E-mail 11/24/2014

Well we finally managed to move into the new house.  I really like the place, it´s one of the nicest places I´ve had in the mission.  But it gets really dark at night in there when we turn of the lights.  My poor companion ended up with a companion like me.  So while he was brushing his teeth, I went and closed the door to the room, so he thought I was in there and then I hide in the other room.  He finished brushing his teeth and turned off the light and he told me that he thought about some scary movies.  When he got to the door he heard my feet behind him and started freaking out because he thought I was in the other room, so he thought that I was someone else that got into the house.  So when I got to him and made a sound, I think he almost had a heart attack.  So that´s me abusing my companions.

But as far as work is coming along, we didn´t get that much done because of taking care of the problems with the house, but that´s all taken care of.   Saturday we went out to San Gerardo and went by foot.  It took us about an hour and a half to find the reference they gave us, but it is super nice out there, and the place has only privet communities.  So it´d be like what they say here "bien fresa" but I´m not sure how to translate that.  I know what it means I just can´t think of the exact meaning in English.  Basically it means a rich or nice looking place, and it was out in the middle of no were.  But we did find out which bus goes by, so we took it on the way back.

Well there's not much more that happened this week, but I´ll send some pics.

Les amo 

Elder Durrant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-mail 11/17/2014

Well this week nothing went as planned, but as you know "plans are made to be changed."  We didn´t have the baptism this week that we had planned, and he will be going to Mexico City this week, so we gave him some ways to contact the missionaries down there.  We didn´t manage to get the house rented yet that we went to see last Monday, he has some issues about the contract (as always :( )  but we will be talking to him tomorrow.  One thing that went better then I thought was an activity we had on Saturday to encourage the members to do the work of salvation.  I will admit that I was a little concerned about effectiveness of sending the members out to contact people on the street, but it turned out better then I thought.  People were more accepting of them then they are to two white guys with a white shirt and tie.  I just hope that it´ll encourage them to talk to their friends.  The other nice thing is, seeing as the ward is at the point of destruction, so it has encouraged them to do home teaching, they just made the assignments this week, and if they do it, this will be the first time I have seen home teaching since I got here.  I´m hoping they do it, because if not, it doesn´t matter how much work we put into it, we won´t be able to save the ward on our own.

Oh me and my companion have found some Christmas lights, so we put them up in our house for the Christmas spirit.  I know what your thinking, that it´s too early to be thinking about Christmas.  But not here in Mexico, everyone here loves to celibate, the day they stop celebrating is a sad day (well that´s not really true, they still celebrate when they are sad :).

Les amo

Elder Durrant

 

 

 

  

 

E-mail 11/10/2014

Wow, it´s been a crazy week.  We have been looking for a new house to rent, because our house in the area of the hermanas and it´s in bad condition.  If we have too many things on, the wires start to fry, and I feel like the boiler might explode one of this days.  But the problem has been that there aren´t any houses in rent.  Someone just let us know about a house in rent, so we are going to check it out right after we finish writing.  Then today, me and Elder Arnold didn´t have transfers, but Elder Montes de oca did.  Last night he tried getting into his house to pack, but the lock wouldn't work, so he had to wait to pack until this morning.  We called up the owner of the house and he came and checked it out.  Come to find out it was just the key, it got damaged some how, so we finally got into the house about 9-9:30 and that´s when he should have been in the central, so we just took him to the offices directly.  It´s nice to see my first area, it brings back memories.  I can´t believe how long it´s been since I served in that area.  Well the time just keeps ticking away whether we like it or not.  We also stopped by Wal-Mart on the way back, we stocked up on food for the next few weeks.

Les amo 

Elder Durrant

E-mail 11/03/2014

This week has been busy.  We are continually blessed with more and more people to teach, and even thou we are in a trio, and he tries to work in his area as much as possible, we manage to get to just about everyone in the week.  The members are getting more and more involved as it is being stressed in the stake that it is the work of the members and we are here to help.  We did manage to go on splits this week, so that helped too.

Right now, we don`t know if they will take a part of our ward or combine it with another, but it will probably happen in December.  Hopefully they will just take a part of the other ward. 

We were so happy to see a family that we have been teaching, show up for church, we didn`t think they would go, they actually showed up late because they thought it was at 10, but it was at 9, but it was like a missionaries dream.  All the members have befriended them and they talked about ways they could help them with some of the problems that they have.  They are also trying to invite them to the ward activities, but we also found out why they hadn`t gone before, it`s just that they thought that when they went to church that we would stop visiting them.

We have the first counselor of the stake presidency in our ward.  He served a mission and went to BYU and his wife is from France.  He told us that he signed up to give us food on thanksgiving day. :) it`ll be awesome unless by some unfortunate reason I get transferred next week, I don`t think so, but you never know what the Lord has in store.

Les Amo

Elder Durrant