Transfers, Elder Saucedo and hard work!

So lets get straight to the good stuff. I can skype on Christmas!! I have no idea what time so just be ready to go around like noonish I would assume. Not sure. But I'm way excited. I have a count down in my agenda of how many more days I have left until I can skype haha


So now some missionary stuff. We had changes and so I have a new companion. His name is Elder Saucedo and he is from Columbia. I never thought that by serving a mission I would have friends from just about every Spanish speaking country that there is. He is way cool. He is really good friends with Elder Reinoso also so we have a common friend. The only thing is that his accent is super thick. I mean he talks super fast and his accent is like the stereotypical latino super thick accent. So that makes it really hard to understand but by the end of this transfer I should be freaking fluent haha He and I work so hard. I seriously missed working. We are dead tired by the end of the day from just teaching and being on our grind all day. We alread have like 7 new investigators with baptismal dates and everything. Hes a stud. The only other problem is that he is the district leader and has no idea what he is doing. And because I have only been with district leaders in my mission, I am teaching him how to do it. It's really kind of funny haha
I'm super excited for this whole transfer. I am starting to feel really comfortable with Spanish, I can teach well, and people are understanding me more and more everyday. I have a ton of confidence in myself and a new determination to just get going. Elder Chichia was a really cool guy but he made me lose that desire to go out and find people and teach them. Now that I'm with Elder Saucedo, I'm just itchin to go and teach some people. Its a good feeling.
I love you so much and sorry for not writing yesterday, There wasn't internet in all of Cantarranas.
Elder Garry

Week 22 Good things and poop in a cup

Hello dearest family and friends!
Let´s just kick things off with the best news that a missionary can give! Our baptism went great!! I mean it was fantastic! She is so excited to start her new life and is so dedicated to the gospel it amazes me! I'm so happy to stay here for another 8 weeks to just see her grow! She has a huge family so I know that we will just sneek our way in and teach the rest of them too! One daughter already told me that she wants me to baptize her before I leave so that is great!! Baptisms just make all of your hard work and your crazy stressful life vale la pena! It's great! Xiomara even tells us that she wants to go visit people and share the word of God with us! She has an alcoholic sister and invites us over every time that she is there. The sister is literally crazy but I love her with all of my heart. I'm excited to work with her too. And Xiomara is in my Gospel Principals class and she answers like every question. It makes the class go my fast because I'm not just awkwardly standing there hoping that I get a response. She is just great. She washes our clothes for free and feeds us like every day. If we say jump, she would say how high. That's how much she loves us.
Okay, also we will have transfers this Wednesday which means that my ball and chain will be going home! I love him as a person I just hate him as a companion haha he made me really mad Saturday that I just started yelling at him in English. I'm sure I came off as crazy. We are fine now and later that day we were good to go as well but he really made me angry. I'm not usually one to get super angry either.
I'm excited to see who my new companion will be! I dont care who it is really. I hope its a Latino so I can speak Spanish more and get better but if it is a gringo I would be happy too! I want to train more than anything though. That would be so fun. Especially if my niño is like a 3 foot tall latino. That would be my dream. Maybe one day.
Another thing is that I was still sick all this week that I went to the hospital on Wednesday and had to poop in a cup. I've never been so ashamed. They didnt even give me a bag to put it in so I had to walk shamefully out of the bathroom with a cup of poop in my hand. Not fun. I go back again next Monday too. The first results said that I had nothing wrong but I clearly have something because I had been throwing up for like a week straight and every time that I eat I just feel sick. So that's why I'm going back. Maybe I will get sick and they will send me home for like 2 weeks to recover and i can be home for Christmas! haha quien sabe.
This week was just good. I was obedient and I felt the blessings of my obedience. We had old investigators ask us to come back and talk to them again and they are very promising. The Lord will bless you more than you can imagine if you just follow the simple rules. Its easy and I love it.
I love you and I look forward to talking to you all again!
Adios
Elder Garry

Week 21

Alright so this week was a good one. My companion and I were both sick all this week so we actually didn't do much but what we did was really good. We have a solid baptism this week on the 5 and I'm super excited! It is a lady named Xiomara and has been talking with missionaries for literally years and never even went to church or accepted a baptismal date. Elder Reinoso and I tried to go to her house so many times but was never there and one day with Elder Chichia we didn't have anything to do so we tried her house again and she was finally there. We had been teaching her and she even started going to church, reading the Book of Mormon and has a testimony of her own! She told us that she wouldn't be getting baptized if she wasn't 100% committed to the gospel. It just was a super strong testimony builder that Heavenly Father really does prepare people at different rates and that there are specific people who are meant to help them in these moments. So I'm really excited to see this baptism. Elder Chichia will be doing it and I thought that I would be bummed to not be selected to baptize her but it really didn't bother me nor phase me. It should be a good day.
We have another baptism scheduled for the same day with the lady named Andrea but I get the feeling that it will fall again. She is such a bum! It´s super frustrating but we will just keep working with her until finally she gets dunked. Her daughter is special needs and blind so Andrea is always preoccupide(I've been speaking Spanish too long, is that how you spell preoccupied?) with the daughter and can never leave the house and when we teach, the daughter just freaks out and starts screaming and yelling and then Andrea just gets angry and starts shouting like an angry Honduran. But the times that we do get to teach are way cool and she understands and loves the church. Just a matter of how we can get her to feel the spirit with her daughter so she can listen to our messages more often.
One thing that was really cool this week is that we got a new church building! Elder Reinoso and I just went crazy and reactivated everyone and our old church building wasn't big enough so they had to build a new one! It is so big and pretty. I mean it is a place where you can really learn and feel the spirit! Its nothing like what we have in the states but it is still 1000x better than what we had. I am still not satisfied with it. The church people said that if we get 100 active members in our branch then they will build a real real church building like the ones in the states so I'm ready to get to work. Right now we have about 50 who are real active and then 20 who are active every other week. but in all we should have about 180 members who live in our area so I want to try to reactivate as many as possible! I WANT A REAL CHURCH BUILDING!
Another cool thing that Elder Chichia and i have been doing is Insanity. Its like P90X but I'm pretty sure I wont get any stronger from it just that my endurance will get better. This stuff is so hard but I love it! I feel so refreshed when I'm done and the videos are only about half an hour so they fit right into our morning schedule.
I'm still struggling with Chichia because he doesn't want to work but I'm doing my best to keep him going until he dies in like 9 days.
I love you all and miss you all.
Elder Garry