Hello everyone from Texas! How're you all doing? I hope that everyone's doing fantastic, cause I am, and it was so good to hear from so many people this week! Monday will be the p-day in the field, so that'll give you a kinda gauge as to when to send emails.
Just to let you know, I've got a ton to talk about and not all that much time to do it, so sorry if I don't go into any detail on anything, ramble, or if my spelling is terrible. I'm doing my best to adjust back to an English keyboard. Not all that different, but the symbols like ' - ! @ are in a different place. So yeah!
Last days at the CCM were awesome! We got emails from just about everyone, spent until midnight packing, and had to get up at four in the morning to make our bus! Such a party! I came with Elders Powell, Madsen, and Cannel, and Hermanas Tait and Lamprecht who were ALL in my district at the CCM! Crazy long bus ride followed by crazy long time on the planes. Also I tried to call at the airport, but couldn't figure out how to get the pay phones to make an international call. Then in Houston, Elders Cannel and Madsen almost missed our flight because they were trying to call home. So sorry I wasn't able to do that! No time whatsoever!
We stayed with the APs for the first night. They told us that we were going to do basically an initiation, which consisted of eating Chile de Monde. Now, they told us that we didn't have to do it if we didn't want to, because we all have agency and they didn't want to be held accountable for us if something went terribly wrong in our mouths. But they also said that they'd all done it, and as any true male knows, that's the biggest kind of challenge there is! So we did it. Don't do it unless you enjoy your mouth being on fire for half an hour. Nothing we did helped! Apparently Chile de Monde is the third hottest pepper in the world. And, just as a challenge for anyone out there who sees them at the grocery store, I downed four of them. :)
My companion is Elder Padron. He was born in California, but has lived in Mexico most of his life. So even though I'm in a mostly English area, I'll speak and practice a lot of Spanish with him. We try to speak it for six hours a day, unless we're teaching someone. Which we basically never are. Cause we are part of opening a new area! Well, I guess it's an old area, but it was combined with another part for about three months. So the records here aren't the greatest, we've got six active member households in our area, and a ton of inactive. We want to meet all the active and inactive members soon, but it'll take a while, cause we're on bikes, and the area's pretty big. We cover about half of a smallish town called Alice, in the Sinton Zone. And even though we're trying to meet everyone, we usually end up stopping and talking to people in the streets and trying to find new investigators. We actually have two people we could call investigators right now! Their names are Ricardo and Cindy. They live together, but aren't married. Hopefully we'll be able to teach them well!
Running short on time, so that's probably all I'll be able to say. Other than that President Maluenda is super smart! We had interviews with him yesterday, and I had a question. We were almost out of time, and stake conference was starting soon, so he just pulled about six sections out of Doctrine and Covenants and told me to study them. Just off the top of his head! Took him like five seconds to think of it. Also, he really knows how to listen to the spirit. We know that he is when he just stops talking, looks at the ceiling for a few seconds, then asks you something that blows your mind! He's awesome!
That's really all I got time for. Hopefully more next week. Don't have the address on me now, but I sent out some letters today to Mom and Dad. So I need you to put the address on the blog when you get them, Mom. Thanks! I love all you guys who take the time out of your day to read this!
Until next week!
-Elder Chamberlain
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