K.O. 😵

Let me explain the title “K.O.” or “knock out” real quick. On Tuesday we got back late from district council where we were helping the elders of Tepeji make a Facebook post that took us way too long (the final product was not good). But we finally arrived at the house and I sat down on the couch to make some calls. We were about to leave though and I accordingly stood up from the couch to “do my business” before leaving to visit people. I must have gotten up at super sonic speeds though cause the second I entered the bathroom I felt SUPER light headed, I literally just remember standing in the bathroom and thinking something a long the lines of: “man Im light headed, I hope I don’t faint” and boom I woke up on the tile floor with my companion yelling extremely loud. I hadn’t ever fainted before in my entire life and it was definitely a weird sensation. My comp said I was knocked out for like 5 seconds but I believe that was somewhat of an exaggeration. I felt like I had literally woken up from a nap and I felt disoriented and didn’t remember even starting to fall over. Luckily I didn’t hit my head too hard and I’ve been completely fine since. Afterwards we left to go make some visits and all was well, but a stark introduction to the week.

Wednesday we were able to find Juan Carlos again. He was the guy we found drunk and eating Doritos a few weeks back. Actually we found him quite sober working on his car. He didn’t have much time but when he’s not under the influence, he’s a cool guy. He talked to us, accepted a Book of Mormon and it turns out his wife is an elementary school teacher and he has 2 little kids. I hope to be able to keep teaching him. He speaks very good english too.

Thursday we had quite a long service project with some older people in the branch. We were just cutting grass and shoveling old grass into a wheel barrow, but a combination of the heat and the fact the yard was big made us take some time. We started at about 10:30 ish and left the house at about 4. Its always nice to serve but I left about as red as a tomato (my neck got somewhat burnt) later on we visited the 2 kids we were gonna baptize and it still doesn’t look like that’ll happen anytime soon cause their dad still wont give them permission. It’s a good family but a tough situation. Later we went to go visit one more family with a returned missionary in the branch. It’s a good family and I hope we can keep teaching them.

On Friday we had exchanges in Tepeji again. They were our last with them cause elder Tippets was gonna leave the area and transfers are today (Monday) Tippets is a great dude and I’ll miss the guy. He got sent to be a zone leader in Cincoc with Elder Alvarez, one of my former companions. Actually I might as well just spoil the transfers now cause its pretty dang underwhelming. I’m staying in Jilotepec with my comp and everything’s the exact same. The companion I just had, elder Sanchez is coming to the district so that’ll be interesting.

Saturday night was a bit crazy. We went to a far place in our area called Calpulalpan. In bus its about 40 minutes away. We helped a guy paint the bathroom in his restaurant. Then we went to go teach Jorge, the guy who got baptized a few weeks ago. After that we went even farther and we taught some other recent converts. The only way to reach their house is walking 40 minutes on a dirt road, while walking, it started to pour and we got soaked. The people we went over to teach gave us dry shirts to put on. Its always really nice when people do that but we always look like 2 random dudes in street clothes when we leave the lessons. We left and everyone told us the last bus that left from Calpulalpan passed by at 8. Luckily we got there at 7:45. We waited and waited and it passed 8 and it never came by. We went to a nearby store and asked and they told us that on weekends the last bus passes at like 6. We had no idea how we were gonna get home. Luckily right then a taxi passed by. It only took us halfway home cause taxis are expensive and we didn’t want them to cover us a ton so we got of in a place called Canalejas which is still about 25-30 minutes away. There we assumed we could find a taxi or a bus, but it was super crowded with people and we couldn’t find anything, we started to call members but no one answered. It was already dark and we just looked like 2 random scrawny dudes cause of the normal clothes we were wearing (our wet missionary clothes were in a bag) we finally got hold of a member and they told us they were coming to pick us up. We sat ourselves down on a curb and waited. It was already about 9:30. The member finally arrived and proceeded to tell us how dangerous it was to be sitting on a curb at 9:30 at night in street clothes in that part of town. We finally got home though, and then we received the underwhelming transfer news.

Sunday was a bit slower. The meeting was fine. We had to give talks. I talked about the scriptures and my comp talked about worshipping with faith or something. Later on we went to go eat in a park with some of the brethren of the branch. We went to go meet some guy named Carlos in his little restaurant to teach him a lesson. He was a guy that never had time cause he had 3 jobs so the last missionaries had to stop teaching, but he no longer has 3 jobs and he’s a little less busy. He’s already been to church twice so thats good. Later on, we went to go find Juan Carlos the no longer drunk, drunk guy. We were worried cause he didn’t show up at Church and we think he’d blocked our number on Whatsapp. He wasn’t home either so that was tough, but we’re gonna keep visiting him to see if we can find him cause he was honestly a good guy. Anyway thats another week. Its crazy to think ill have 13 months soon 😲

Pics.

1. Service