October 21. 2013

October 21, 2013

Hey guys!

Welp the Alaskan boy is long gone.  Now I am stuck with a complete nerd, to say the least.  I don't know how to describe him to you.  I don't think I have ever heard more about video games, Dungeons and Dragons, and just weird things in my life.  The one thing I am grateful for is that we work hard, and you know you can just get past the weirdness for the hard work.  He is strange, but we work hard and that is good.  I am now surrounded by 3 nerds, and I am just the kid in the corner whose mind is being blown because of the things they talk about and how weird they are.  I enjoy lacrosse, NFL, and that stuff, and they enjoy the nerd weird stuff that I have tried so hard to stay away from.  But we are working hard, and that is important.  

This week was definitely hard.  We have been trying to get new investigators this whole week, and we had no luck till yesterday.  We have been walking a lot lately because we don't have that many miles left on our car for the month.  We even had to walk to Anthony this week to save us some miles and, oh my, it was a trek but we made it.  We tried to contact people on the way but it end up there was no one on the trail that we were talking to Anthony.  So we were bummed that we didn't see anyone.  But yesterday we found 4 new investigators, and we were really happy because our hard work paid off.  We talked to this new Margarita, and she has 2 kids that listened to our lesson as well.  We also found this old investigator whose name is Rodrigo Rodriguez.  He is a pretty cool dude.  He is younger, like in his 20’s.  The missionaries stopped talking to him, so we picked him back up, and he is super cool and fun to talk too.  Jesus is doing good as well.  He always beams with excitement when we stop by and always tells us to never forget him.  I was going to count that small little chat with him as a lesson because we talk to him, saw how he was doing, and closed with a prayer but, nope, my companion shot back at me and told me why we couldn't count that as a lesson and gave me a super detailed long description why.  I just tuned him out and just let him win the argument.  I have been kind of doing that a lot lately.  I sometimes tune him out because he starts talking about something I don't really want to hear, but I just look like I am listening to show him I care, but I think of other things.  It is also hard too sometimes because he always listens to music.  When there is a dull moment in the day he blasts music.  The first thing he does when we wake up is blast music, and the thing he does when we get home is blast music.  I sometime just want quiet time to think, and I don't get that anymore.  Pretty much my quiet time is in the shower.   I am now staying there for a while because I don't want to go out and listen to more music.  It is what it is.  Cecilia is doing good as well.  We didn't see her this week so it was weird ,and she didn't come to church so that bummed me out.  My companion didn't count her as progressing, but she is.  I didn't want to argue with him so I just let him have his way.  He always goes into detail when he argues something.  He is also the district leader, and it is the first time in his mission when he has been the senior companion.  It is kind of getting to his head, and he thinks he has all this power.  Every time he answers the phone, and it is missionaries on the line, he says , "This is district leader Elder Lamunyon.”  It is super annoying, and he thinks he is baking in power.  But that was pretty much my week for you.  We didn't teach much because we were finding. 

I don' think I need much - maybe some shampoo if that is ok?  I am happy the Packers won this week and Tyler and Scott pulled off the "W".  That is good the Titans are kicking butt.  The school needs that, and it is probably way fun.  I kind of regretted not playing football.  I wonder sometime what would have happened if I played and I should have given it a second chance.  But I am happy I did my own thing and played lacrosse.  I miss not being as active.  I am just hoping I don't gain weight on my mission because they feed us so much at dinner, and it is not healthy.  But I am doing good, and I miss you guys tons and think about you always.  You guys will have to see this place sometime and see how ghetto the ABQ is.  It is more dangerous than El Paso but I can't complain because it is an awesome city.  I hope you guys have an awesome week, and I miss you guys tons.  Just know how much I love you and you’re in my prayers!

Con Mucho Amor,

-Elder Smith