Serving in the Mexico Guadalajara East Mission: Another wonderful week in the mission!

Hey everyone! so this week was pretty normal i would have to say but it was a good one! Although tuesday morning was probably the second biggest disaster thats happened on my mission, considering the first to be that i was left alone in a bus center by my trainer for two hours haha. Anyways our zone leaders decided that they wanted us to have to go all the way to lazaro for the district meeting, so sunday night we called to see what time the bus leaves and they told us 630 in the morning, which is fine because it would put us there right at 930 when the meeting starts, but we called again monday night and they told us 7-730. so we were gonna get there a little late but we would get there. we got to the bus center at 645 that morning just hoping it would get there soon and we could leave. So we waited, and we waited, and we waited some more, and a few buses came and went, and finally at 815 our bus pulled in and we left. we got to the district meeting at 11, after it was over, so, we didnt even have a district meeting. so that was a big disaster and made me kinda mad but i got over it. That same tuesday i was able to do divisions with Elder Menchu. Hes a really cool and a really funny Elder thats for sure. While we were together we were able to do a service project where we just dragged a whole bunch of big long rebar bars across the ground from one house to another about a block away. it was an hour of hard work and man was i sweaty and tired after, it was fun though! Then we ended divisions thursday and we saw a pig get killed haha. we went to search for a less active( the one who kills pigs) and right as we got there he asked our help to kill a pig and we said sure since were down for any type of service haha. The last time we got there the pig was already dead and on the table and we just helped hold it while the other guy cut it up. this time we actually watched them kill it and then helped them lift it on the table, and in the process my companion got his shirt all bloody, dont worry its white now though haha. so that was another fun story. Let me tell you a little bit about just how much the people here dont want us. We got to a house the other day of a few less actives and specifically searching the only one who lives there that actually wants to go to church. anyways right as we got there, their was about 5 people sitting outside just talking, and when they saw us all of them but one bolted for the door and went inside. the one who stayed is the only one that actually goes to church. So that just kindled the fire a bit. Then the weather here is so bipolar that it can go from blazing hot one day to a total torment the next. thursday night it rained harder than ive ever seen in my life and blew harder as well. Ive never heard thunder that loud and ive never seen so much lightning. It was so bad that while i was showering thursday night the lights went out! just my luck right? luckily they came back on a few seconds later haha. And now to finish this long email i would like to end it on a good note, we ate with the golden family were working with that lives in the military base on saturday, and whenever we visit them the dad of the family picks us up in his car outside the gate and after drives us all the way home since we live pretty close. well this time since we still planned on going to san jeronimito after to work we told him just to drop us off at the highway and so thats what he did, but as we were waiting for the bus he flipped back around and told us to get in and that hed take us to San Jeronimito! so that was awesome and definitely a blessing. So yeah that was this week. Pretty interesting. Pretty boring haha. not really i think Ive just gotten so use to all of the weird things down here that they dont seem weird anymore. Well Thats it for this week folks! i hope you all have a good one i love you all so very much! Love Elder Griffin

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