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Semana 62: Day of the Drunks

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Just so you are prepared, this email is going to be filled with interactions that I had with drunk men in my new area. Sorry for not sending y'all an email last week! I know you were all looking forward to it... lol psych!  Well I got transferred to my new area and I've been here for a week and a half now. Transfers happened on Tuesday but I didn't even get to my area until Thursday because I had to stay back for Mission Leadership Council on Wednesday. We learned a lot about what was going to happen this upcoming transfer with the Zone Leaders now separated in 2 different areas. Later in the afternoon, we all hopped on our bus and went to Papantla. We arrived at 9:30pm and there were not any taxis available to get me to my area so I spent the night in Papantla. Thursday morning my companion and I woke up and we went over to our area. It is about 40 minutes away from Papantla. Elder Armendariz There is absolutely nothing in Agua Dulce. It is a small town of 8,000 people and

Semana 60: Almost Stabbed

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There's this crazy, drunk homeless guy that lives pretty close to our house. He always cusses me out whenever we pass by him. This week we were walking down the street and we saw him from a distance. He looked stranger than normal. We had no choice but to walk in the direction where he was standing. As we passed by him, he started following me about three feet behind. I got really uncomfortable and looked back. In his left hand he was carrying a cigarette in the other hand, he had a knife. I freaked out and started walking faster. He started walking faster. I started to take my bag off so I could smack him because I was not about to get stabbed. Thank heavens a group of people walked past us from the other direction and caused a stir up so I was able to get far enough away from him. My Roommate I finally got my second dose for the Covid vaccine. We are praying that soon enough the Covid restrictions will start to lower a bit and we can finally knock doors and not use face masks. Th

Semana 59: The Deep Sleep

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Viejos Lobos Rascuachos Pachones I hope you all had a phenomenal week! Last Pday we went to a public park and had a picnic with the zone, later we found some teenagers in the park and they invited us to play soccer with them. It was pretty fun, we topped off the day with some crazy games of spikeball.  La Zonaaa We went on exchanges with my boy Elder Jimenez. He is finishing his training right now and is such a cool guy. I flame him for being a Chilango (person from Mexico City) all the time, he flames me back for being white. I think I have the upper hand though Chilangos have the weirdest accents on earth. Their investigator that was on date practically killed herself in regards to her not wanting to progress because she's Catholic. We decided to stop by her house. We explained literally every. single. apostate. thing. the Catholics do and why we do it differently. She realized pretty quickly that we knew a lot more about her own church than she did. By the end of the lesson I fe