yeah i´m pretty sure they don´t do any cinco de mayo things down here, although there is like a plaza thing down here named that, but there´s no big parties that i know of haha. and yeah i´m feeling better now, i´m not sick anymore, but that one got me pretty good! i think i lost a lot of weight, well ok not a lost, but i felt really skinny after cause i basically just didn´t eat anything for 2 days but kept working, so after i felt pretty skinny haha. i´m a little surprised i haven´t lost any weight this change though, what with the hills and everything, but i´ve seemed to just maintain. oh well, i still have like 6 months so i don´t have to have a perfect body quite yet :) about talking, probably what i´ll do is just call on saturday night and we´ll for sure set up everything. to be completely honest i don´t know at what time. i don´t know what time it is where you´re at either, so i guess just more or less be prepared at like night. we generally eat dinner at like 7 or 8, so i don´t know if it´ll be before or after that, but i guess we´ll see :) i talked to some people yesterday about using their computers, so that shouldn´t be a problem, so yeah on like saturday we´ll make sure we´re all good :) that´s cool for mathew too! now there´ll be more people i can speak spanish with! right now it´s only like adri right? and michael almost has a year about now too huh? so that means those 2 are gonna miss each other for awhile! changes are coming up too, they´re the 15th, so just this week and it´s over, then only 4 changes left! but i´m not counting don´t worry! :)
well, to be honest this week was really really quiet. since we changed pday, you already know what happened up until tuesday. wednesday was a normal day, not a lot really happened. thursday something more or less exciting happened though. so they called us like tuesday and said that we had an appointment with the mexican embassy on thursday at 9 in the morning, so wednesday night we decided it would be better to just sleep in the house of the assistants cause it´s closer and then we wouldn´t have to get up at like 4 to be able to travel from where we are to get there on time. so we left our house at like 9 to go to the ap´s house and ended up getting there at about 11ish. they at least have ac in this one room, so for a night i got to sleep with ac so that was cool haha. but we got up, did a few things before this cita, then went to the embassy. there we waited and stuff while they had my comp and a few others fill out forms and get interviews and things like that, and finally we left at about 1ish. i guess they ended up giving my comp a leaving date of the 29th of may, cause this isn´t his mission, he´s supposed to be in mexico, but is just now getting his visa. so that´s exciting i guess, this has been a rough change, and honestly he just needs to go to his mission, but now i´m worried cause it wouldn´t make a lot of sense to take him out of this area for only 2 weeks and then ship him off to mexico, and so it makes more sense to just leave him here with me, but honestly that would be so hard. i need a change. i need someone who just wants to work super hard, cause as of right now we basically have nothing and the area is more or less dead, so we need to do some hard work to breathe some life into it, and so i need someone who actually wants to do that. i guess the attendance on sunday is a lot lower now than what it was like 5 or 6 months ago, and they´re trying to get enough people to consistently come so they can actually build a church, so i want to help with that too. we did have a baptism, but it seems like we need to help out with some less active people a lot too. i don´t know, it´s tough. there´s just so much to do and not enough time to do it! i like this area, the members are pretty cool, but it´s tough, they´re kinda "flojos" haha, they just don´t want to work a lot. oh well, hopefully this week we can actually find some positive people and have some success. not that it´s anything i´ve done, but my district is doing super well. i think they have like 12 baptismal dates between the 2 companionships. not that every person that has a fecha gets baptized, but they´re working and doing well, so that´s good at least :)
and yeah the baptism we had went pretty well. it´s tough though cause our little "chapel" or warehouse doesn´t have a baptismal font so we had to go to another church to do it, which means that none of our members showed up, only the second counselor. but it all went well. there was one other baptism from another area, and it was a pretty good service i thought. baptisms always just make all the work you did worth it, or all they things you put up with. he´s a cool kid and already has a good testimony and all his friends are members too, so he should stay active. but yeah like i said i kinda want to work a little more with the less actives right now just to try and help out the attendance.
but, i think that more or less sums it up. really not exciting, and we´ll just be talking in a week anyway so if there´s anything else i´ll just tell you there haha. good luck with the babies, i hope everything is good with them. and i hope this week goes well, and then we´ll talk to you soon!
much love,
elder paskett
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