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| A birthday selfie |
Monday we got home after our pday. We had played soccer and I sweat like a ton. But when we got home I realized I had two cell phones and was like crap, whose cell phone did I take?? Turns out I took the zls cell phone with me and ours. So we had to go back to the city of sonsonate, a 10 min bus ride and find them and give it back to them. My comp was soooooo mad with me, even though he said nothing, I could just tell, but I learn to just let it go. Don’t need to worry about things that aren't requiring worry.
Saydi your letter came and I read it in the photo printing shop and I just wept. You promised at the end that one day I would run, that I wouldn't have to be carried by Christ. Everyday I look back and see that I am being carried by Christ and there are only one set of footprints in the sand, and right now I am being carried, but at the prospect of me running one day was and has been far beyond even my thoughts. I pondered on those words of your letter again and while at a less active members house, relief was found in that letter. Thank you so much. I have read it so many times. One day I will run, and will not need to be carried.
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| Complete exhaustion |
On Wednesday during comp study I had a 20 minute discussion with my comp about the way and method of teaching. So it started because evidently I did something wrong. . . . . . I then talked with patience and did not raise my voice, but I firmly stated my point of view and told him how I thought we could teach but with the language barrier and everything it was difficult. At the end he told me this. Elder I have experience in the mission and I have time that I have learned these things and you don’t have time in the mission so you have a lot to learn. I am trying.
On Thursday we had cake at zone conference for Elder B's birthday and that night we had a futbol game against the young men of the sonsonate ward. We got permission to go play soccer at the estaca that night at 7. It was legit. So fun. You know how much I love sports. Any sport. I loved it. It was incredible. I had sweated so much that I literally wrang my shirt out about a cup or more of sweat, I am not even kidding. It drenched through my absorbent garments tool. It was insane. I was drenched. But so fun. Then we couldn’t catch a bus home because they had stopped coming so we had to walk the streets of el salvador home at 9:00 at night from the stake center in the city and walked for 30 mins to get home. That I will never forget!
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| Exchanges with Elder Hallman in our Mosquito Nets |
So far on the mission I have eaten 162 pupusas!
Saturday was tough just getting slammed back with my companion. It was a robot of a day. Our numbers were super high, but that is because they were treated like numbers, not people. High numbers doesn't mean success if they are only numbers. It felt like such a long day that day.
Sunday we had 7 investigators at church. Another family kinda just showed up. We have two families who are in the process of being married but are really poor so it takes a long time. R came to church again and her little brother! She accepted a baptismal date for the 22 of November so that is exciting!!!!!!! I got a sponge cake last night from the people who we eat dinner with every other week. Like a big cake, but it is cinnamon and just the best thing ever so I will eat a lot of it tonight with my comp! And the pupusa ladies that we always buy from are going to make me a giant pupusa if we go, but last night I told my comp that I wanted to go and he said that I have to remind him to go, soooo I will drag him with me tonight at 8 o'clock to actually sit down for once and use our designated hour for dinner!!
Everytime I take a shower I do a cockroach and spider check before! There are ants everywhere!!! The streets are a literal garbage can, because men come and rake the garbage out of the gutter the next morning. It is tempting and hard to not just throw your trash there, but I always keep it! And Saydi, they have bon o bon!!!!!! It is hot hot hot and their are supposed to be November winds here so we’ll see about that.
This is my last full week with the comp! For some reason God needs me here. I don’t know why and I have goals to do at least 2 things of service for my comp everyday. I don’t expect my comp to say happy birthday but that is okay. The mission is not for me anyways. You really come to understand your blessings. Those times when you are overflowed with joy and gratitude towards God for blessing you so much even while in the midst of trial. My Spanish is better and I can talk and understand pretty much everybody. The mission is not what I expected it to be.
My joints in my hands and wrist still hurt from chickengunya but ya know, life is never meant to be easy!! I love you all! Hastal luego till next week. Your letters are appreciated and your prayers are felt. I feel angels everyday bearing me up. I am wearing the green and black tie that Harry and Jack had on their missions. I get to play the uke every pday because our zl has one. He is awesome. I can’t wait for the day that I can run on my own. 10 more days. Lets do this.
Your Little brother, older brother, uncle, cousin nephew and son,
Elder Jwizzle Tipizzle Ostler
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