It gives me much joy that everyone is doing good! And that the week went well! I cannot believe that school starts this week and next week for Megan! This is CRAZY!
Cleaning the temple sounds so awesome! It is something I look forward to doing one day! Maybe not encountering a rattlesnake but all of the other things sounded sooo cool and spiritual! :)
So where do I start? Well Tuesday night was a really emotional night! We had our normal ward activity which turned into the Farewell Elder Milton activity that Elder G planned out! Everyone thanked me for my service and surprisingly some of them got really emotional! Which meant I got emotional! Towards the end of the activity the Bishop approached me and gave me a huge hug and thanked me personally for all the work that I had done in Salado! I was incredibly humbled. Well this part was the easy part! The next part is that I visited the A. family and they were really sad and poor M. cried also! But I told him that I would be back soon! I visited the M. family, and the Co. family and all of them expressed their thanks to me! I was super touched! My final visit in Salado was to the Cs Family. Hermana Ca has been like a Mom to me for these past 7 months! So when the time came to say goodbye I extended my hand and she surprised me with a kiss on the cheek and a huge hug! This lady is pretty big so I couldn't escape but she cried and I cried. haha I was such a baby! Well she sent me off with that and made me promise her that she can go to the airport in a year to see me off! So I promised her that she could and told the family I would be back soon!
Wednesday morning I finished packing up and headed to the office! I had the chance to talk to President McM for a little and he told me that I was going to like San Pedro and that it would be really interesting! Haha so with that I took my double-decker bus and traveled for 8 hours to San Pedro! I was greeted by Elder Re. from Peru my new companion and 2 other Elders named Elder P. from Paraguay and Elder Ra. from Peru. Which later I would learn all just finished training in the mission. So with a young District Leader Elder Milton comes a young district! Today I will have the chance to teach my first class to them so we will see how they like it! They all work really hard and we are going to get a long great!
Well San Pedro! It is OLD it is 200 years old! But the church has only been here for 4 years. The unity only has one Holder of the Melchizedek priesthood and we need 5 to be a branch so we are working for that! Also I live in the house where we have our meetings! I feel like a Mexican monk in the monastery. Its so different! Sunday was really different but it was really spiritual! The missionaries are in charge of everything! We are teaching people how to run and to organize the church at the same time looking for new people! So it is great! But the people are really nice here! All speak Spanish and guarani! And there are a bunch of Brazilians! So Portuguese also!
My companion and I are getting along great! Yesterday he admitted to me that I am only the 2nd gringo that he gets a long with so that was an honor but not for our country haha. He is really nice but really timid so we are going to get a lot of work done! Its a little different being the Older Companion and having the cell phone and also talking to 6 missionaries daily but I enjoy it! Its a huge honor and blessing!
So these are the details of the week! And my new area! I hope that you guys can imagine it a little! But I am doing really good! I am healthy and the weather is really hot! But nothing new haha. But thank you for your time to read my letter and I will write you more next week! I love you and pray for you all!
Love,
Elder Milton
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