howdy,
first thing first. i am in the city of Tijuana but Tijuana is bigger than the size of Utah county, so they have it divided up into colonials. And my colonials are san fransico, morita, terrazas, terrazas 2, lomas, and aguas caliente. So I am actually on the outskirts of tijuana which means that my sector is probably one of the poorest. But in other words i have a pretty big sector.
A couple of things that happened this week. we had the worst service project in my live, we cut grass with shovels for over two hours, which i got rewarded with a nice sunburn. Another thing, here in Tijuana there are so many Jehovah witnesses, it's crazy. But this week we have continually kept teaching and walking. Two of our investigators we are going to get them married this week so that they can be baptized. The thing about marriage here in Mexico is that it is a huge hassle, so most people don´t do it-civil marriage that is. Most have some crap marriage in a church which doesn't mean anything, but they do it to say that they are "married". We have one city in our mission that will marry anybody on the spot without papers. the only down side is that its about seven hours away. so that's one challenge that we have here in the mission is that people need to be legally married before baptism.
then the second this is the Jehovah witnesses. they spread lies and are all around trouble makers. Just yesterday one sat on the corner of our parking lot at the church and handed out fliers for their church-weird people.
Then the last thing is the poverty. we have one investigator , single mom with six kids under 10. She really has nothing and her kids have not been disciplined in their life. She used to be a crime leader, with kidnapping, and carjacking. then she stopped because she realized that those things were bad. So she got money from prostitution, which she did until we meet her. now she still breast feeds her 15 month old baby because she doesn't have food for her-really sad .
But that's a little bit of my week. things are good here. we are always tired but it good.
Fun fact about our church, it doesn't have benches. They have chairs with the possibility of folding them up, I thought it was weird to have that in the chapel.
then the second this is the Jehovah witnesses. they spread lies and are all around trouble makers. Just yesterday one sat on the corner of our parking lot at the church and handed out fliers for their church-weird people.
Then the last thing is the poverty. we have one investigator , single mom with six kids under 10. She really has nothing and her kids have not been disciplined in their life. She used to be a crime leader, with kidnapping, and carjacking. then she stopped because she realized that those things were bad. So she got money from prostitution, which she did until we meet her. now she still breast feeds her 15 month old baby because she doesn't have food for her-really sad .
But that's a little bit of my week. things are good here. we are always tired but it good.
Fun fact about our church, it doesn't have benches. They have chairs with the possibility of folding them up, I thought it was weird to have that in the chapel.
Now some odds and ends,
fun facts about my companion, he played professional soccer before his mission. His girlfriend is at BYU right now, and he hopes to go there after his mission. but real salt lake(soccer team) plays the team he used to play for this week and next week. Then one last thing because I have gone over my time. There is a Johnson family in our stake that has moved into the stake in the past two years. anyways, their son, Elder Johnson, is my zone leader right now. and he goes home in a couple weeks, the first week in may. Anyways thought you might like to know that and I am over time. No I have not sent any letter out yet, and we only get mail here about once every three weeks or so, so i have not received anything either. But until next week,
and remember,
everybody loves a missionary,
Elder olsen
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