Alrighty Fam - This week was fantastic. Full of stormy
weather and good times in Santa Fe. Every week I just get reminded of how sick
nasty my Fam is straight killing it in the Texas.
It was super awesome to see some Gen Con, and I have been
doing the calculations, and at this rate, I only have 3 conferences left in the
mission, because get this, there is 2 conferences in 1 year. Counting down the
conferences. General conference was super awesome. It’s like Christmas. We went to the stake center in Santa Fe,
which is like 2 hours away… so 2 hour nap, sweet. I thought I was going to have
to watch it in Spanish, but I found a bunch of Gringos with the office
missionaries watching it in English. So… I got some stuff out of conference. I had
the nuttiest headache at the end, because I was staring a computer screen for
10 hour straight (we watched the “world report" in between the conferences).
I thought this was a fantastic conference. A lot of great
testimonies. And President Eyring starts off the conference fantastically with
his testimony. I love it when he talks, because I feel the spirit every time.
There was a ton of talks on adversity, which I thought was awesome. A lot of
people seem to think that God does not care about them, because they are having
some rough times. Well that’s some crap, because I don’t see anywhere in the Bible
that says… life’s completely a wonderfully good time. Those were some serious
answers for a lot of or less-active members who don’t come because of stuff
like that.
We actually got to go to Santa Fe twice this week, because earlier in the week we had a
conference where Elder Giovanni came from the Seventy. He’s from Argentina, and
I didn’t think that, so when his wife started talking to me, I didn’t expect a
thousand Spanish words to come at me like that. It was pretty good … for what I
got out of it… "Missionary work is important."
So I’ve slowly seen my mind change on this mission. Like all
of a sudden, I can understand books and I like to read. So now I want to read
like all the time. Personal study is like the highlight of my day, I read all
about Cain, Who is apparently still cruising around the earth, scaring kids on Halloween
and such.
I have been able to get a little action with my mission president;
I think he does recognize me as a missionary, probably because of my name tag.
Usually I just say “hola presidente.” It’s great.
Other than Santa Fe, Galves is still awesome, and still
crazy. I recently saw a cotton candy truck. What are people doing with all these
ice cream trucks, when you can just work a trailer with a cotton candy machine
on the back? The streets are kind of flooded with all the rain and such. I’m loving
the rain a lot better than the heat.
Everyone is still getting diabetes. Like no joke. I talk to
people all the time about how their brother just got diabetes. My answer to
this is, “you probably should lay off the cookies and Mate.” Everyone is always
eating these bags full of assorted cookies, and drinking Mate, which is like an
herb drink that people load with sugar. So we eat a lot of cookies. It’s a
plus.
I’ve been seeing some stray horses lately. I don’t know if
it would be wrong to ride one, because we don’t have a car. Horses would be way
cool. But I don’t know... the stray horse is like the new stray dog.
We had a funny experience with Donato. He is still kind of
having a tough time with prayer. Like sometimes he doesn’t say Jesus Christ. But
the other day he said, “in the name of my son, my grandchildren, and the holy
ghost. Amen." That was kind of funny. We didn’t know what to say, so we
left it alone for another time. I don’t know where he got that.
So Ernesto, who we talked about last week, skipped town. He’s
been out of a job for a while, and since we met him we’ve been praying for him
to find a new job. So he did. In like a week.
But it was 3 hours away, and we don’t really know where he is, and his
mom doesn’t really know either. Hopefully someday he can find the gospel again.
The picture I sent you last week with the stature; I don’t
really know who that guy is, and no one else really knows either, but it stands
in the middle of a large roundabout, and we can say if it’s the original Galves.
Emma told me about a crazy sick free concert with 21 Pilots
and Kendrick. Lame, missed that by 3 months.
It’s all good … I get to listen to people sing Pink Floyd
all the time. No joke. When people learn that I’m from America, they go right into
Pink Floyd. Funny.
Love you guys. And you are awesome.
p.s. That’s a nice computer.
The Elder Greene
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