Dear
Family,
That’s
so awesome about trek. :) I’m glad it wasn’t as girly and sissy as we
thought it was going to be. :) It sounded like such a good experience.
I
moved my time to getting up to 5 in the morning every morning where I do
pushups and abs and planks and stuff for like half an hour and then study
scriptures for another half an hour and then get ready for the day. I’m
at 85 push-ups now. :)
I don’t think I will
miss much about Mexico. I really want to come back and explore though.
I’m buying a bullet proof vest before I do though.
My teacher is pretty
cool I’ve decided. :) I didn’t like her the first few times but now she’s
good. This week is easily the hardest with learning Spanish. We
have the hardest stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Story about that is
yesterday in the night class she was trying to explain this stuff to us and was
all like Es facil no? Which is like its easy right? And I just
started laughing. I laughed so hard because it was so not easy and it was
either laugh or start crying. She eventually figured that it was really
hard for us because we couldn’t really do any of it and she eventually gave up
it seems like. I’ve got to learn it sometime though! Fun stuff!
I’ll make sure to take
lots of pictures. :) Also can you maybe check American Airlines to see
their baggage fees in case I have to pay? I don’t think I will but I just
want to know what their standards are and if I have enough money.
I am really excited.
:) I can’t wait. I am not ready though. This Spanish is going
to kill me. I am fasting this weekend both that I can learn it quickly
and that my trainer will be pro so I can get lots of help and more time to get
it down. The sad part is that I feel like I have it down better than most
of the people in the district. They just can’t teach enough in 6 weeks.
I know it will come though.
Ok so this week was
pretty crazy. I can’t really remember any specific details from my entire
CMM stay here. So I’ll just type what I remember here.
So, a note about
Mexico. Pretty sketchy place. We hear gun shots all the time and
apparently there was this one guy who bumped into another as they were walking.
The guy who got bumped into took out a gun and shot the other guy a
couple times in the leg. All the Hispanics act like it’s completely
normal! The police men have semi-automatics too. (I tried to sneak a
picture without getting shot) Apparently if you go hiking the Mexicans
will just take you out from their houses. That’s why the bulletproof
vest.
Last week we played
soccer in the rain and it was so much fun. :) Since the ground is so
saturated, there were pools of water inches above the grass. Crazy
experience trying to kick the ball in that and having the ball go a couple
inches and you go flying. At the end we all did a penguin slide and oh
man it was so amazing. :)
So since basically my
entire district is going to California we all leave at the same time on the
same bus so we all are pulling an all-nighter and partying it up. It’s
going to be sweet! We all talk about Compton all the time. We have
decided that Brown and I will get teamed up as a companionship to go to Compton.
We will be Compton comps. :) What will happen is someone will shoot Brown
and the bullet will go through him and then through me and hit Elder Cahoon
because he got transferred at that time to Compton to be a trio with us.
The bullet will crack elder Cahoons nametag and stop in his white bible.
He will then perform emergency surgery on Brown and save his kidney
because that’s what the bullet hit when it hit him. Don’t worry the
bullet doesn’t hit anything vital with me. We will go to the hospital in
Long Beach and be out in a week back to the work. It’s going down.
So yesterday was
actually pretty depressing... We found out one of the people in our
district is leaving today because she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
We all have been a little depressed because of that and yeah... It
makes all of this a lot more real and sad when missionaries go home.
On a happy note I got
a haircut about an hour ago! I look pretty goofy because she put gel in
my hair and I haven’t used gel in forever. I kind of hate it now.
Whatever though. Today is the day for craziness since it’s our last
p day here! We have all sorts of fun stuff planned out like going on the
roof of this building and taking pictures and yeah just having fun! Got
to live up the last P day here!
I still haven’t given
a talk on Sunday and I may not because our zone is huge now. Some people won’t
speak so I might not but we will see! I better be prepared for it because
last week Elder Cahoon gave his second talk and since he already gave one he didn’t
prepare at all. It was pretty hilarious.
They have really
stepped up the food here since all the new missionaries have come. It’s
way nice to have tons of people here now because they care more about what they
serve us it seems like! I believe its Jeremiah 4:19 that the
oldest district here decided was the motto of the CCM. They left before
we were here a full week. :) Read and enjoy.
Anyway I should
probably stop now. I don’t really have much else to say. Thanks for
everything! Love you guys!
Elder Passey
