July 15, 2013
Hey family,
Right now I’m actually in Bello
Horizonte again. We and the ZLs, and some other companionships got permission
to come here to eat at McDonalds, and while we were here, I was all like ¨hey,
there is a sweet computer lab here in Bello with AC and todo. We should go
there.” So we all came here to enjoy the AC and take it easy. The computers
here are a lot nicer, and it’s pretty awesome.
So all is going pretty well. Not too
much has happened, and to tell you the truth, I never got any phone call about
the rabies stuff. I think that maybe the mission nurse forgot, or who knows.
Maybe you can call the SLC doctor again and have him remind the mission nurse.
Who knows... But yeah, I never got a single phone call about that. I am still
feeling perfect, but it’s better safe than sorry. Yeah, weird right?
So I’m glad that you got to go to the
temple so many times. I would love to go, but yeah sadly there isn’t one here
in this country. The problem is that there are very few who have been to the
temple. In this country, if you´ve gone to the temple, that means that you´re
the bishop. The people just don’t understand that it is VERY important to go
the temple. But anyways, maybe some day there will be a temple here. That’s the
dream of all of the missionaries.
So all is going really well, and the new
president is getting things in order. We all had interviews with him on
Tuesday, and it was awesome. He is a really nice guy, and is just cool to be
around. I sent him the email address of Brother R today. Every week we have to
send him emails. The cool thing is that President Collado responds to the
emails each week, so that’s really good.
We had the baptism on Saturday of a guy
named H, and it was fun. My first day here was the first time that we had ever
taught him, and in the same day we put the baptism date with him. He is just a
single guy that got separated from his wife a couple years ago. We had a quick
little baptism service, and I put on my pants and then we got into the water.
Good stuff. I really enjoy being in this mission. Sometimes I think about how
some missionaries can pass their whole mission without baptizing, and we have
baptisms very often. It’s just cool. At the baptism service of H, a family that
we will baptize on the 20th came. Their names are H and K. They´re a cool
couple that has been to church 3 weeks, and I feel like they´ll definitely get
baptized on the 20th. H works for BIC (you know... The pen company), and he has
a car, which is really rare. So it’s cool, and they can come to church very
easily.
So this Sunday we had a lot of success
in church, but it was a lot different than what I was thinking. We had like 6
families that committed to go to church. So on Sunday we did divisions with the
members, but all of the families fell. We arrived at church, and we only had
like 3 investigators with us... Pretty lousy. But during the 2nd hour, during
gospel principals, all of the sudden a family arrived that we had taught once.
It was really cool, especially that they arrived on their own. Then like 5
minutes later, one of the APs of the mission (the attend the 10:00 ward) came
into our class and was like ¨Stark, come with me.” He said that there was a
massive family in the church, and that they were asking for the missionaries of
Villa Venezuela. To my surprise, we had another family in the 10:00 ward. There
were 6 people in the family. It was awesome, and the APs were all like ¨dang...
these missionaries in Villa Venezuela are throwing fire.” So yeah, on Sunday we
had 10 investigators in church, and 2 families. It was really successful.
So I’m getting super excited to see
where Bailey goes on his mission. That is really really awesome that his papers
will be going in soon, and hopefully he can enter the MTC without having to
wait for too long. I really have no predictions yet on where he´ll go. But what
is the general consensus? Foreign or stateside? Anyways, I’m excited to hear
what goes on. Maybe he´ll come to Nicaragua south mission.
So it sounds like all is going really
well. I don’t really have any good stories this week. Each day it will rain
super hard for about 45 minutes, and then it will clear up and be normal. The
rain just beats on the tin roofs, and it’s pretty impossible to hear anything
when it’s raining like that You need to be there to really see what its like.
Usually we´ll just hang out in someone’s house until it dies down. But yeah,
it’s crazy. Oh here is a funny story. So yesterday we went to eat dinner at our
bishop’s house, because they feed us on Sunday night. Elder E pays them to wash
his clothes, so every day he is bringing them more clothes. So anyways, we sat
down, and began chowing down on the hotdogs that they gave us. Then, I looked
up, and hanging from the ceiling was a ton of underwear. I tapped Elder E on the
shoulder and was like ¨Dude, look up. Are those your underwear????? ¨ Anyway, it was just so, so, so, so hilarious
to be eating dinner in the dining room of the bishop, and to all of the sudden
look up and find the underwear of Elder E hanging from the ceiling. We all just
began laughing so much, because it was so funny. Good times.
So I looked on LDS.org, but I couldn’t find anything about the grooming
changes. Anyways, I would love to wear khakis, but who knows. It’s cool though
that we can now drink Coke. Elder Schriever also told me that they could drink
the coke in their mission now. Everything just seems to be getting better. And
my comp and I are getting along pretty well.
So life is normal here. Sometimes I
think about the stuff that we could do when you come down here and visit. But
that still feels like it’s a long time always. Anyways, take it easy. This
week, I’ll arrive at 11 months in the mission. Its crazy that 50% has already
passed by. Well. Yeah. Have a good week.
Elder Stark
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