so, second week in the field, whatssss goodie!!! hahahaha i shouldnt have even gone to the mtc, the spanish here is so much faster, so so so so so different then what i learned, its almost like im learning a whole new language, again!!! im doing good tho, i like it, i feel like freaking nacho libre when i talk in español, makes my friggen day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so, were working hard, we showed up to a new area and a dead ward, its been really fun to watch it change over these last few weeks, it feels like were performing cpr on the area every day, but for some reason its working, idk why!!!! hahahaha
so, last pday was rad, had a balloon fight with the zone, and had pizza... wtf... i thought papa johns night in the mtc was the last pizza id be eating for 2 years, so yeah i only had like 14 pieces... lowkey pissed when a dominoes car pulled up asaking if we wanted pepporonni or cheese!!!!!!!!!! hahah its all good, this place isnt as backwards as i was expecting, well, yeah it is, but they have dominoes pizza so its definitely a countryon the rise
martes (tuesday) was a fantastic day, we got to teach gabriel tapia, a miracle investigator, we just felt like we should knock on his door, and we did, and yeah, he wants to get some jesus in his life!!!!!!!!!!!! this guy is so prepared for the gospel, its mind blowing, and the best part, all of his family wants the gospeel too, and they all live in the same house, or in the neighborhood, because his brothers, sisters, cousins, and parents, and aunts and uncles own the entire neighborhood, its so tighthahaha his brother is a homie, he lived in newyork for a few years so i talk in him in english a little, his english is super ghetto, but hey mine too, i hail from the freaking ghetto streets of the sojo! hahahhaaha we also did something way tight, we found an english school in our area, and of course i volunteered, and of course we contacted a billion of the students, and last but not least of course i laugh a little bit when they cant pronounce english vowels... they have the strongest mexican accents, i wonder why? hahahha but seriously tho i enjoy the school so much, and they hook it up with something to eat every time we teach too, its dope!!! i gave another blesssing in spanish, yeah im getting better.
wednesday was tight, i had another one of those experiences where the holy ghost is just like, yo, little homie, elder hicks, you should knock on that door. i did, we contacted him, turns out hes a recovering alcaholic, like fresh recovering. he was 3 days sober and having such a hard time and had been praying for some help, yeah, thats when the freaking mormon missionaries showed up!!! so cool, im so grateful for that one, actually going to go visit that homie tonight and preach, yeah im stoked!!!
thursday was good, lots of tender mercies that i know you want to read about but that im too lazy too type in so when i get back in like 2 years or so remind me and ill let you all read the entry for febuary 13th 2014.
friday... hahhaa i totally even forgot about the holidy valentines day until i asked my companion why there was like a bajillion mexicans runing around with roses, dont worry i got a valentines gift, a little bit of the moctezumas revenge.... hahaha dont worry, momma hooked it up fat with anti diarrheal pills, that stuff is the life blood of missionaries in mexicio, i feell so much better now, havnt gone for like a whole 5 hours, i think thats a record ;) hahaha and dont worry, im not as sick as elder maluia, hes in the hospital, pray for him, he needs some help i think.
saturday was a good day, taught a bomb inactive family (and lots of others, always, this is just the highlight) theyre dad just passed and my heart hurts for them so so so bad, im grateful for the plan of salvation and that we were able to bring that message to them, i love love love that family, cant wait to check up on them tommorrow.also had my first experience with drunk mexicans that think they know english, let me tell ya, that was quite the hoot.
late saturday night we got the bomb dropped on us that we were speaking in church, aww yeah, i was so stressed hahaha but i had almost no time to prepare, so i just prayed for some help... and guess what, i got it. I decided to speak on service, and i haad like 3 scriptures to share, and the rest just came to me while i was speaking. my companion said i spoke perfect spanish, and that i spoke with a great accent, ahhhh i am so so so grateful for that one, such a testimony builder right there... it was incredible..
today we went downtown to a mall, for 3 hours it littlerally felt like iwas a citizen of the united states of america living in america again, except everyone was mexican, and every thing was in pesos, oh well, esta bien!!!! loved the burger king, ahhhh nothing like some good old fashion american fast food to make your day!!!
so ive been sucking on the scripture of the week thing, so today were getting back on target, john 13:34-35, read it, learn it, love it!!!
Stay up sojo
Elda Hicks
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