Monday November 25th
So, some of the highlights of this week
were watching the parade, playing with a crab, having Gabriela´s
baptism in a river, going to the island, and a cruel joke that a
member pulled on me and my companion. What happened, is that Brother
Manrubio, one of the faithful members of the branch who always goes
with us to teach, called me and said that he had committed a serious
sin and that he needed to talk to us, and so I got all freaked out
and got into it a little with my companion and it turns out it was
all just a joke and he invited us to eat Tortas and Sodas, but he
called us at the 11 in the morning and he knew that if he just
invited us to eat we would have said that we had lessons to teach. He
is a really cool guy and he said that he only invited us to eat
because, "le caemos bien."
The
parade was in celebration of the Mexican Independence Day, which was
the 20th of November. The Island is called Mexcaltitan, Tell Grandpa
Happy Birthday for me! I do have photos from Gabriela´s baptism,
I'll send them later. I bench pressed 255 if Jess is there, you
will have to tell her sorry but big bro is still the strongest one in
the house, but that she is a close second!
98
people came to church on Sunday, the most that have come in my time
in San Blas, so that was pretty awesome. The bad thing is that none
of our investigators came. I confirmed Gabriela and it was the first
time that I confirmed a person in my mission, it was pretty awesome,
I didn't feel like I did a great job, but it was fun! I have had the
chance in San Blas to bless the sacrament, teach the youth, and teach
the Gospel Principles class. Our area is the one that is farther away
from the beach. We eat with the same members every week, and one of
the poorer families feeds us 2 times a week, the 4 of us, can you
imagine that! Speaking of that, that sounds fun that the missionaries
ate with you guys last week, I´m sure that was fun for both you and
them!
Sounds
like you are keeping yourselves busy and that´s great. I wrote to
Nate today and he wrote me a nice letter as well. We are going to
have Thanksgiving with Sister Magdlena, the one who lived in the U.S.
for a long time, she made us lunch this week, we had roast and it was
pretty awesome, it was a little different for Elder Martinez, I am
not sure how much he liked it. I did my normal exercise this week and
did divisions with Elder Krambule. He is from Idaho and we talked in
English the whole time, it was pretty awesome. We had a lot of
success that day and I felt very relaxed for a change.
Thanks
for the letters you guys wrote to me, they help me a lot and I always
need them, and am grateful for them. In every one of my prayers I
thank God for sending me to this earth to the family he sent me to. I
remember one time, an elder said to me, "elder, you don´t know
how lucky you are to have such a nice family," and I remember
thinking, no, I have a great family, but a pretty normal one, but
then I realized that wasn't true. I will give you a few examples from
my companions of why I say that, and these things are between me and
you guys. …...........Just a few examples, and the more I think
about it I am more and more grateful for the family I have. I love
you guys and am thankful for everything that you do for me. Thanks
for all of the money that you have sent to me, and I will do the best
that I can to spend it more wisely. I love you guys and miss you and
think about you often!
Love,
Elder Jarvis
p.s.
I also saw some people playing baseball today and it made me a
little homesick, and this week I contacted a guy who had a baseball
helmet on, a lot of people here use those as motorcycle helmets as he
was doing, and anyways, the point is that he actually knew something
about baseball! His son is a pro baseball player here in Mexico! Can
you believe that!
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