June 20, 2016

SOOOO i dont know really, here i am in Mexico just you know, preaching the Gospel this week hasn't been a complete crazy experience. EXCEPT for when we were at a members house and she wanted us to give her a blessing so i automatically assumed my companion would do it. He did the first part and then he wanted me to give the blessing. I pretty much lost my mind and forgot all spanish and told him i dont know the right words in spanish to start it and so he pulls out his mission manual and reads the words and then closes it and puts it in his pocket. All of what he had said when in both my ears and then quickly backout. i told him i couldn't memorize that that fast so he just told me to do it in english haha. I decided i would do it in english, and so i did at first but the blessing part i went for it in spanish so the lady could understand what was going on. All in all it was a caught off guard kind of experience but hey all is well all is well. 

I also gloriously found out mtn dew actually does exist is Mexico, one of elder sanders friends sent him some from guadalupe, i will have to figure how to communicate with the amigo de elder sanders and get some myself. The mission is still really awesome and my spanish is actually improving and so is my understanding i understand quite a bit now which is just really the gift of tongues. today we studied together as a zone and played soccer after. Ive been really missing Lacrosse here in Mexico and whenever i tell people thats my favorite sport they look at me like i just spoke english hahaha but seriously nobody knows what that is here in Mexico. Oh well i guess they are missing out. It also rained pretty hard today but we were at the food during the crazy rain so we aren't soaked. The streets are filled with water and sewage because of overflow and the sewers here just dont like to contain sewage which is really strange. I just wanted to let all who read this know that here in Mexico they actually speak spanish. Really strange concept to grasp i know but they actually dont speak english, mindblowing really. haha but all in all its still going great we have two more weeks and then we will be in my companions last transfer which is sad but all good im excited for him. Love you all and if you have any just really good jokes you have to tell someone im all ears. Love you all! 

June 13, 2016

ok so the o is sticky on this keyboard so again, bear with me. Lets get all the strange expieiences and crazy things out of the way at first. First off my good friend Jared always says "Peanut butter, Finish" because i have a huge jar of peanut butter that i got from sister Bird which she got from costco. One day jared told me he ate it all so after that he would always say that, and then one daoy he was with us and we were teaching fany and jocelyn and jocelyn asked what peanut butter was so then jared said "Cream de noot" thats what it sounded like he said when he was trying to say cream de nut i just thought that was an expieience i had to share. 

So my crazy first event that happened was after sacrament meeting was over we walked out to outside and there was this dude juist knocked out sitting down against the wall... My companion and one of the counselors of the bishopric took the initiative to wake him up. When he woke up his eyes were so yellow and you could tell he was pretty drunk. We got him up and walked him outside of the church area and asked where he lived and he didnt say much. Then he kept shaking our hands and asking us what our names are haha. He then started to cry and said he wanted to pray but he couldnt and my companion tried to offer to teach him in his home but he just wouldnt say yes or tell us where he lived. We got him walking and he only would talk to me because im white hahaha and so in his drunken english he kept asking me what my name was and why i liked life haha. We turned two corners and told him we were going to leave. he asked if i could stay with him but my companion said i had to go with him... sadly.... hahaha so we took a different way back to the church to confuse this drunken man but when we got back to the church he was sitting on the church steps. hahaha so basically the drunken man made his back drunk to the church. a miracle really. We then called for backup from sanders and diego and they came and he kept telling us and showing us his six six six tattoo and his torres tattoo because that was his name. He kept saying six six six number of the beast and then would say it again in spanish hahah. Then we decided to walk him a lot farther away and then drop him off. The whole way there he would only talk to me and elder sanders and try to talk in english. he kept telling us he respected us and then would swear at us and then tell us he respected us again which was a little strange but oh well. We dropped him off pretty far from the church and then that was it. if you have any questions let me know it was a great expieience.

We had a baptism!! Fany and Jocelyn got baptized which was great! I baptized jocelyn and my comp baptized fany! i will attach pictures. Jocelyn is the shorter one. 

We had a zone conference that lasted about 7 hours with the president but it was good and i enjoyed it and we got hot dogs and COSTCO MUFFINS it was a dream come true. 

I came across a scripture in Timothy chapter 4 verse 7 that i belive says "I have fought a good fight, i have finished my course, i have kept the faith" dont quote me on that because not 100 percent sure thats word for word but pretty sure haha I think its really the goal for our lives and when it comes to judgement day we should be proud to say that we have kept the faith and did what was commanded of us. I invite all to really strive to magnify your callings and magnify your lives in helping others and bringing others to the Gospel because it is the only way to true joy and happiness. Love you all and hope everyone has a great week!

also a picture with Jared and Pelon, pelon is wearing the sandals

Joselyn, Fany, Elder Passey and Elder Carceres

June 6, 2016

AYE everyone this weeks has been nothing short of well, good! We are going to have a baptism for sure on saturday for Fany and Jocelyn I will send a picture next week when it happens! They are two of my favorite investigators! 
So here in Monterrey in the streets where some of the sewers are they randomly spew out sewage into the streets.... just randomly on a random day not really important if it rained or not it just happens. Literally... its disgusting.... pure sewage... alrighttt on to better things! 

So my companion got his last and final wisdom tooth out but really didnt stop him from working hard though or eat normal food.... which could be bad in the wrong run because of infection and sadness but hey he isnt dead yet! We also had intercambios with the zone leaders. I went with Elder Azuara and he doesnt speak english so the day was a little long and hard to communicate but hey it was fun we had a lot of contacts and lessons on peoples front porch basically! Still working hard and its going good! The pictures are of a couple new ties i bought and a hat i got for really cheap andddd me and elder diego with a giant pizza! Love you all!

May 30, 2016

alrioght so my o´s are sticky on this keyboard so bear with me. the Baptism was the best!!! This week was so great and i loved it all! A couple things that happened was we made pancakes in the morning and my companion mixed peanut butter in with them! at first i thought it was a horrible idea but when i tried it it tastes amazing so i advise it to everyone! another great tasty treat is lime juice more or less! so you get a thing full of water and then maybe 6 or seven limes and squeeze the juice into the water and then a bunch of sugar like as much as you would koolaid and then bammmmm it tastes like pure joy!! try it! The baptism went really well and i will send pictures too! there was only about 10 or 15 people that were there because katy doesnt like a lot of people to be present haha. also nobody told us that it takes three hours for the font to fill so we started about an hour before so we had to get a bunch of buckets of water and pour it in the font haha everyone was questioning what was going on i am sure of it! It was a great baptism and an awesome experience for me!

Today in the morning we went to this big mall and and i bought a shirt for 200 pesos.... so many pesos! haha thats about 20 bucks american money. Its a sweet shirt ill tell you! We will maybe hopefully have another baptism on saturday with fany and jocelyn! we set up a baptismal interview for them on thursday so hopefully it all works out and we have another one! yesterday when we visited them they were having a party for a two year old with basically every family member they know haha! this really drunk guy asked my "what are you doing in my country" with more mean words and and then he said he was joking and then asked me "where was you born" but it was so slurred he had to repeat himself three times before i could decode the english he was using haha but it was pretty funny and we got cake so hey it was alright! great week and still enjoying all the great times! 

(What he said when I asked him if he was sick of eating tortillas.) im used to it i usually just have a sandwhich when i get home because i never have money for anything else really haha so it always bread and peanut butter and jelly but its amazing because its different from tortillas!
Love you all!

Elder Passey