Les voy a escribir este primer párrafo en Español, para que no me puedan entender jajaja. Pues, pónganlo en google translate o algo. Bueno, tuve una semana muy, muy buena. Tuvimos muchas lecciones, pero lo chafa es que nosotros tuvimos que poner el bautismo (que íbamos a tener esta semana) en este martes, mañana. Entonces no tengo fotos de bautismos para mandarles :( Pero esta bien, próximo lunes les voy a mandar.
[I'm going to write you this first paragraph in Spanish, so that you can't understand, ha ha ha. Well, put it in Google translate or something. So, I had a good, good week. We had lots of lessons, but the bummer is that we had to reschedule the baptism that was planned for this week, to tomorrow- Tuesday. So, I don't have any baptism photos to send you all. :( But it's ok, I'll send them next Monday.]
Well I hope y'all understood that... Writing in Spanish still takes a bit of work. But yeah, I had a good week this week. We found a pretty decent amount of new investigators in our area. We have tons of people to work with, which is really nice. We have a lot of people who should be getting baptized in the next two to three weeks. What's really neat about being in a branch without a church building (we hold our services in a house of one of the members here) is that we are going to hold all of our baptisms, starting tomorrow, in rivers, and lakes, and pools, instead of traveling an hour and a half to the closest church building. So there should be some pretty cool photos heading your guys' way this next Monday.
The language has been really interesting for me. I can talk pretty much fluently (I've been working a lot on ironing out my grammar mistakes and my gringo accent), understand everything, but my accent is what gets me. A lot of the times people don't understand me very well, because I still have a pretty thick accent. My comp right now is from the state of Michaocan, but he has a very, very strong Chilango accent (the accent from Mexico City, which is a very interesting accent). So for the past four weeks I've been speaking hard core chilango. It's been fun learning this type of spanish, because it's the accent native to my mission.
It's been pretty crazy running all up and down, all over the place. This past week I was only in my area for five days max. This week, I'm going to return to my area tomorrow at about 3. Then this thursday we have to travel to Brisas (one of my old areas) to do baptism interviews. Then Friday we have to go to the center of Cuautla (2 hours away from my area) to go to a leadership meeting. Since I'm not the district leader, I'm going to go on divisions with the comp of the other District leader in our zone, for half of the morning. And then I'm going to head over to Casasano (another area in our district) to do divisions and train the Elders there. And then we're going to head back up to our area on saturday and do divisions with other elders in our area as well. It's been an exhausting schedule, and it's going to get even more busy. But I've learned a lot about sacrifice in this cycle, and it's really been fantastic.
I love you guys so much. Thanks for always writing me and making time for me. Please stay safe.
Love,
Elder William Jacob Long
PS I've got some fotos to send you guys! This one is of my old district! The others are my area and how hilly it is hahahaha.
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