[Note to reader: We took a weekend trip where we attended
church in a ward in Encinitas, CA. While
we were there we saw a picture of a missionary (Elder D.) from that ward in the
same mission as Davis. We talked to some
ward members about Elder D and learned that he had just been assigned to the mission
offices. I sent Davis a photo of the
photo of Elder D by email.]
Hahahahah I know Elder D!
He's secretary of materials.
Wow, Nathaniel is fast,
I´m kind of jealous hahaha. That´s almost as good as my best sophomore time.
I'm trying to work out as much as I can here though, with the 30 minutes we
have in the morning. I have found that it gives me much more energy for the
day. I do miss running though.
Oh, you need to tell the
bank that I'm in Mexico so they don't cancel the card if I use it. I have
another missionary debit card, but that's for food and stuff. I could use mine
for souveniours and such. I want to get some soccer jerseys for Nathaniel and
stuff but I need to find ones without Carta Blanca logo on the back, a beer
company.
Let me tell you a little
bit about my area. San Nicolas is a pretty well off city (My zone is san
nicolas, area is nicolas bravo) It´s not super wealthy or anything, but they
have things. There are a couple really poor parts in my area though. Most
of the houses are smaller than our living room plus kitchen plus front room are
with the chandelier. There are a lot of stray dogs. something funny to do
is if there’s a small stray dog barking at you, you pretend to pick up a rock
and it runs away.
Here's a joke: ¿Porque
las camisas de los Lamanites tienen arrugas?... porque no tienen planchas!
Ok I´ll explain: Why do
the shirts of the lamanites have wrinkles?...because they don´t have
Plates/Irons (planchas means both)
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| Davis and 12 year old O |
We've been teaching an
18 yr old named A, as well as his cousin O. A was staying with his aunt working
here in Monterrey, but his job was so terrible that he quit, and now he is
going back home to puebla MX. He has a desire to get baptized though, and it
turns out that his mom is a member! Yay! hopefully he answers the prayers of
some other missionaries. We´re still teaching O, who is 12. He's super cool and
has a really good knowledge of the bible. He´s reading his book of mormon
(hopefully every day like we asked him to do hahah) but now that his older
cousin is gone, he doesn´t have as much support to go to church. We´re finding
a way to get him to come. It´s kind of hard when the rest of his family isn´t
in line with the gospel, since his mom is in a "union libre" (not
married) but shes also married to someone that she isn´t living with, so she
basically is in a big pickly and can´t get baptized. It must be pretty hard for
O, but he´s a great kid and he always has a good attitude. Here´s a picture of
him, and then there´s a picture of me and my comp. with A, O, and a member (taller guy).
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| Davis, Elder S, A, Taller Guy, O, mysterious little girl. |
I´ll tell you about more
investigators next week.
Also, Bottlecaps! Since
the water isn´t great here, a lot of people drink a lot of soda. I have 150
bottle caps just from two weeks being here; I´ll probably send them some time
so keep my bottle cap collection safe because im still going to make that
mural! I don´t like caffienated ones, so I don´t drink them, but I have a lot
of coca cola bottle caps because It´s super popular here. Also, I don´t think
I´ve actually had more than one taste of coke or pepsi before now, but when we
go over to a members house and they just have a giant bottle of pepsi and
that´s all there is to drink, well, ya gotta. hahaha it always just has a weird
taste :P
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| Davis is going to mail bottlecaps home from Mexico? |
Also, I´m sending
pictures to you because the computers at this Ciber are really safe and stuff,
but I probably won't in following areas because my trainer said he has gotten viruses
on his SD cards and couldn´t take anymore pictures with them.
Also, no interesting
birds! psh
Alright, I´ll be back
next week to tell you about all of the amazing things about being on a mission!
Love you all!
Davis
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