What a weird week, so much has happened and I think I’ve
gotten into the normal routine of a missionary!! I am sad to hear that the Seahawks
lost the super bowl :(, but that doesn’t matter to me right now.
So health wise this week wasn’t the best. I got sick twice.
Once on Tuesday and again Saturday. It sucked having to sleep all day. Before
my mission I would have wanted to sleep all day like I did, but now I just have
the desire to go and teach people. Weird!! They have these things called
Electrolitos drinks which are pretty much a form of concentrated Gatorade. So
the doctor prescribed me to drink 3 liters of those a day!! Yikes! On Tuesday I
got better within the day but on Saturday I was well sick into Sunday. But I’m
much better now. Thank goodness.
So I was informed that the mail here runs about 2 months
late, so it might take a while for letters to get here. Yesterday our District
leader received his Christmas package, and was so excited that it finally
arrived!!
IT IS SO HOT!! I miss the cold, dank, rainy place that I
call home; I have never in my life desired more to have rain than now! LOL If possible,
it should snow here, but that’s not going to happen.
For some reason our water decided to turn off on Friday, so
we have been taking bucket showers. Those are fun.
So my Spanish is slowly getting better. I don’t know why President
George Put me with a white companion, it is very hard not to speak English to
each other, especially me, so it’s just another trial the Lord has given me to
make me work harder and to strengthen me.
Now to the real business. This week we asked 11 people to
baptism, only one agreed to get baptized, yay!! I am so happy she made that
choice. Our favorite investigators that have been progressing so much, we asked
them to be baptized, and they wanted some time to think about it. I know they
are ready to get baptized. Their son, Romeito strait up asked his parents if I
could baptize him. They kind of ignored him at that moment. LOL. Milrenia the
wife says she really wants to believe our church but her husband has some
doubts, but I know they are ready.
We had a baptism this week!!! It was the baptism of Hancey,
a ten year old girl. It was so exciting. I gave the talk on the Gift of the
Holy Ghost, and it was very spiritual, even though it was very slow Spanish. My
companion baptized her and she was sooo happy.
One of the priests accompanied us yesterday, Hermano Hugo,
he is very helpful in me learning Spanish, and we get along very well, he loves
saying puppies in English because he can’t pronounce the U in puppies so its
popeies, LOL. My last name is also very hard to pronounce, people say Puugmiereh
haha, so every time my companion and I meet a new person he asks them to say my
name, it’s pretty funny.
The Lord has blessed our companionship, with so many miracles,
just because we work so hard and are so obedient. He is so by the book,
sometimes it annoys me but it is for the better since I’m so chill at times.
"I will go and do the things the Lord has commanded of
me"(1 Nephi 3:7) Be obedient and the Lord will bless you, listen to your
parents and leaders cause they only want what’s best for you!!
Miss you all, miss Washington (I have a Washington apples
sticker on the back of my name tag from an apple I had in the MTC) miss the
Rain!
Love,
Elder Pugmire
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| Pancakes I made this morning |
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| Hancey and her family! |
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