August 7, 2013
so i will be back on here at 10 but hey i guess i really really need
a sleeping bag. i will tell you the story later.but i really need one.So later on that same day.....
Well final Pday in the MTC is here. to mourn
our loss we are all wearing black ties to class tonight:) also we are
making a music video today. hahaha you know the song in holes, dig it up
up oh dig it. something like that. well we have been singing that all
week so today we have parts we are assigned to rap and were going to do
it.... or nap. i am kinda torn at the moment. hahaha
Ok sooo many funny things have happened this week. so i have a new
calling. i am in charge of sacrament, setting up, finding people to
bless and pass, stuff like that. well i blessed cuase the people i had
assigned, along with half my district, got sick and couldnt do it. so me
and Clarke got to which was SOOOO stressful. like i have never been
more nervous for a prayer. cause not only am i doing it in front of
fourty people my age, its in a language that i cant read!!! i am
terrible and reading in spanish, i gotta work on it. well i did it my
first try all went well, passed, whatever. well we sat back down in the
congregation for fast and testimony meeting to start and the new first
couselor was giving his. well my comp's stomach literally made the sound
of a dying whale that had access to a mega phone. hahaha people from
four rows up turned around!!!! i lost it. it was so funny.
oh so Scott. look up Brother Claybaugh at your institute
building at UVU. he is my branch president and way cool. he teaches
there so yeah if you had him or know him, have mom dear elder it to me
before sunday:)
anyway. we have also had some mini miracles this past week too.
so like our first week or second, coulda been yesterday, all the days
are one here, but we had funeral potatoes and chicken or something and i
wanted funeral potatoes and ham one more time before i left. so i said a
prayer, i pray for anything now, you will see in a second, but i asked
for that meal one time before i left and we totally got it this week. i
was so pumped. i ate like three plates. it was amazing.
So talking about praying for anything... my room mate who is
from SF, Elder Patey, he snores like nobodys business. and like Monday or Sunday
night it was just ridiculous. like whole other level. so i was saying
my prayers when he really got into the groove, and at the front i just
put in, help patey stop snoring so i can go to bed here in a second.
cause i hadnt slept well lately and really needed it. so im still
praying, elder benson, my other buddy, whispers to see if i can hear
Patey. haha dumb question cause it sounds like im in bed with the kid.
but i ignored it the first time cause. praying right? so he asks again
and i just prayed saying, ok one sec, said amen and started talking to
benson for a little bit. and Elder Patey kept getting worse and worse
and finally i was like ok thats it. and you know how you can do that
loud whisper thing. yeah i did that and just said Patey!! Shut up!!! and
i kid you not. the second i said that.... silence. like not another
peep. it was so surprising we all just started laughing so hard!!!!! (in
the MTC everything is twice as funny) but we talked for a sec and
turned out like all of us had prayed for it hahahaha funny huh. shows
that no matter how dumb it is He will always be there to help us out.
yeah it was really funny.
my favorite person in the world now, my teacher, Hermano
Miller, yesterday the entire class was gone besides like five of us, so
there was no point to teach something. but he just told us a couple
stories from his mission. and i just wrote this in my journal during
laundry and wont lie... didnt sound that funny in english, especially
written down by me who, like the nephites, is weak in writing;) haha oh
well i got time, so here goes.
He served in the exact mission my companion is
going to and my comp always talks about how amazing it is and how much
better his will be cause its Chile Concepcion. haha well then we heard
this story. :D
So Hermano Miller traveled down there with a huge group, like
25 elders. so they just got off the plane and these kids and guys run
up and tell them they will take their luggage and get them where they
need to be. so, not knowing where they had to go, they let em. so these
people lead em through the airport, get em to this office they needed to
be at and turned around like, well? youre gonna pay us right? so
everyone gave em like 2$ which seemed fair. well the kids were like
what!? after all we just did thats all you got? well that went on and
on. and by the time they were done these kids had made like 400
BUCKS!!!! haha sign me up coach. :) so they left, met the president, got
companions and headed out. well he had to take a six hour bus ride to
his area first with all his luggage and junk. well they finally get
there at midnight.
in the downtown area, super sketchy, all that fun stuff. and turns out
they still had to walk another HOUR just to get home. hahaha so off they
went pulling his giant bags through the streets. the streets were
covered in gargabe. they were weaving around people sleeping. others had
fires going, and then there was a pack of wild dogs. like thirty dogs
that were stalking them the whole way!! so they were running away from
dogs and the retractable handle on his bag, snapped. first day in the
field.so now hes gotta carry fifty pounds of stuff while trying not to
die, at midnight,
in Chile. finally stuff calmed down, the dogs ran off and all he wanted
to do was go to sleep. so they get home and from the outside he was
like, sweet looks good, all is well. and then we walked inside... the
floor was all dirt, had a tiny kitchen in the back and bunk beds in the
room. he was like you know what? i dont even care, i will think about
this tomorrow
i just wanna go to sleep. he walked over to the bed and the pillow was
like this green-yellow color and was all lumpy and weird, he told us
like "i dont even know how to explain" he just got gloves and threw it
outside. and the bed, same thing just weirdly colored and lumpy. ha but
he had his sleeping bag so who cares... which mom... he said get it
cause that will save you. so.. if you could wave your wand and have that
show up.. thatd be cool:) but its cool if not. ill be fine. anyway.
then he told us about the shower. the whole thing was straight cement.
about the size of my downstairs one but the "drain" haha someone had
just poked a hole in the cement for it to drain and that was it. so the
longer you showered the more dirt and other stuff came up from the
ground right under it:) haha oh my it was so funny. and Clarke's face
the whole time was just the picture of horrified. hes been pretty well
off his whole life and hearing that compared to the mental image he had
built up just freaked him out. hahaha oh soo funny!!
Well thats about all i got this week. our investigator
totally has a baptismal date set... even though its our teacher, still
counts;) but everything is going great. getting excited to leave though.
I will let you know when i get my reassignment as soon as i can.
love all of you.
Elder Whitaker
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