Ethan's address in Mexico

Elder Ethan Schaeffer Runyan
Mexico Tuxtla Gutierrez Mission
Calle Jazmines #210
Fracc. Los Laureles
29020 Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas
Mexico

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Finally done with 12 weeks!!!

Hello there outside world! This week was crazy. Very crazy. And very short.

Monday : Well we got together with a bunch of our zone and had a mud soccer tourney which was sweet and super muddy. That was probably the coolest thing all week. HTen we cleaned off and did family history.

Tuesday : We got a good amount of work done and we talked to two people who were baptized and never recieved the holy ghost. Awk. So that was more than 6 months ago so we are gonna re baptize them and that means two free baptisims.

Wednesday. We got a good mount of work done and found a cool kid who was dribbling a soccer ball the entire time during our lesson while paying attentiona dn answering every question. apparently he pays better attention while doing that. Then the elders from the Morro and the elders fromSanfransisco Del Mar came over and slept in our house because Elder Valensuela from the area of the 70 is coming and weneeded to get up at 2 am.

Thursday. Got up at 2 am and headed to the church with a change of clothers and off to tuxtla for the reunion at 9. We got there and it was super cool! I got to see Elder Hansen (My comp from the MTC) and a couple of the other guys that i have met and come to know throught my time here! Then we heard from Elder Valensuela and it was rad. He was very inspiring. THis year we are working on recent convert retention. People dont like to stay in the church here and there are over 90000 members in this mission and less than 1/10th are active. It is crazy. Then we Went to the doctors appointment for Elder Jones and he needed to go get x rays and so we did that and when we came back the place was closed. Well just have to do it another day.

Friday : Well I woke up and felt like crap. Elder jones went to go do his stuff. Apparently after looking at the x rays, his back is crazy deformed from birth and he might very well need surgery on his spine because his obturator foramen is sealing off and if it does then he loses all control of his legs. so we need to get an MRI done to see if there is muscle or nerve damage. so that sucks. Then my crap got worse and worse throught the day and they narrowed it down to chinkonguña. So I felt like i was about to die. So then the Mission president and Elder Valensuela from the Area of the 70 gave me a blessing. Maybe the coolest blessing I will ever recieve in my life. I got better very quickly after that as you can imagine. So thats pretty rad.

Saturday : We got up and headed out to get some last minute stuff done, and then went with a bunch of people to go back to our area but the bus broke down so we had to stay the night in Chahuites with our zone leaders. That was nice. 

Sunday : well we got back just in time for sacrament and then we left and changed out of our dirty clothes and showered and did our weekly planning. Thats all.

This morning. The changes. Nothing. Our whole surounding 2 districs are now one and nobody got moved. Thats all!

Scripture of the week : Psalms 46:10
 “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
 Read it. Pray about it. Ponder it. Act on what you discover.

Much love to you all!!! 

Con Amor
Elder Runyan


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