August 22, 2016

The difference is real...
WOW!!!! What a new way of live. The mission is still the mission and the work is the same work but wow everything else is so different. I am now in a place called valle hermoso (beautiful valley) which is just so different because of the feeling of not knowing your area. I am here with Elder San Pablo and he is from Mexico city and is pretty awesome. I dont understand everything he says but hey we are working on it haha. I realize how much I have learned in the mission and from Elder Caceres who is now home now (sad) and how incredible of a missionary and example he was for me. Elder san pablo has 3 months in the mission and i have 5 hahahaha so we are so fresh. I am the senior companion (I know i dont know how it happened either) but here we are and he doesn't know the area very well so we are pretty much opening an area basically and as of now i realize his last companion was a fritoooooo which means basically they didnt work a whole lot... soooo here I am with a lot to work with. Its pretty cool being the senior companion really whatever you say goes. I say we contact then we contact hahah but its super weird and i dont feel like i am fully prepared to make all the decisions but hey im here anyway. Elder Caceres and i didn't sleep last monday because we were packing and what not so that was cool. Tuesday the first day in valle hermoso we started contacting and this police car pulled over and this police man started talking to me IN ENGLISH!! haha so i responded in english too and he said there was a guy who needed help by the 7 eleven and so i asked what he need help with and he responded Jesus! so then i told him we would help the man and i asked if the police man needed Jesus too and he said he didn't and that he had him already because he was christian and then they drove away haha pretty weird experience. 

   When we were walking to the food i saw a sign that was like a lost dog sign but it said lost turtle.... ahahahha how do you lose a turtle.....

     During a contact i was telling this young fellow that people know us by the name mormons and i asked what he thought about mormons and then he told me it is a groseria (a bad word or thing) hahaha i learned there is a bad word like mormon and that the kid probably heard the bad word and not mormon..... still working on the accent...

     We have run into some strange people here. Some that dont belive in God but belive in the Bible... awkward... or others that want to change their lives but continue to drink beer in front of us..... oh how fun Mexico is!! 

    The ward here is pretty great but a lot smaller then my last ward... There is probably 50 people that showed up to church. All the missionaries ahd to give a talk including me sadly and apparently i talked too long (says the hermanas in our ward) but really i was so worried about my spanish i didnt realize what time i started or ended hahaha. 

   All in all its hard to change areas so early and im sad but hey the people here are great! Love you all and Remember the blessings you have!

  

    Elder Passey