August 29, 2016

The Hospital...
Well what an exciting week full of little work because me and my companion had to go to the hospital on Tuesday and then Saturday. The reason is because he fell in the ccm and messed up his nose so he had to get surgery. Right now his nose is all taped up and it constantly bleeds so he has to tape a gause pad under his nose haha he looks awesome!! We were there at the hospital all Saturday and stayed the night which was wickeddddd!! The hospital is called Doctors Hospital and its the best hospital here in Mexico. The 8th most modern in the world! The scene we had was sweet and the room we stayed in was like a really nice hotel room and we got food and everything so it was pretty legit! 

   A couple funny things is one that the doctor that did the operation was typing on his computer and he types with two fingers only.... 8 years in medical school and never taught how to type.... sad really... hahah

   Here in our area i see more horses in the streets then dogs which is really... really... really... strange. Some of the horses we see are so skinny and their spines are basically tearing through there horse skin because they are so skinny so that is pretty sad. My companion loves horses and so he is always crying for them. not really but he does talk about them a lot.

     The scripture that I came across this week in my 200000 hours of studying in the hospital is Romans 12 verses 20 and 21. It talks about how kindness is really the best option for everything and it is amazing so go and read it!

   All is well here and im sure all is well there! Love you all (except you cameron)

             jk

Elder Passey

Elder Caceras and Elder Passey

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

August 15, 2016

Ya me voy
For those of you who speak in my tongue you will either know or have a guess of what ya me voy signifies. What it means is I am leaving my area and onto a new area. Tomorrow. My thoughts on this are very scattered. I was mentally prepared for a new companion and too show him the area and the people and continue the progress here but that isn't the Lords plan. Really is hard because now me and my companion have to write a note and tell the whats going on with everything so it is a little rough to take in. Hopefully in my next area I will have air conditioning (clima) and if I do then all will be well. I have to pack all my stuff today and then me and my companion go to the offices tomorrow early morning with all our stuff. Also bummed my spanish isn't what i wanted it to be when leaving my first area but hey I am pretty sure i will get by! It feels really different when your companion is leaving and going home. I will be on a whole new adventure with my next companion and so I am excited for that! I have many many pictures that we took with a lot of different families so I will send all of those too! Luckily I already sort of not really said bye to most people so heyyyy lets look on the brightside. Here is some pictures with some of the families! All is well here and im sure i will have a lot to say next week with my new adventure starting! LES AMO!

Elder Passey

August 4, 2016

What.. four days later?
It has not been that long since my last letter. A whole four days of normality and missionary work and not a whole lot of things to really report. I would like to first specify I actually do not eat beans EVERY day. I do eat them a lot and therefore the song is engraved? (cant spell) on my soul. If you were all wondering what I do eat besides beans (which i know you are all dying to know) here is what we had in the last four days. 

Spaghetti (different from America, Somtimes better) with mashed potatoe and fried fish. For dessert that day we had bananas with cream which is truly amazing i think it is just bananaas and that sweet milk cream stuff but who knows it was delicious.

The next day we had BEANS!, RICE, AND MEAT ON A BONE!! (no idea what meat it is i think its chicken never really too sure.

Sunday we had like a salad kindof thing with noodles, tomato and cut up hotdog which had an interesting sauce so its not just beans and rice every day but a lot of days it is.

    Being in Mexico you have many exieriences and soem can be good and some can be bad. This particular one that I am going to share is just purly horryfying (cant spell, thanks spanish)  Entonces... A long time ago in a galaxy far far away me and my companion were back at the apartment after a days work and I came across a cockroach... I deccided i was tired o killing these massive creatures with creature spray they gave us a the beggining of this two year adventure. I decided to attempt to use a screw driver but obviously cockroaches are somewhat intelligent and it started to run across the whoel as i chased it down with y screwdriver in hand. (i realize now this shoudve been recorded because it was nothing short of hilarious. As i was in pursuit Th cockroach decided today would be a good day to start flying. Now to this day i am not sure if all cockroaches can fly or not but this did. As i ran the other way in horror I grabbed the kiling spray and succeeded in my quest to stop the cockroach and to this day it is still dead on our floor. The End.

     I came across a scipture in Doctrine and Covenants 122:7 which says 

 7 And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into thehands of murderers, and the sentence of death passedupon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowingsurge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thineenemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all theelements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, ifthe very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide afterthee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall givethee experience, and shall be for thy good.

    That really hit me and as i thought about it really realized the trials I have and the diffiulty I have and the difficulties my investigators have is all for their own good and that God has a plan for us and no matter what really happens or what we go through something good come out of it wether that be blessings or just learning something or maybe learning something and helping someone with that same situation or trial later, so dont get down yourslef and know that everything is for the good no matter how bad!

    I love you all and hope you all know that God loves you infinitely and that whatever trial you encounter that you can go to your Heavenly Father in prayer and ask for that help you need. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings hapiness and it is the greates knowledge and the happiest knowledge we have. Love you all! 

