Dear everyone that I love,
To start off I want to let yall know that I GOT THE PACKAGE from all the Arlington moms
the day after I sent my last email! It was SO awesome, because I
recieved that and two other letters from Arlington, and a Dr. Pepper
that a missionary sent me from the office (at my special request). So
yeah, I pretty much felt like a rock star when all the other guys in
the Metepec Zone
saw that haha! Thank you SO MUCH Arlington moms! I don´t know how I
could exist without you... STILL. Because I STILL need you all, and I
haven´t lived in Arlington for awhile now! haha! And Mom, I FINALLY
solved the mystery of my package that has never gotten to you. I gave
it to the Zone Leaders to send by pouch, but it turns out that they
don´t even let me send packages by pouch. I was actually handed that
very same
package today right before we played fútbol... I just thought "oh!
that could be problematic"... It really frustrated me, because it has a
LOT of letters for familly members inside of it, and by now they´re all
old. Anyway, I´ll try to solve that problem next p-day.
ANYWAY,
I just need to tell you that this has been
a pretty crazy week too. I told you about the Velasquez family, and
how much we love them and just how great things were starting to look
in Tenancingo. Elder Monroe and
I were SO excited, because it trully is a very hard area, but we had
gathered up enough faith and will to overcome that barrier. We were
FINALLY gonna baptize this week! And then guess what happened. On
tuesday right after the
Zone and District meeting in Metepec, Elder Monroe and I got a call
from the Assistants to the Presidents. "Hey, Elder Hutchinson. The
Pres just told us that he was praying and all the sudden had the feeling
that you and Monroe needed to go work in CHAMAPA. So, pack your things
up, because you guys are coming RIGHT NOW." HOLY COW! So, we packed
up all of are stuff at the house (including the wet laundry), gave the
other two Tenancingo missionaries the dirrections to our investigators,
and in a couple of hours bid farewell to Tenancingo without too many
goodbyes.
SO,
I´ve been in Chamapa since last tuesday night, just to let you know!
I´ll let you know that this very area that I walk in is very famous for
3 things among the missionaries. Big hills. Crime. And Lots of
baptisms! Haha! Hence, the title.
The
hills are VERY VERY steep, and ridiculously abundant. What usually
happens is that Elder Monroe and I will go up a hill that is steeper
than 45 degrees, and after getting to the top (which is about 30 or 40
feet up if not more), we REJOICE because it is SO TIRING... That is
until we walk a few more feet and see right in front of us a valley and
ANOTHER huge hill equal in size to the one that we just finished going
up. Yes, this is on almost EVERY street in this place. And to express
my emotions, I have many a time used the wise words of my older sister
Kamille, when I say "IS THIS A SICK JOKE?" haha! Yeah... But it will
help me work harder, AND not get fat. That´s importent. (No, I´m not
fat right now,
by the way).
Crime?
Well, we saw a bunch of police men come and bust a bunch of guys
wearing black masks near their white van. What happened? You got me!
We got out of there as fast as we could. I´ve also, just by seeing the
joints in the road cracks, discovered how much more popular Marijuana
is here than in
Tenancingo. Yay!
Baptisms?
Well, I´m very proud and pleased to say that the wonderful Valasquez
family was baptized by the other missionaries last week! I feel so
happy for them, and I hope to give them a call soon to congradulate
them, and get their email address to stay in touch after the mission.
Now, here in
Chamapa, we found a miracle. We found an inactive member the day after
we arrived in the afternoon. She welcomed us in, gave us a soda, told
us how she knew she needed to come back to church, and told us that we
needed to teach the rest of her family. WOW! Oh, gee, I guess we´ll do
it... haha! But, she has been a REAL help for us, calling the Bishop
and Relief Society president (who didn´t have a clue that we arrived
this week) to help us with our horrible house situation.
So yeah! I´m here in Chamapa, and I´m just ready to meet a TON of new people, because we´re basically opening it from scratch.
Ok,
I´m running out of time, but one
last thing before I go. Today for shopping, we went to a place where
you find a lot of RICH Mexican people. What was that place you ask?
Walmart. No, that is not a joke. Walmart is one of the nicest places
you will find as far as stores go around here. Thought that was pretty
funny.
ANYWAY, Dad, it sounds
like your an AWESOME teacher with your David and Gollithe sling, and Tanner go beat the HECK out of Abilene. Love you all! Hasta la proxima semana!
Love,
Elder Christian Hutchinson
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