Friends!
What's up? The Mission is Awesome!! Me and my companion are still get along really well and time is flying by. New missionaries are trained for 12 weeks on the mission (2 transfers). So he is still considered my trainer. After 12 weeks we are supposed to be fully capable missionaries to lead our own area and maybe train somebody else. Lots of Elders have told me that I have really good Spanish and that I'd better be ready to train someone after this transfer. But with the President leaving, they're not going to do many switches at the end of this transfer, and really, I'd be happy to stay with Elder Schow in this area. So who knows.
This week we had our final conference with President Valadez. The new mission president, President Meacham, arrives in two weeks. The conference was super good and super powerful. There was a testimony meeting and the president and his wife were crying. President talked about working hard until the very end of your mission. As well as obedience and all the usual things.
Let's see, new things from this week:
There are dogs everywhere here. Today, I got attacked for the first time! :) Usually it's the small dogs that come and yap at your ankles, but there was a big black dog that was tied up on the sidewalk. We walked past and he went crazy right as I was in front of him. He jumped up and put his teeth around my hip, but I yanked my hip out of his mouth before anything happened. I was worried my pants would be ripped, but we're good! Now I'm like an official missionary!
Weird things I've eaten:
They take Pork Rines (dried pig skin) and put it in soup, so it gains its hydration again. So it's similar to eating pig skin. That's interesting.
I've eaten tripe tacos. Tripe, apparently, is cow stomach. I didn't know that's what the tacos were until after I'd eaten them.
Have an Awesome week y'all!
Elder Jarrett
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