The Escogidos...Chosen Ones

Hey!

It looks like you guys are having a lot of fun!! I miss the ocean, and cold weather.. and water haha. That sucks to hear about the starfish. They were cool. Thats good you guys are keeping in contact with Mindy still. She said you said you were keeping an eye on her lol.

This week went pretty good! We didn't really have that many new investigators. We had been talking to this one lady who lives in a little neighborhood? idk how to explain it. There is a door to get into their little community. Anyways she could never come to church because i guess her husband wouldn't let her. We don't know why, but we got to talk to a ton of the people inside there and they are all super willing to listen to us! We call people like that the escogidos or chosen ones haha. Apparently Nathan in his mission calls them the elegidos or elected haha. I like ours better :P. But yeah thats like the life! There are so many people that are not ready yet, but when you find that gem in the rocks its so cool. One of them is this family we found that should be getting baptised in like 2 or 3 weeks. They are so escogido and its sick that i get to baptize a family for my first baptisms!

So we just have a branch. And we meet in this sort of shed thingy. Its got like the plaque and everything that a regular church does but its just really small. We have like 40ish people every sunday. Our president was actually born in the church. Most of our branch is this one family. Because of that I think some of the people who are not part of that family don't quite feel as welcome. Its the struggle.

So this wednesday we are having a mission conference here and every zone gets to do this skit about a cat and mice and speaking a different language. The white people have to act and the latinos have to say our parts in english. Its super funny. I get to be the cat.... its awkward hahaha. Super funny though so hopefully i can send a video of it next week. Maybe my pres will send one to our families.

I bought a bag though. Its pretty neet. The other one i had was just too weird hahaha. My comp said it looked like a parachute pack.

So we had a pet toad for like 2 days. The toads here hiss and its super weird and creepy haha. He lived in our bathroom and just chilled there. He kept pooping and so we let him go. That and he was probably gonna die haha.

I totally feel like i am adapting here though. I used to feel all awkward because i didn't know spanish or whatever but i basically understand everyone now and can attempt to speak back. I feel like the stereotipical asian tourist trying to speak english. hahah. Although I have heard that my accent is good. I just need to learn how to say things. They say things so weird here. Like it is not directly translating words from english. I'm learning mexican, not spanish. We will see how Spencer and my buddies will be able to understand me after haha.

Well i love you all and can't wait to see you all again! I can feel the support I have from back home and from heaven as well!

Love
Elder Marrott

P.S. Oh yeah your questions. Well we get like 900 pesos every 15ish days, twice a month. It's actually a lot. We mostly spend it on transportation, but for everything over 500 that we spend a month on transportation we can get caja chica on, or reimbursed.

It actually has only rained like twice!! I came RIGHT after the rainy season, and I guess it didn't rain as much as it was supposed to this season. GLOBAL WARMING :P. jk momma.

So for requests... lets see. a rubix cube. or a fountain pen. or a tie clip that is plain. it can't have like an angel or anything on it. or a pokemon stickerbook, yeah, me and my comp found a mutual interest hahaha.

In the Jungle

Elder Marrott

a cat??