i saw a dog run into a parked car. LOLZ!
first off, i have to make something clear from starters. I really am not very
sad or homesick like it might seem like I am. the thing is, I really have
decided i HATE p day, mostly because i dont like being around other missionaries
very much. mostly because they just bug me a lot. but im not going to go into
that can of worms. theyre good... no... theyre other people. but basically, i
just get grumpy on p day, but during the week im usually happy as a worm. but
mostly, i think my emails usually come across as sad and grumpy and incredibly
irate because i just get that way when im around a large group of missionaries.
i will not go on.
that being said, i basically got the best mailbox of letters just now. thank
you! i really seriously cant explain how good it is to hear from the family
mamily.
so i have a baptism on sunday (FINALLY!!!!!! AHHHHH!) but its this kid whose
family are members but his records dont show that he got baptized... so they say
he has to be baptized AGAIN! just like in hechos 19 with apolos. or whatever. i
dont even know. anyway, thats exciting. its kind of rough going a long time
without baptizing anybody, for a number of reasons. but ill leave those reasons
for my journal.
this week was pretty weird. it was la semana santa, which i assume is the
catholic and latin version of our spring break. basically, nobody worked, and
everybody painted big pictures of the virgin mary on the streets. it rained
really hard for the first time on tuesday, and im really excited for the rainy
season. i love rain, even when i get really wet and step in big muddy puddles.
but soon, within a month, its going to be raining every day, and A LOT. i cant
wait! but it does get a lot more humid.
this morning we woke up at 4 30 or so to come up here to chalatenango, an area
like 2 hours north in our zone. i had to stand on the crowded bus for the first
half hour, but i kind of liked it. i was dead tired and i was using public
transportation that smelled sort of like a southwest airlines plane when its
waiting to depart and the engine isnt on but everyone still has on the little
air conditioner nozzle thing up top, and the air is stale and pretty warm.
anyway, it just made me feel good.
because it was la semana santa, the mail service here stopped. yeah. LAME.
basically i wouldnt even really care that much, except that the office didnt get
my money form thing, so they didnt deposit ANY money in my account, and now ive
got 5 dollars to my name till friday, and i have to pay for this hour of
internet and the bus ride home AND buy groceries AND BUY A GUN AND A BULLET
TO... not really. but yeah, im broke. im also losing weight. i weigh 150 lbs,
according to the scale in my lame district leaders house, which is probably how
much i weighed in like 7th or 8th grade. its been a long time coming.
the other day for some reason i really wanted somebody to mail me the periodic
table so i could memorize it as i ate lunch, so if anybody has an extra periodic
table of elements and wants to send it, hey, cool, thanks. if not, ill just
memorize scriptures.
anyway, things are well. i am happy. i turn 9 months in a week. time is flying,
i think.
i didnt shave this morning.
love,
andrew.
sad or homesick like it might seem like I am. the thing is, I really have
decided i HATE p day, mostly because i dont like being around other missionaries
very much. mostly because they just bug me a lot. but im not going to go into
that can of worms. theyre good... no... theyre other people. but basically, i
just get grumpy on p day, but during the week im usually happy as a worm. but
mostly, i think my emails usually come across as sad and grumpy and incredibly
irate because i just get that way when im around a large group of missionaries.
i will not go on.
that being said, i basically got the best mailbox of letters just now. thank
you! i really seriously cant explain how good it is to hear from the family
mamily.
so i have a baptism on sunday (FINALLY!!!!!! AHHHHH!) but its this kid whose
family are members but his records dont show that he got baptized... so they say
he has to be baptized AGAIN! just like in hechos 19 with apolos. or whatever. i
dont even know. anyway, thats exciting. its kind of rough going a long time
without baptizing anybody, for a number of reasons. but ill leave those reasons
for my journal.
this week was pretty weird. it was la semana santa, which i assume is the
catholic and latin version of our spring break. basically, nobody worked, and
everybody painted big pictures of the virgin mary on the streets. it rained
really hard for the first time on tuesday, and im really excited for the rainy
season. i love rain, even when i get really wet and step in big muddy puddles.
but soon, within a month, its going to be raining every day, and A LOT. i cant
wait! but it does get a lot more humid.
this morning we woke up at 4 30 or so to come up here to chalatenango, an area
like 2 hours north in our zone. i had to stand on the crowded bus for the first
half hour, but i kind of liked it. i was dead tired and i was using public
transportation that smelled sort of like a southwest airlines plane when its
waiting to depart and the engine isnt on but everyone still has on the little
air conditioner nozzle thing up top, and the air is stale and pretty warm.
anyway, it just made me feel good.
because it was la semana santa, the mail service here stopped. yeah. LAME.
basically i wouldnt even really care that much, except that the office didnt get
my money form thing, so they didnt deposit ANY money in my account, and now ive
got 5 dollars to my name till friday, and i have to pay for this hour of
internet and the bus ride home AND buy groceries AND BUY A GUN AND A BULLET
TO... not really. but yeah, im broke. im also losing weight. i weigh 150 lbs,
according to the scale in my lame district leaders house, which is probably how
much i weighed in like 7th or 8th grade. its been a long time coming.
the other day for some reason i really wanted somebody to mail me the periodic
table so i could memorize it as i ate lunch, so if anybody has an extra periodic
table of elements and wants to send it, hey, cool, thanks. if not, ill just
memorize scriptures.
anyway, things are well. i am happy. i turn 9 months in a week. time is flying,
i think.
i didnt shave this morning.
love,
andrew.