Ok first things off. About my feelings and all of that fun stuff. I´m a boy so I apologize if I don´t sound super emotional or anything but I´ll start putting a little more effort into it.
Mom, to answer your questions on Elder Hendricks. He´s right next to the junior high Timberline or in Burgess Park. Jenefer Hendricks (mom). Seven months, and no Elder Dunn is in Tenerefe and Elder Hendricks in Lanzarote (closest to Africa). He played his freshman and sophomore year and graduated in 2012.
Well you might get what you want with the emotional stuff this week because it was one of the hardest weeks I have had by far on the mission. To start things off. Changing companions is hard but when their style of teaching, living, and contacting are different than what you´re used to it makes everything a little difficult. I´ve been sick since about last Monday and I´m getting slightly worse and worse. We´ve lost Indari and her family. And President came to the ward yesterday, (as you saw) and told all of the members that we can´t eat dinner with them. So we´re dealing with all of that drama. All and all a pretty stressful week. Dealing with upset members, trying to find lessons and more investigators, trying to keep the investigators we have, and trying to befriend somebody who has a totally different personality than I do. Thank goodness today´s P-Day.
So after Elder Fausett left we have tried setting up lessons with Indari and her family. However the lesson we set up she canceled and she hasn´t answered her cell phone since then. That was a really big let down because their whole family has great potential and I´m pretty sure the reason we can´t meet with them is because she´d rather meet with Elder Fausett, who´s gone. However we´re not giving up.
Ward Drama: So yesterday President announced that during the hours that members want to feed us we need to be (as missionaries) teaching as much as possible, and that it´s a little hard to teach when we´re inside people´s houses. However he did it with a lot more tact and reason than I just did. However there are maybe 5 members who have a hard time understanding that. I love these members but to be completely honest their view on everything is a little selfish. They just want the missionaries to spend hours at their house when what we´re here to do is Find, Teach, and Baptize. Not to spend hours at a member´s house talking about their feelings. So I´ve been talking to a ton of members with their complaints because I have the longest time and I´m the one that they trust the most here. I´ve learned that you can NOT please everyone.
With all of that we are still teaching. We have an investigator named Dora. She´s 34ish and has a 20 year old son and a 9 year old daughter. She´s awesome! She has a date to be baptized with her daughter on the 15th of March, and she will do anything to be ready for that baptism. Her son´s really cool but not very interested in the church. Then her daughter is very interested and loves church. She also loves English and goes to a Bilingual school. And something interesting is that we met one of her English teachers on the bus.
She´s American, from Wisconsin and is living with a Spanish family for the next few months. She recognized us because I was singing a long to one of the American songs that was on the radio on the bus. Then she asked where we were from. So we said, Utah and yes we´re Mormons. She was really nice and decently interested in why we are here. When we met her on the bus though, we had just left the Lau´s and Alejandro had made us brownies. I was holding them in a tin foil cover on my lap and I decided there were too many for me so I said word for word.
"Hey would you like a little taste of America? I have some brownies if you´d like."
Let´s just say that we got her reference. She laughed and told us that she´s excited to tell her parents that she accepted brownies on a bus, from some guy she just met in Spain. Anyways hopefully we can spark a little interest in her and this will be good practice for me to teach in English.
Ok thank you for everything. I got your package yesterday from the Jackson's and I love it but... I do NOT need more socks! I have around 30 pairs of socks and at least 9 of them I haven´t even opened! I love the concern you have for my feet but I could wear a new pair of socks every day of the month and still have plenty! However everything else was fantastic and is very much appreciated.
You guys are all great and thank you for the love, support, socks, and letters! The book is blue ad the church is true, see ya in a little less than two!
Love,
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