we did some sweet service this week, we are teaching a family, and the dad is sick, i dont know with what, maybe cancer or something, he was in the hospital for a month but now hes home, but he doesnt look great, but the point is we cleaned their whole yard. i like using machetes a lot, i dont know why we dont use them in the states, but i always cut myself because i dont have too much practice. Also, this week i was praying and prayed that our lunch apointment would give us a reference and we could go find them and they would want to listen, and then it happened, so that was neat.

April 9, 2018

Things in Colima are good. It is a little city, like...carson ish maybe? im still a zone leader, there are 12 missionaries in the zone. Elder flores is from tlaxcala, we get along well, our teaching pool is non existant. Im kinda irritated because the elder that was here before me wanted to be assistant and was mad when elder velazquez got made assistant and not him, but he kinda has a big ego and wants everyone to think he is perfect, but he left and elder flores doesnt know anything, he would go have meetings with the bishop and leave elder flores outside because he was senior companion. which is super stupid and not allowed, and that he would takes naps every afternnoon for a few hours. the point is elder flores doesnt know anything about the plans with the ward or with the stake, and we have like 2 investigators. Elder Flores has 11 months on the mission and a lot of people in the zone dont think he should be zone leader which is really frustrating, but im gonna whip the zone into shape, it should be fun. I only got one package with socks and a tie. The best thing this week is that we found a kid that wants to reactivate and go on a mission, and he has been visiting with us, also, we have a family we are teaching where the parents are blind and so the dad goes with one of the daughters, who are both 9, and the dad goes with the other, there daughters are like there eyes, and they are so so so poor, they collect cardboard and sell it to live. i dont know who thinks its a good idea being blind marrying another blind person, especially in a place like mexico, but they are so happy and its great.  Any news on andrew and optometry school? There is a volcano here in colima that explodes and blows smoke all the time, so that is actually really sweet. 

March 26, 2018

 things are good here. elder velazquez is assistant now and i am without a companion which sucks. my cinnamon rolls were bomb but i need a frosting recipe. The craziest member of the ward is probably...who knows there is an hermano that is blind that is funny, in gospel principals the sister missionaries thought it would be a good idea to ask what is our favorite of Gods creations and he said "the woman" so that was funny. something im doing that i never thought i would do? im getting good at using a machete, we made a huge fire this week cleaning out a yard. my investigators probly say im cool, i dont know. this week was good, i got to get in the ocean and i saw a dead stingray so that was sweeet