I finally received the care package and I'm definitely
going to eat it tonight. . . all of it! I am constantly hungry all the time. And yes I
have lost weight. None of my pants
really fit me and I need to make more holes in my belt because they're too big
ha ha. The people that feed us feed us well but the thing is everything here is
pretty lean and lots of tortillas and vegetables so I just shed it off from
simply walking really fast even though a lot of people here are overweight
which I don't get.
They don't really celebrate Christmas down here though so I don't
know about that. (He is referring to sending money for food baskets)
Some of our investigators are coming along and we should
have 3 baptisms next week. It is difficult
out here because of the culture. People
are very relaxed about things. They care
about God as well. For some of our investigators
its hard because they want to be baptized but they have to be married and the
husbands don't want to be married too. It's
all a challenge.
It still rains a lot I don't know why? My shoes are fine I switch them up daily so they
all last longer.
And actually my companion is not that small. He's like 5' 10" but everyone else is short ha ha. We go around a lot in these taxi things that
are more like three-wheelers with aired backs.
I'll have to take pics. I forgot my camera to download the pictures I
have so I will be sure to do that next week. We also rode around on a van bus, but there was no room inside so my
companion and I and three little Guatemalans hung onto these bars on the
outside of the bus. It was really fun
but scary too because we almost would hit trees and other things and the roads
here are terrible.
It definitely was a shock when I first arrived with
everything, but I'm starting to get my footing. I definitely agree with the opening your mouth and simply speaking. My language has improved and I know it will continue
to improve as long as I am diligent even when I feel like it isn't. I teach
full lessons with my companion now and it can be intimidating but after awhile
you learn what to say and it becomes much easier.
My companion likes to push me though. He always tries to make me walk faster and
say more when we're in lessons and it's my turn and I ask him questions or how
to say something he just looks away and doesn't say anything and makes me
figure it out. At first I did not like that at all and it would frustrate me,
but I found that I would be able to figure it out on my own and I didn't need
his permission or approval for certain things.
He helps if I said something wrong grammatically but he really leaves me
to it.
But everything else is good we teach and find people every day.
We
talked to over 300 people in 1 day this week! It's crazy that's the most my companion said
he has ever done. Tell me how everyone is and what's going on out there?
I had my first interview with my [Mission] President and he
started asking me questions about why I got the companion I did or why I was
sent to where I am. And I answered them all and realized how inspired it really
is. And he told me part of the reason I got such a good companion is probably
because I will have those bad ones that I will have to pick up and help and
that I will need to be a good example to others in the future because I am
learning how it's supposed to be the whole time. And how I need to be the
whole time on my mission.
But tell me what's going on at home I think about you guys sometimes
but I also try not to because I am truly trying not to remember who I am and
more on what I am trying to be and do and why I am here.
Love,
Elder
Toma
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