Elder Passey

Aug 4, 2016

Beans, Beans, Beans

You all must know that I come up with the subject name in about half a second not with any purpose or relation to my email or anything. Today i figured i would relate it because here in Mexico not only do people speak spanish but they also eat beans. LOTS AND LOTS OF BEANSSSSS. If you do not remember the beans song then i congratulate you because that has been burned into my head when it runs through every dayI eat beans which is every day. As I have a little time under my belt (not really) i have come to realize the quality of beans which is strange because you would think all beans are the same but no no no they are not the same. All sorts of flavors and kinds. 

   Apart from beans a couple things that happened or happening is as follows. Our recent converts fany and jocelyn have a little cousin and her name is gema (gem in english. I know, how sweet of the to name their daughter gem) sooo jocelyn decided to teach her my name so when ever we go to their house to teach a lesson gema always says "Passey" in her little small one year old voice, pretty hilarious and awesome if you were to ask me. 

The work is good my companion goes home in a week and a half so that pretty much breaks my.... i would say heart but thats just weird im going to go with spirit. It breaks my spirit but im excited to find out who my next companion will be. I a ¿m sure i will be staying here in Lomas De Pedregal for a few more months. The new pressident Maucotel is really awesome and I am excited to work with him for my two years i have. 

Hopefully as things change in a week and a half the work will change for the better because right now my companion and I have been struggling with some people and had to stop teaching people that weren't progressing but hey we keep going right!

Love the mission here and I have not yet doubted coming here to serve for a moment I love the work and the people here and cant wait for pretty much two years more of it! Love you all and here is some pictures!

July 25, 2016

The canicula started on the 14 or 15th and really it hasn't been bad. Some days it has even been normal and not scorching hot which is incredible. I am sure 20 days into it we will feel the power of the canicula... hopefully not though. The mission right now is awesome as far as the people. As far as progress here it has slowed down and we are probably going to have to drop some investigators because lack of attending church which will be hard to do but also necessary (no idea how to spell that) 

   The spanish is coming along and I am understanding alot more. My speaking abilities still lack butbeing able to understand a lot more is amazing you dont fel as lost. We run into some strange people that attack about harry potter or a book about satan or how every religion is right hahah oh man the confusion in Mexico is so fun!! 

One of the highlights of the week was intercanges with our zone leaders. I was with elder Romero and he is hilarious and so fun to work with. We had some success that day and found some new investigators. The cool thing was we were in my area so i was the one who had to guide  us really start the lessons with our investigators and talk to them a lot more then i usually do but itt went really well and i didnt struggle with anything in specific reeally. That night my companion and eder Romeroes companion came back to our house to sleep because we always play soccer in the morning on saturday. We didnt get much sleep because four people and its alwayss hot but it was pretty fun all four of us cracking jokes and what not. 

Sunday comes around and it can either be amazing or dissappointing because of investigators not coming to church. It was slightly dissappointing butlife goes on and you learrn from it. 

In Mexico all is well, weird, but well. Love you all and rememeber, God Loves You.

Elder Passey

July 18, 2016

Wow time really just blends here in Mexico. I really dont know what to write because i cant remember if my experiences were this week or the week before or the week before that hahaha. We ran into a couple drunk guys during th week the first wanted money to return to his house with his wife apparently but its just difficult to trust a drunk man with your money... The second was more of a distraction then anything me and companion were super far away from the comida we had to get to by two and it was two thirty and we also had to drop some stuff off at a members house and so we were going to take a taxi and so we were waiting to flag one down and this guy walks across the street and walks up to us and starts talking to us and here we are thinking (uggghhhhhh what is happeningggggg) he was asking us how to change his life and wouldnt stop talking ahhaha so we were late to the food. I really think its funny when drunk guys come to talk to us and recognize us as missionaries. 
We have had some huge upsets and some huge blessings this week. One of the good things was our convert got her temple recommend and so she is going to the temple on thursday so that was pretty great. The downer was on sunday we walked to cañada blanca to pick up some of our investigators and cañada is the farthest away colony in our area so we get to their house and they either didn't want to come or they were sleeping is what their mom said so that was pretty disappointing to be honest, it is truly weird sometimes because sometimes people will read everything you commit them too and do everything you ask of them but wont come to church... strange really but hey it is what it is. 

So here in Mexcio mtn dew is hard to find and if you know me you know i am a fan of Mtn Dew.  One of the ward members told me his brother goes to the united states a lot so he got me some mtn dew. Basically what im saying is being in Mexico doesn't stop you from enjoying the things you once enjoyed hahahaha. 

Also here when its ten at night or three in the morning it doesn't really drop below 80 degrees. ever. 

Love you all 

    Elder Passey

It's almost 10:00 pm and it's still 98 degrees