Hello y’all,
What a crazy week!! We had a day and a half of service and a
day trip to the ruins of Izapa.
A bit on the culture:
There is no cultural diversity down here; the only diversity
is from us missionaries. Besides us Todos los personas son Mexicano.( All of
the people are Mexican) There is a virus going around called Chinkungunya, its
transmitted by mosquitos and when you get it you get a fever and then a rash
and it hurts to move because your joints lock up. I don’t have it but a lot of
the Mexicans do. Americans are immune to it. So that’s rad!!
Meal of the Week: Again the winner goes to Hermana Tita.
This week she made us the best quesadilla, with pork and cheese and some sauce.
Soooo gooood!! She loves to make us food. It’s great. I thought I would be
eating less down here but I am fuller every day than in the CCM which is weird.
Oh and I finally had beans and rice together.
This week we had three days that were not normal.
The first was a kind of trip day. The mission president came
down with the assistants. We got to wear a t-shirt and shorts. YES!!! So both
zones from Tapachula got on one bus, that’s like 60 people! First we went to the
Ruins of Izapa. Apparently these ruins are about 4000 years old, from the time
when the Jaredites were in the Americas (a group of people in the Book of Mormon).
They were really cool and had something to do with the alignment of the stars.
It was really sunny this day and so everybody was trying to stay in the shade.
They had some rocks with carvings on them but you really can’t see the
carvings. We then went to another ruins sight, where they had a bunch of rocks
with carvings on them and a big jaguar head. One of their rocks has the carving
of Lehi’s dream on it , with the tree of life, it is really hard to see but that
is true evidence right there that the Nephites and Laminites were in the
Americas.
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| Ruins of IZapa |
After this we went and played Futbol as both zones. Apparently
I am not so bad at soccer and played a lot. Elder Ibarra one of the assistants,
is really good at soccer. He played two years of professional soccer in Peru,
but decided to go on his mission instead. He is also chucked.
We then ordered like 30 boxes of dominos for every one and
watched Conozca a Los Mormones (Meet the Mormons) in Spanish. It comes out in
theaters down here on the 27th of February. It was really cool to watch it in Spanish
though.
On Friday we had our first real opportunity to serve down
here. So our whole zone came down and helped clean up the local park. The
hermanas picked up trash while us elders got to hack weeds out of the ground
with machetes (not very effective) but anyways, that took a few hours and a few
chunks of my skin. But it was well worth it.
Saturday
We were told we were going to be building a roof in Morelos.
About 20 minutes outside of Tapachula. 20 of us elders piled into the back of a
truck and we went over there. We got there and found out that we would be
working with concrete. YAY. This day turned out to be the hardest day of work
ever!! We had a concrete mixer but we had to fill buckets of concrete then haul
them up a make shift ladder and then pour the concrete on the roof. It took a
good 6 hours. We used just about all the concrete. The combination of the hot
sun and heavy concrete made it very grueling work. Near hour 5 I threw up from exhaustion.
I was also completely covered in concrete and pretty sure I had heat exhaustion.
The next day I was so sore, it hurt to move. I did not want to go out and
tract. But I found that as I worked and taught lessons I found energy I didn’t
know I had.
When we give our all and serve our god, the Lord will give
us energy that we did not know we had. He will make the burden a feel like it
is nothing at all. Like in Mosiah 24:10-17 where the Lord takes the burden from
the Nephites who were in bondage. Turn to the Lord and he will give you everything
you need.
Love you all,
Elder Pugmire
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