HI HI family/ mom and dad
So I was just going to write one letter but also answer to
both your questions just because it’s like work to type this stuff. I’ll have
to send you an email next Monday right off the bat so we can talk for a little.
Sorry I didn’t call you guys. :( I really
did want to, but when I got to the airport at 5:30 I didn’t want to fight my
way to a phone only to have to call you and talk to you half drugged up from no
sleep, so I was planning on calling you in Atlanta, only there’s no payphones
in the Atlanta airport. I asked like the head question place and they told me
they took all of them out. So that’s why I never called you. Um to start off I'll
just start from the landing. So we met my mission president right down the
stairs when you’re leaving the airport. He’s like 6'6, a big guy. We shook
hands and were then like caged outside so none of us would get lost. He seems
like a nice guy but he comes off hard. We all went over to his house to eat and
have interviews. During the interview he was like, "So basically I’m going to
guess none of you know how to work and this mission is super hard so, ya your
screwed unless you learn to work hard." For like the next hour I was like super
worked up about it. I don’t know why, I was like “Really I just spent 2 weeks
getting killed in the MTC” and I get this guy telling me I’m going to have to
learn how to work and not think of myself. I just about lost it so I went up to
him afterwards and was like. Hey could you not say like we’re all 10 years old
and can't wipe our own butts.... thanks I’m Elder Aldana. It was alright, I mean
like I see now what he was trying to do, but ya I was like you just can’t tell
people they suck at working and then go on for an hour about how we need to
learn how to work. I think that he’s a good guy but he’s like a millionaire. I guess he made the Cheetos guy. The character and stuff so, ya he just like runs
everything like a business so, I don’t know. I just came up and told him how I felt and I think we’re good now. But ya he’s a good guy just I don’t know
hahah I want to like him I just don’t agree with some of his ideas. I hope it
grows on me because I could care less about his work horse picture telling me I
need to work hard for stuff to happen.
As far as my
companion I love him. We’re like super close after 5 days, he’s not really the
type of guy that I would hang out with. He was a starting quarterback for the
football team and the starting pointgard for the basketball team. So after he
saw me and was like. WAIT your 6'4 and don’t play basketball....... little does
he know that I’m a HUGE nerd :) were having a lot of fun down here. We're both
kind of sick so the work is slow, but we're working. I get us up at 6:30 every
morning and flip on the light so that he won’t go back to sleep for 5 mins. My
first day in our dump of a house place I had canned beef stew for breakfast. It
was not the best but hey. We didn’t have any food and my companion wasn’t going
to help haha. We learn fast about each other. He doesn’t like to eat with me
for some reason but I don’t think it’s because of me. He just doesn’t like to
eat at the table.
As for the people
here, they’re the best; I love everyone that I get to see here. First off
everyone is black. Just ya 9/10 are black and its way good. Black people are
sooooo good. The black people listen to you. When you knock they will say 1 of 2 things. 1
is "WHO IS" you then yell back through the door "ITS THE
MISSONARYS" they will then yell back "WHO" and then you yell
even louder "MISSIONARYS" by then you will be coming to their door. You
have to do this for about 4/5 doors. It’s alright haha it makes me so happy every
time. If they don’t yell "WHO IS" they yell "COME IN" so
you super awkwardly walk into their house and start saying "Hey yall we’re
the missionary’s". Most people here have some sort of religion but
everyone takes the time to listen to you, or says they will. Normally you have
to say can we come back another time and they will say sure and you come back
the next day. So it’s alright only you never get to have lessons with people. But
they’re all so good. There are a few nice white people, we have this one lady
named R. She reminds me so much of grandma. She LOVES the missionary’s. She’s
Catholic and she feeds us food. She’s going to heaven or we’re not because she’s
so good. Also we met this lady named J while tracking last night. She came in and was like MISSIONARYS how are you. She’s Baptist? But she also loves us we
talked to her for about 10 minutes about Jesus and how we should all try and be
like him.
Um our house is
like SUPPER ghetto. It’s like SUPER brown and moldy. When I first walked in I saw
3 cockroaches crawl under our oven I almost just walked back to the car and
slept there. Haha it’s such a joke the bathroom is a joke the shower is like 5 feet
tall so I have to duck down just to get under the shower. We also had no food. And
the little food we did have was just thrown into the cupboards. We just cleaned
for like 5 hours. I told my companion we’re cleaning this up today or he’s
sleeping with the cockroaches in the kitchen. We’re in a duplex. Our neighbor is the Baptist preacher. They
have 3 little girls. I told my companion that we should go listen to him this Sunday
and then next time we speak invite him to come to our church. I think it’s a
good idea. But were good friends. We respect each other religion and just like each
other as people.
I think that’s about everything I’ll send some
pictures. Oooooo ya I almost forgot. So our 3 hours in church, we talked about
the Book of Mormon play........ ya the play..... I guess it’s coming to Alabama
and so they had an hour in church to just bash on the makers of it and like say
how bad it is and that it makes fun of Jesus and all religions. The whole hour
I was like REALLY...... we’re talking about this in church. Come on it’s a play,
like who cares if people want to see it, let them and if they have questions
about the BOM great the plays doing good. Anyway they were not too happy about
it, haha and told everyone that if they were asked to say anything about it
from a reporter or something that were not supposed to say anything for the
church..... Was a great 3rd hour for our brand new investigator coming to
church for the first time ever.....
The work here is
slow. We have to spend a lot of time with the kids before we can even see the parents.
But it’s alright; Alabama is great I love it down here.
Loves your Elder Aldana/Elder Tall/ Elder slimshady
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