Okay, I don't really even know where to start for this week, because I'm not sure what i've told you.
Um, this last weekend was General Conference. I love General Conference. As always, you have to rate and see if Saturday was better than Sunday or vice versa. I definitely say that Saturday, as a whole, was way better than Sunday. Every talk on Saturday was super powerful and direct. In Priesthood Conference, I loved what Elder Uchtdorf spoke about "Lord, is it i?". Look in before looking out when problems or conflicts arise. But here's a little story of conference. On Saturday morning and afternoon, we went to the Stake Center to watch it in English (since it's the Language of the Restoration). I loved that people got to speak in their native tongues. Why? Because I hated when General Authorites would talk with Latin accents that nobody could even understand. But whenever a Latino would show up to give his talk in Spanish, we would all run out of the English room and over to the chapel to hear it in the guy's native tongue. It is just so much more powerful that way. I felt kind of silly getting up and changing rooms, but it was necessary. I am so glad a can understand English and Spanish as if I speak them both fluently. But anyway, when about 4:30 rolled around, we realized that time was winding down to Priesthood and that we'd been in the same building since like 10 am. We decided that we wanted to go watch Priesthood with President Markham. So, we called him asking if he could. He said yes! We loaded up the cars and headed over. There was dinner! and dessert! We hooked up a laptop to the projector and showed it on the wall. We organized the couches in a comfortable manner, and watched conference in style and comfrot. And to top it off, not only was President Markham there, but also the Mission Presidents of the South and East missions! Definitely a conference to remember.
Here, we love to play soccer with the young men. We play all the time with them, whenever we have energy to do it. Sometimes, on P-Day, we just sleep. Others, we play then sleep. Here's a couple pictures of our squads that have gotten together to play.I'm actually really glad that when we get together and play, I don't really embarrass myself. Sure, my touch isn't perfect, but I hold my own out there. It's a lot of fun.
We had a monumental day here in the office on Wednesday. We have been complaining about our computers because they were virus infested but nobody ever came to clean them off. Instead of coming to clean them off, the Area Office came and gave us brand new computers! But there not just normal desktops, they are touch screens! Yea! They're like huge Tablets with keyboards and a mouse. They are so sweet. Way nicer than the ones we had before. They're a lot faster...and bug free! It's strange to think that we have these in the office but have the crappiest fones still... But it's fine. If we had nicer fones, we'd get robbed more.
Speaking of getting robbed. Here's a fun story. A couple weeks ago, Elder Roney and Elder Clouse (two other secretaries) got robbed. Not much was taken, just their fones and like 3 Qetzales (or 40 cents). We kinda felt bad for them because the guy had a gun and they lost their fone. Anyway, we got everything back to normal. They had a new fone and were out working again. On Tuesday, they went up to the same neighborhood. The same guy comes out with the same gun pointed at them to rob them again! This time, the guy took their watches and like 30 Qetzales (or $4) and their fone--AGAIN. When they got home that night, I didn't believe them. I thought there were joking. Then they're like, if we didn't get robbed, where are our watches?! When I realized that, I believed them. And I just died laughing! The same 5'5" guy robbed them again! I love it. One of the best things ever.
Speaking of people bugging us in general. I have a nice little story. This happened Wednesday night. We had just finished with a Fellowshipping Fireside in the church building. It was about 8:30 or so and we were kinda on the way back home but were just talking to a few people in the streets to see who we could visit (gotta love street contacting!) Anyway, so as we're walking, we pass by a drunk guy that yells at us "Brothers, come here" (the come here part in Spanish). I just whistle a greeting and we keep walking because we can clearly see that he's super drunk. We keep on and he enters his car. We stop a little down the street and start talking to a family. The drunk guy, in his car, stops beside us and keeps yelling stuff. We quickly stop talking to the family and keep walking. We stop a gain a little ways up, but this time, we pullin a little alley to talk to a family (don't worry, the alley is well let and there are houses down there. they're not the alleys of the Bronx). The guy somehow gets his car up there too and keeps yelling at us! So we stop talking to the family and just run. He had his car crammed in there, so we kinda had to jump over the trunk part to be freed. He backed the car out and came after us! It was a hot pursuit! So, with some smart thinking, we turn down a One Way street going against the flow of traffic. This drunk guy followed us! He was dodging cars and everything. It was insane! So we were taking turns trying to lose him. We got to a point where he wasn't behind us anymore. So we stop in a little store on the road and hid out. Everybody was watching us because we were breathing super hard and peaking around the corner to see if he'd come. He turned on the road and started coming down to us. But, he didn't see us. Once again, we start booking it around a different corner. I remembered a family that lived closed and just prayed that the husband would be there so we could enter. He was and we entered. The guy drove past the door because we were peaking through the windows. It was crazy!! One of my new favorite stories of the mission.
Anyway, that's about all that's been happening lately! At the end of this month, the sister missionaries that enter with me will be going home. That means I'm almost at the 6 month til home mark! That's super crazy!
Love y'all!
--Elder Hunt
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