Semana 43: Pollo York

Que pedo chayotes.

Welp we had transfers this last week and my old companion left to Martinez de la Torre on Tuesday. My new companion, Elder Tun, is such a baller.  A little strange sometimes, but a baller. He's been out for 14 months and is from Mexicali.

To start off, this week was very successful, we found a lot of new people to teach and are helping others get prepared for baptism! The days have been just crazy over here in Petromex, but I am glad that I have the chance to stay for another transfer.

My companion had a rough few days adjusting because his previous companion was what we like to call "muerto" (dead), so they didn't do anything all transfer. The first full day working we got back to the house at 9:30pm and my companion flopped on the floor and fell asleep, he didn't even make it to the bed hahaha! He's getting the hang of it now.

Elder Tun is a character, very funny guy, but his interests are complete polar opposites from mine. He loves anime and Minecraft so much and he tells me he loves to chat with Chinese anime people on Messenger. I don't even know what that means, someone plz explain.

Poza York

We were at one of our investigators houses and there was this random chicken that kept breaking and entering their home and it was driving the lady nuts. She caught the chicken, threw it in the street, and it came back. She told us she will only be baptized if we took the chicken with us when we left (joke). We took the chicken anyways and decided it was gonna be our new pet! We named him Pollo-York because we are in Poza York. We snuck our new pet past the members we live with and put it in the backyard. We went inside to cool off and came back 10 minutes later and this freaking chicken was standing on the edge of the roof staring 30 feet down to the neighbors backyard. My companion and I freaked out and yelled at the chicken "DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT!". Well, of course, he did it. The chicken yeeted himself off the balcony, face-planted on the ground and ran away. The members we live with heard us yelling and so they ran outside to see what was happening and my companion shouted "OUR PET CHICKEN ESCAPED AFTER 10 MINUTES" and the members shouted "You brought a CHICKEN into our house?!?" It was this huge fiasco and so funny.

Pollo York before he escaped

The bishopric has this piece of paper that I like to call "the shut up card" since when they place it on the pulpit when someone is speaking, it means that they've talked for too long and they need to wrap it up.  

My companion and I were talking about something my old mission president, President Vest, said about how in the premortal existence, we chose to come to earth during this time with the pandemic  and we chose what our life circumstances would be like. My companion sat there for a minute and then finally said, "Why on EARTH did I choose to come to a third world country, bro I could be white and living in Utah with a G-wagonnnn".  That made me laugh.

Hna Camen y Nadia

I learned how to conjugate the word "pedo" into many different phrases so that basically means I am fluent hahaha. Anyone learning Spanish who wants to sound like a native, hmu I've learned way too much slang this past week.

That is all for this week! Love you all! 

Elder Scown