Dear Family, 1ST Mission Field Letter –
August 26, 2013
Finally I have stuff to write about!! Tueday was awesome! It
was great being able to talk to you guys. Villahermosa was great! My mission
president is so funny! The first night he didnt expect 5 more of us to show up
so he had to call a member, thats where I met Sergio, he had a big truck to put
our luggage in. Then we went to dinner. We got back at like 12 at night, and we
slept with some missionaries right next to the mission office. We hung out at
the mission office the whole next day doing paperwork. Then it came time for
the trainers. We all sat in the Chapel next to the mission office and had a
devotional. Then each of the new missionaries would get up and read a
letter that we wrote about us. Then President Morales would make us stand there
until one of the trainers felt that they were supposed to train, by the spirit.
haha President Morales has never done that before. My new companion is Elder
Zuñiga. He is a native of mexico. Then we got transfered to my first area! The
city im in is called Cuatro Caminos (4 Ways). It is awesome. It is so hard
though because I cant speak the language very good. I cant understand what
people are saying, even my companion (he doesnt speak and english, of course
:P) I have no one to talk to. And everyone looks at me weird and calls me ´the
Gringo´. BUT I love it here. Little by little I am starting to understand the
people. My Spanish is improving and my companions English is improving ;). I
know I have been blessed. I cant wait to know spanish. They talk so fast haha.
As far as the ward goes. There is an attendance of about 60 in our ward. They
are so great. They go a little easy on me haha. The bishop is nice, and ohh my
gosh his little 3 year old daughter is so cute!!!!! She is probable the cutest
little girl I have ever seen!! The food here is great. The citys are terrible,
soooo filthy!! Me and Elder Zuñiga do a great job of keeping our appartment
clean though. The driving here is TERRIBLE!!!!!!! They do whatever they want,
whenever they want, and there are speed bumps like every 100 yards. Crossing
the streets in Villahermosa was fun haha. Here it is a little safer. The rain
here is so funny! It only last for about 5-10 min, but every time is rains it
is a flash flood! And it happens like every half and hour. Plus we have a tin
roof so thats no fun at night. We have 7 progressing investigators. Martin- 11
( He reminds me soo much of Zack it is rediculus!!) his brother Enrique- 15,
Fransico- ? 60+... Fransisco is a special man. He used to drink alot but has
now quit. He absolutely loves the Bible!! and has a strong testimony of it. He
loves the book of mormon. He loves the Gospel!!! He is a wonderful person. We
are going to ask him to be baptized hopefully tonight. We also have Linda- her
sons are members and attend church reguarly. She has an 8 year old son who we
are also teaching. Then we have Cristofer- 9: We invited him to be baptized and
he said yes but his parents need to talk about it first. They are both less
active members. His dad speaks english but I havent got the opportunity to talk
to him yet haha. Things here are going great! I hope I have baptisms to tell
you about next week!! Also I have spent alot of time with the mission leader
this week! i swear all of them are the same. He is like a brown Ben Hemming,
Parley Holliday Jr, and Rob Blackhurst mix ahaha. Hno. Emanuel. He is soo cool.
Tell dad congrats on His deer!!! It is soo cool!!! I love you all very much!!
-Elder Parduhn
P.S. Im going to try to put the photos on Cosco. Can you put
together a photo album for me??
I also
forgot to say. Last night me and Elder Zu駃ga
taught at our makshift MTC ahaha. Hno. Emanuel had the idea to have the members
be involvled in missionary work. 创Every member a missionary创
It was really fun
