baptism by fire hahaha

hey, to begin i love you all so so so much!!

 

now for the business, best way to get packages here is to send them flat rate usps. stuff it full full full in the cheaper boxes ya know. takes abou tten days, tape jesus pass along cards on it and pictures or stickers of jesus over the places where you could open the box, they won{t tear Jesus face. so if you send a package itll take like ten days or two weeks or so. ill only be here for 3 or 4 more so if you send somethign here send it soon. and as always, you cant put elder or ccm or anything that would give away its for a mormon.

 

next item of buesinss. i will email home next tuesday not wednesday. new elders come in wednesday so we help them all day so our pday is tuesday next week. we get to go to the mercado and to the mall and to this underground museum and stuff. its gonna be wild i cant wait to tell you all about it! i havent got the letters for this week yet but tell lex to dear elder me already haha :) i love her so much and i hope school goes well for you sweetie, i cant wait to hear about your first week!!

 

so for this week, nothing real exciting up until ssaturday night and sudnay, just more class and stuff. all the days mesh together and this week flew by. i was bedridden with some sort of wild flu sunday and monday haha. crazy, knocked clean out, but hna. steimle takes good care of us elders and her and pres. steimle ahve a ton of medicne so they drugged me well and i feel great now. i want to talk most about what we did yesterday. they let us out to go contacting, we split off with out companero latinos and just layed out the gospel on this area haha. it was so fun. i dont know a ton of spanish so i told e rodriguez that i would do the stopping and introducing and hellos and stuff, he could get them with the thick stuff and we{d set up appiont ments and get the address referalls at the end of the contact together.

 

we started off around nine thirty am and got on this bus that took us to who knows where in the city, they let us off, we walked about a half mile, then they said have at it and be back in an hour and fifteen minutes haha. we got a referral from the first lady we talked to. and man was this place sketchy, or so it would have been in idaho, its kinda like its the norm here, a little bit of a culture shock to me. the people here dont have much and a lot of them were actually decently interested in what we had to say. or they were just nice to the white kid with broken spanish haha.

 

we ended up getting five referrals and contacted a million people. it was awesome which is more than most other elders groups got. it was super fun and exciting. we were going up this street knocking doors and this lady yells, what do you want, elder rodriguez says, we have a gift for you haha, she opens this little hatch in the door, she{s naked! she says  i was showering sorry, what do you have for me? we bolted!!!!!! haha so freaking wild!

 

for the most part it was an incredibly humbling experience and i cant wait to go out and do it again in a couple of weeks with elder brown, that will be an interesting thing, then we are really on our own.

 

thank you so much for all the support. i love hearing about what is going on at home, i am glad to hear everyone is doing well, tell everyone hello for me and that i am doing well.

 

i{ll write a longer email next week, they{re really pressing us on time today. all is well, i{m loving it! and i cant wait ot actually ge tout and do something again!! more exciting news next week. I love you all, God bless!!

 

Love,

 

Brock