Hey
Mom!
That's awesome about
the kids and school! Sounds like seminary is great! I loved Sports Psych
from Lundgreen. One of my favorite classes I ever took but I know it’s
different there in Grantsville.
That's really good
about the kids in elementary school! Just tell Matthew that I had to go
through the same thing to try to learn Spanish and that now I am good at it so
just wait and he will get it! I want to learn French when I get back
since it seems like everyone in the family will know it. I don't want to
be too left out.
That's awesome about
the small little blessings you're getting. That's really good that things
are getting better. I hope things improve more and more! Nice to
know that the Lord is looking out for you!
I love you guys!
Things here and there remind me of the Cummings (like I got a Worther's
candy thing or whatever it's called) and I'm sure the other grandparents I have
are with me too.
So it's freakin hot
every day. No clouds and it gets up to 100 degrees every so often.
Fun stuff! I thought it would rain a lot but apparently it only
rains once or twice a year... I'll look forward to Utah weather where it
rains for a couple weeks randomly. I get along with pretty much all the
missionaries! Everyone's pretty nice and yeah! I don't have any
problems with them anyway. We hang out with Elder Packer and Roberts a
lot because they live a block away from us and they have a car so whenever we
go do stuff we go with them. My bike is kind of funny. Every time I
hit a big bump the chain falls off. I've gotten really good at putting
the chain on though! The language is coming. I can understand a lot
of topical conversations. So it's kind of off and on when I can
understand when they talk. If they talk about something I can understand
then I get it all basically and I'm getting better at understanding fast
talking too because some of these people talk REALLY fast. I'm getting
there though! It’s hard work every day trying to learn more. The
branch is pretty cool! I like it a lot. My companion and I are
really good friends so that's really nice. :) I fasted in the MTC for a good
trainer and I got one so that's really nice to have. Yeah everyone gets
different challenges and I know that I haven't even seen close to what I'm
going to face. Either that or the mission is a lot easier than I thought
it would be. By far easier than the 1000 mile summer. That was two
years ago that I did that... Such a weird experience to think back on.
So this week we had a
lot more success. We met a lot of new people and have some fun stories so
I'll get them down now to you guys. :)
On Tuesday we met this
guy while we were knocking and it was a miracle in finding him in itself
because we never go to that area where we went and he was pretty far down the
street by the time we got to him. He invited us in and said it was good
we came because his wife was going into open heart surgery sometime that week.
So we talked to him for a while (his name is Gary) and we gave him a
blessing. He has a cockatoo or something like that named Casper and he's
super cool! He's the evil bird from Rio. He can like talk and do
all this crazy stuff and yeah, but we came back yesterday to check on them and
the surgery went good. She should be back soon so that's cool and we
talked to him some more. This guy is probably one of my favorite people
ever. He's so nice and friendly and cool! Just a big teddy bear
basically. We were talking yesterday and he brought up that he was in the
Navy. So we asked him what he did. He said he was Special oops.
A sniper for Vietnam. Crazy moment right there. It sounded
like it really screwed up his life though because he talks about all the therapy
he does and has flashbacks and talks about some of the stuff he did and it
sounded insane what he had to do and go through. Must have been awful.
He talked about some reactions he has now if people scare him and it's kind
of scary that it still comes back. But we talked to him for a while and
that was super cool but we were going into the kitchen and I put my finger in
the cage to say hi to Casper and once I touched it, it grabbed my finger with
its talons and tried to eat it! I yanked my finger out and hurried into
the kitchen. So Gary was in the fridge grabbing ice and looking for
something while my finger is dripping on the ground. I went to the sink
and hurried and washed it off and put a bandaid on while Elder Petersen cleaned
up the floor and Gary looked back in time to see me put the bandaid on and
asked what happened and I said I just snagged my finger on something. It
hurts SO BAD. It's actually not that bad but I'll for sure have scars
forever. The beak bite went deep and it tore some good amount of skin
from its talons so I'm pretty sure that now it has tasted me it's going to hunt
me down one night and eat me.
I ate this nastiest
thing I have ever tasted in my life today. It was Watermelon with lemon
juice and smothered in chili pepper. That's basically Mexican candy and
it was the worst thing ever having to eat a bowl full of it. I literally
gagged on the 3rd to last piece and had to take it all with water.
I am getting really
good with chili’s though. I can take pretty much anything and handle it better
than the other Elders I am eating with. We ate a chili de arbol the other
day and the people expected me to freak out or something because I'm new but I
didn't even go red apparently. Fun stuff!
So Friday I think I
went to this family who called us and wanted blessings. They wanted us to bless
the car. So I gave a dedicatory prayer for the house and made sure to
cover the car too but this family of 3 older Filipinos wanted blessings of
healing too so I and Elder Roberts (we were on exchanges because we overbooked
ourselves) gave them all blessings of healing. It was a really cool
experience and I'm glad I was able to do it. Then they fed us and we
talked for a long time. They really liked it when said that Dad was born
at Clark AFB. Apparently the guy there (there was an older guy, older
girl and super older grandma lady) worked for Bin Ladin, Osama Bin Ladin's dad
over in Saudi Arabia. That was crazy to hear about. Thought he was
a terrorist when he brought it up.
Well that's about it
this week! I'll have more stuff to say next week. :) Hopefully some
new investigators! Have a nice week everyone! Love ya!
Elder Passey
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