September 9, 2014
Tlalnepantla
is siiiick
So
word up everyone, sorry I suck at writing lately. I guess thats kind of just
what happens when you have 13 months in the mission, you forget that you have
family and stuff haha jk jk. So this new area is soo sick we have Wal-Mart,
Costco, and Sams club, and I have already spent my whole months worth of money
at Costco and Wal-Mart. But, its okay cause I bought beef jerky and krustez
pancake batter, so I am pretty much set. But I had a super sick experience this
week that I want to share.
So this week I just
had the question if God really knows where I am, and what I am doing (I know
probably a stupid question but I wanted to know). So, we went to help the
sister missionaries one night, and went to visit a guy who was excommunicated.
We knocked on the door and this 86-year-old man answered the door and he just
like told us to follow him inside so we did. We were walking through a whole
bunch of garbage, and over these wooden planks and under this tarp (thought it
was his house) and walked under it and into this 2-room apartment. I sat down
and noticed that all his walls were covered with posters and a whole bunch of
random tools… until I really noticed that all the posters and all the tools
where pictures of climbing stuff, and all the tools were ancient climbing gear.
Ice axes, ropes, carribeaners, climbing shoes, boots, tents, and just anything
you can imagine.
So when I finally
asked him about it he lit up, he was like freaking Mr. Miyagi, but like a
climbing version. He’s climbed all the biggest mountains in Latin America, and
we talked about climbing for literally hours one night. But it was just really
cool because he wasn’t listening to the sister missionaries but when we started
talking about climbing he opened right up. I was able to help him a lot and I
was also able to learn a lot about life from him. It was just really cool to
see that God knows who I am, what I like, where I’m going, and why I’m here. God
lives and always is with us and is always watching over us! It was just a super
cool experience.
Well next Monday is Mexican
Independence Day, so it will be nuts here. My area is so rad and my comp is
sick too. Love you all and see you all soon!
Love Elder Ródaba
(thats how the Mexicans say my name haha)
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