I'm the Captain Now

Like the subject says. I am now the captain of this area. Let's just say its been a pretty stressful week. I'm now in charge of getting us everywhere and planning everything because my new comp doesn't know the area. Luckily everything has gone pretty good.

We have food with different members everyday and luckily we only got lost on Wednesday. I received a phone call from the Hermano we were going to eat with and I didn't totally understand what he said, but I could tell he was mad because he yelled at me for a good while over the phone. We did eventually get to his house.

I didn't come as prepared to write this email as I usually do, so I don't really remember a whole lot that happened this week. It went by pretty slow and not much happened. As of today we have 10 investigators with baptism dates, but only one has attended the church, so we are going to be working really hard this week to get our investigators to come to church.

We spent a good amount of time trying to track down old investigators this week, but it's pretty hard to find the houses when none of them have numbers. We had success with a couple, but most we couldn't find and others still aren't interested. 

My new comp and I get along well. He is from the same area as my trainer was, Tamolipas (I think that's how you spell it). He plays the guitar and he likes to buy a lot of food. The only problem is he spent all of his money in his last area, so now I like to buy a lot of food. He's pretty funny and he's really direct with our investigators which is mostly a good thing. He likes to "planch" (mission language for chew out with love) ward members when they are out of line, so I can't wait until he lets loose on our ward mission leader.

Today our district leader showed up to our area with a washing machine. I haven't gotten to try it out yet, but I think it will be better than washing by hand.

Also this week there was an earthquake somewhere in Mexico. I was trapped under a building for a couple of days, but everything is alright now. The truth is we didn't even feel the earthquake because we were in a bus and didn't know what was going on until we talked to an investigator. 

Sorry for the short email and lack of pictures. My brain has been all over the place this whole week. Next week i'll be more organized.