This week has been really crazy. To be honest, this is going to be a relatively short email because in a few minutes I have to head over to the hospital, because my comp has an appointment (don't worry I'm healthy and happy!).
So I'm in Chalco now! I'm in a really small community called Paseos de Chalco and Villas de Chalco. They're two really small communities. It's one of the smallest areas in the mission which is kind of crazy. My new comp, Elder Hernandez, is awesome. He's this really funny guy from a small town in Chiapas, Mexico. He's just a golden missionary. The mission has been really hard for him, because this past transfer cycle, in the first week, he had to get his appendix removed (I'm sure I spelled that wrong, Spanish has ruined me hahahaha). And then after a week or so, the wound got infected, and they had to reopen it and clean everything. So he's been sick for like 6 weeks. He couldn't work at all last cycle, and when I got with him he was fairly depressed because he hadn't worked in so long. But he's doing so well. He's finally healing up, and we're getting to work full days, 110% ability, every single day now, and his entire attitude has changed in these 6 days and that makes me so happy.
The area was in really poor shape when we got there. It had suffered a whole 6 weeks without missionary work, and it has been a difficult week. We are working so hard and it's so awesome. It feels so raw. It reminds me of when I went up to open Tetela from scratch. We are working our rears off to get the ward members excited about missionary work. We are planning ward missionary activities every single week and just busting it on contacting and receiving references. We're working super closely with our elders' quorum president, our ward mission leader and the bishopric. It's great because we're pulling the ward together. I've always given 100% as a missionary, but I've learned so much now on how to effectively do missionary work utilize the members, and everything, and it's all coming together to form an epic transfer cycle. My comp is dying to work hard and super happy, I'm busting my rear as well, we're getting the whole ward involved, and everything is going great :)
Well that's all for now. I love you all! Sorry, I don't have photos, and I can't send them from this computer anyways hahahaha.
Love,
Elder William Jacob Long
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