Almost a perfect Christmas

As the title states, Christmas here in Mexico was almost perfect. Everything last Monday was going good until we got back to the apartment and found out that we had no water. We tried to get the supers help, but she was too busy with her family. We went that whole night and the next morning without any water. We finally got the supers help in the morning before we left the house and it turns out all we had to do was flip a breaker switch. 

We lost two of our golden investigators this week. The first one moved houses and didn't tell us. When we went to meet with her, we looked in the window and saw the house was completely empty (picture). We decided to ask the neighbors to see if they knew where she went. We found her new house after some searching, but she wont answer the door or our calls. The other stopped answering our calls and meeting with us. We are not sure, but we think the Jehovas Witnesses have gotten to them.

We had intercambios this week and everything was good with those. Nothing too exciting, but we found a scorpion just hanging out on the floor in the house of my intercambio.

We have 13 new investigators this week and a couple of them are of gold. However, that isn't good enough for our district leader. He wants us doing 20 contacts a day, which is hard when we have so many investigators. We want to focus on the investigators we have that are progressing because there's no point in finding new investigators if there is never time to teach them. I also got chewed out by the district leader when he watched our weekly planning. Apparently I was supposed to be doing more, but how was I supposed to know when my trainer has done the same thing every week and I just follow what he does? I don't know these are questions one day ill get the answer to.

I've made it through my first transfer and my companion and I didn't get changed. However, there were some shake ups in our district. One of the other missionaries that was training got transferred to a different area and another that was training got a new trainer, so crazy stuff happening here.

I had my first real battle with the food here this week. Friday morning I was sick all morning and spent a lot of time in the bathroom. I was finally feeling better Sunday, when we got the grossest shrimp soup I have ever had. The shrimp were literally swimming (only a slight exaggeration). Then of course we went back to the same house today and had the exact same soup except this time it had been left out for a night and was cold. Wish me luck.

Adios

Elder Warburton