Alright, so we're here with another episode of my speed writing because I'm short on time again and still have to go get my hair cut and do some shopping. But man this week was crazy!!!!! I just got an adrenaline rush. . . I'm pumped up to be writing this email!!! Each week for P-day we have to take a bus that goes over some gross dirt roads and would be like a 45-minute drive on nice roads but on the bus can take up to 3 hours!
Alright, so this week let me think.....
Tuesday! Ok, so Monday nights we always stay the night here in one of the other elders' houses because our area is so far away it's pointless to get home, eat, sleep and come right back for the District Meeting Tuesday morning. But this Tuesday was crazy because we were gonna have to spend the night AGAIN here in REU because Wednesday we had a Multizone Conference.
Tuesday after the meeting, Elder Saunders, our district leader, and I headed back to my area to do some interviews. We rode on the bikes which was pretty funny because he's a huuuuuuge dude. . .like super buff and everything on this little bike that we have. But we got all of the interviews done and then we headed to try to catch a ride to the bus station. We left at 5 and we started walking to get to the bus station at 7. We walked and caught some ''Jalons'' but at 6:45 we were still walking and getting nervous. Then another Jalon appeared and we barely made it to the bus in time! So that was just a miracle! We spent the night in Reu Wednesday. We had the multizone conference that was just incredible! We ended up spending the rest of the day with the ZLs because once again it was late so we stayed to go to the Zone Meeting the next day. The last bus to El Codo leaves relatively early in the afternoon.
Thursday we had the meeting and got some work done. Friday we worked way hard and taught a bunch of people but in the night my comp started feeling sick and Saturday he was sick all day we only left in the night to make sure the baptismal clothing fit. Sunday we had our baptisms!
OK so let me tell you about this lady Hna Flor. She's from Honduras and has 3 kids. Her husband has an alcohol problem but we're working with him and he's making progress I think. We invited her to pray and she told us she had a dream that she knew she needed to be baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. So she did and now she just loves it. She introduced us to 2 of her friends that if all goes well they will be baptized on the 11th! So she and her youngest son, Wellington got baptized this Sunday and it was super awesome! I'll send pictures next week because this week the computer doesn't have an input so I can't send any.
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| Hermana Flor y Wellington y Hermano KEKO |
But today we played dodge ball which was super sweet! Then we went to eat at McDonald's!!! So that was dope!
But all is well here we found 2 more tacuatzines living with us here so we're gonna go for them soon. Someone told us we could eat them so we might cook the next one up. I'll let you guys know! ;)
Post mission insert. This area killed me. It was so hot, and all the water is brought from pumps and it's just super dusty all the time. I got way sick with Chikungunya and ended up having BU (short for butt urine in mission slang) for like 3 weeks. I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and constantly was carrying a fresh pair of shorts, underwear, and toilet paper because I just couldn't make it to the bathrooms. The worst night was when I had a 104-degree fever and just had a pool of sweat under me in the hammock I was sleeping in for the night trying to cool down. All of my bones hurt, and my old injuries from soccer or sprained ankles in lacrosse swelled up and were super painful. A few really close calls involved me running to the bathroom behind a member's house, unfortunately, the member was showering behind their house as I did so. I closed my eyes, shouted "los siento Hermana" and made it with moments to spare.
Post mission insert. This area killed me. It was so hot, and all the water is brought from pumps and it's just super dusty all the time. I got way sick with Chikungunya and ended up having BU (short for butt urine in mission slang) for like 3 weeks. I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and constantly was carrying a fresh pair of shorts, underwear, and toilet paper because I just couldn't make it to the bathrooms. The worst night was when I had a 104-degree fever and just had a pool of sweat under me in the hammock I was sleeping in for the night trying to cool down. All of my bones hurt, and my old injuries from soccer or sprained ankles in lacrosse swelled up and were super painful. A few really close calls involved me running to the bathroom behind a member's house, unfortunately, the member was showering behind their house as I did so. I closed my eyes, shouted "los siento Hermana" and made it with moments to spare.
Have a great week!
Love your favorite,
Elder Scotty Pugmire
Response to my letter . . .
Ok, I always thought opossums were cute and cuddly. No worries someone just told us that some of the tacuatzines you can eat so the next one we're gonna cook it up! My health this last week was a little bad, but I'm better now and my comp got a case of the chikungunya but is recovering really quickly. My comp is good. He's the only member of his family and it's tough for him some days but he's doing good and going to be a great missionary if he works at it. I'll let him know though!
OH my gosh, I'm dying right now and all of the people around me are trying to figure out what's so funny. That Grant is a funny kid. Basically here all I want to do is drink water so that's not a problem.
Thanks for everything Mom! I love you a ton!
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