Elder Pugmire in Tuxtla: Cambios!!

Wow this week has been crazy!!

Tuesday: So we had to leave our house and it felt like I was leaving home again. So we headed to the bus station and there were a ton of missionaries there about to leave with me. The bus ride was 7 hours long and kind of boring. We arrived in Tuxtla, I met my new zone leaders, and one of them happens to be Elder Fackrell, my old district leader. I found out that I was going to be in A TRIO, OF AMERICANS. Crazy. So we took a taxi with two pairs of suitcases to our house. Las Lomas is roughly translated to the hill tops. So our area is so hilly, our house is on the steepest road I have ever been on. So yeah. Elder Lambert and Elder Larsen are my companions. Elder Larsen is from Idaho and Elder Lambert is from Logan, Utah. Elder Larsen has a fracture in his cuboid bone in his foot so he had to go home on Thursday, but since Elder Lambert and I were new, he showed us around a bit to the extent he could.

Wednesday: We went to meetings and met our district, three companionships of sisters and us, so a little different. The rest of the day we stayed home because of Elder Larsen’s foot.

Thursday: So Elder Larsen was shipped home because of his foot. SO it was just Elder Lambert and I. Thursday we didn’t do much either until we dropped off Elder Larsen at the Mission office. So we had one hour to work and we got 24 contacts and 3 lessons. We worked really hard.

Friday: Elder Lambert and I are pretty much opening up a new area cause we know nothing about this area. We walked a ton because we couldn’t find anybody’s house, since it’s really hilly it was like climbing up Rosedale 6 or 7 times in one day (a big hill in Gig Harbor). So after this transfer I’m going to have some fine calves. So we were supposed to have Missionary correlation meeting but we got lost. We contacted somebody and it went something like this... "Hello nice to meet you we are the Missionaries , and do you know where our church building is?" so it was little bit funny. But we had a ton of contacts, 58 to be exact.

Saturday: I don’t really remember much from Saturday, but we had this really cool lesson where we were teaching this one lady and She asked us if she could go to church. That is the first time that anybody has asked me that. I think I might cry lol.

Well Sunday we went to the most cramped church building every. The members are super here, they actually want to help us. On the plus side one of the members brings sweat bread for everyone after church to quench my endless hunger.

This week I have been studying in Alma 32 and it is an awesome chapter. Here is verse 16

Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe.

SO follow this scripture and you will be blessed.

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32?lang=eng

Love you All

Elder Pugmire