Heyyyyyyyy people, I miss all you and I want you all to know that
the mission is one of the coolest things I will ever do.
I´m not going to lie, at first it was easy to have a negative attitude at
times and pretty difficult to fight it. i noticed i was spending my time looking
at the bad things of my mission. The garbage covering the streets, the awful
smell that is everywhere i go, i miss my family and loved ones. And then I
started to count my blessings here. The people here are sooooo nice. they are so
fun and i love being with them. the food is way good, i thought i would get sick
of rice pretty fast but i love it! There is a ton of soups and pretty much
every kind of juice you can think of! we only really get fed every day at lunch and other that we are on our own.
But I´m going to throw in that I have the coolest mission president! Elder
Riggins is probably the best speaker I have ever listened to. We had this thing
last night where we all went to the stake center and listened to him talk with
all the missionaries in our zone then we all brought a bunch of people from our
wards like investigators and new converts. He is very funny and super
powerful!
As for the Spanish it is getting better for sure! I can pretty much
understand enough to the point that I know that everyone is talking about and
carry on some decent conversations. So that´s all good!
So this one time we were on our way over to this girls house that we found
a few days earlier and we saw a GIANT iguana! it wasn't running away when we got
close so my companion Elder Cook picked it up, then that thing FLIPPED OUT! I
got some pretty funny picks of it when it happened and put them on drop box.
Elder Cooks arms got pretty cut up from the claws though so that was too bad.
now people always ask him what happened when they see his arms!
But I'm loving the mission. sometimes its tough because everybody here
already has a religion. they are either católico, evangélico, testigos de
jehovah, o ...mormon. and these people are all active in there churches so when
we invite our investigators to our church they all say they cant because they go
to their church at the same time! everybody is so welcome to talk about Jesus
but our lessons usually end up with them talking to us the whole time just
preaching their beliefs and religion. the people here definitely like talking
more than listening. But all is well.
Tomorrow me and Elder Cook are getting a couple married then baptizing the
wife this Saturday and then we have another grandma that was supposed to get
baptized last week but she was never home so we couldn't give her the interview.
but this week we will make sure it happens. we have two other kids about our age
that have agreed to be baptized so that's good. but we need to teach their whole
family so they can have the support of the parents and maybe convert them too.:)But I´m looking forward to my mission and what crazy things are yet to come! Love and miss you all!!
Elder Rawson/spidey
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