What's up squad, I'm alive!! Got the first week in the books and man was it a long one ahaha. I've been assigned to the Durango central mission, which is freaking awesome because Durango is apparantely the zone that everyone wants to be in. In the day time it is amazing and the weather is perfect, but at night I'm pretty much shivering the whole time unless I'm in my bed. Soo you can imagine how much mornings suck here.
Really quick, I'm gonna make a list of things that I would pay 20 pesos to have right now.
- hot water
- Toilet bowl cleaner and air fresheners
- clean water
- washing machines
- a vacuum
- a mirror to shave in
- Ability to speak spanish fluently
- a good attitude
Jk guysss I usually have a good attitude, but it honestly is so crazy seeing how different life here is. I don't know where else to go with this segment of the email, but if you have any of these 8 things, make sure you thank your heavenly father tonight.
Beast mode if you've stumbled your way through this email to here like I have, then I love you very dearly, and you will now be rewarded with some loco stories from this week.
The penthouse
After my 16 hour voyage to get to Mexico, the mission president dropped me and E. Alcala off at a house, where 6 other missionaries were very upset to see us. This house was pretty big for Mexico standards (the Penthouse), but still if you put 8 missionaries in one house anywhere, its going to feel cramped. After a stressful nights rest of sleep and lots of attempted conversations in Spanish, I was hurried over to the mission office. There, I was just supposed to give them my passport info and listen to a quick orientation and then make my way to Durango with my companion, E. Sanchez. However, this turned into a 3 day stay in the mission office. This shouldn't have been so bad, except because they thought it was gonna be a quick visit, they told me to leave my bags at the penthouse. So I ended up not having access to my bags or clothes or razor or toothbrush or pajamas for three days ahaha. Moral of the story is always keep your stuff on you.
The protest
So I ended up going to migration offices in downtown Torreon for a total of 7 hours. During one of these visits, there was a protest with like 30 people that happened outside the mission office. For those of you that didn't know, there was an armed robbery in my mission about three weeks ago and i was crazy. Fortunately, they arrested two people that committed the robbery. Unfortunately, one of the people they arressted isn't even the right person. Sooo instead of blaming it on Mexico's trashy law enforcement, they decided to take it to the Church. Moral of the story, you have good chances of getting away with a robbery in Mexico.
Shoot there's so much I would love to tell you guys, but this email is kind've ridiculously long lol. I've become there very thing I swore to destroy ig. I miss all of you guys tons and tons and your emails are appreciated more than you know. If you wanna hear more stories of Mexico or just to tell me about your life, I'm here for all of you. I love all of you!!
The church is true <3
E. Winegar
What everyone came for ⏬⏬
