Finally Here
Octubre 3, 2005
Volume #1, Issue #1
Well, Finally Here!
Got to Carolina last Monday and have been busy ever since. The weather
here is great..off course I haven’t seen the cold winters (around
40-50) and I haven’t seen the steaming hot summers (90-100 w/ lots of
humidity), but it’s perfect right now, around 70. I am serving in the
Cary 3rd branch, which is pretty close to Raleigh. My new comp. Elder
Staleh is from Sandy, UT and has been on a mission for about 10 months
now. The weird part is he actually went into the MTC a couple weeks
after I left! Anyways, I am doing fine and we are having lots of fun
and teaching lots. We also have 2 other missionaries, english speaking
in our apartment, so it makes it hard to speak the language…and man
it is hard understanding people, all I can do is smile and nod my head.
One of the other missionaries is leaving in 5 weeks, and he is
starting to get a little crazy..the other one is kind of wierd…but it
makes for some good entertainment.
Well, we had to get up super early last Monday (3:00 in the morning) so
we could make it to the airport. Somehow my carry-on had a pair of
scissors! So, they had to go through all of my stuff and come to find
out the scissors were in a outside pocket! The ride was cool, we had a
hour layover in Pheonix were I called the house and talked to mom. The
ride to NC was long, about 3 a and half hours, but when I finally saw
North Carolina and all of the trees and lakes, i fell in love. NC is
so beautiful, no wind, no snow, no Utah! Haha, I do kind of miss the
mountains..but that is all. All the people here are super friendly,
especially the Hispanics, they will do anything for you. We have
taught tons of lessons, the hispanics are very receptive to our
message, they will always lesson even if they don’t want to. The few
white people we have came across have always told us within the first
few seconds that they go to another church and aren’t interested. It’s
good to be a spanish speaking missionary!
Anyone see general conference? I really enjoyed Elder Nelson,
Uchtdorf, and Erying’s talks. I didn’t have to watch conference in
SPanish, thank goodness, but it was cool socializing with them. In
between the two sessions, they had a little lunch, supposidly they
always do things like that, they love to party and have fun! Lets
see..what else..I am enjoying the work so far..We haven’t knocked on
too many doors but that ones we have, we have had good success with
them. Elder Stalieh had a baptism a few weeks ago and we have a couple
investigators that are getting pretty close. The success for the
spanish side of the mission is skyrocketing..they’ve already tripled
the amount of baptisms from last year…amazing. Like 3 years ago,
they only had 4 spanish elders, now they have 36 with more coming!
It’s pretty awesome..Hispanos Rock! Well, I better get going
now…wish me luck!