Mom!!!
Hey so my first week was super cool. I got an
awesome trainer and i got placed in a part of Phoenix called Maryvale. It is a
ton like how Jason would describe Phili to us. There are gangsters everywhere
and everybody smokes and drinks and in a lot of the houses that we visit we can
smell marijuana. It is really gross. But anyways the members here are really
nice and we all tease each other already even though I have only been here for
one Sunday! Its awesome.
So far here we have done a ton of cooking for
ourselves just because there are like 80 active members and like 300 inactive
members. It’s crazy. It has been like 110 degrees since the day that I got here
to Phoenix and it is supposed to be starting to cool down to like 90's for the
next month. I am super excited! I’m doing fine adjusting to mission life. It is
really not that hard. By the time you have to be back in the apartment and stuff
at night you just want to lay down and pass out. Its crazy.
We teach so many people and there are so many
people here to teach. In our ward there is maybe like 80-100 active members and
then there are 300 inactive members. So we have some work cut out for us to do
here. It is super exciting to know that all of the boys in the ward are stepping
up and trying to set a good example now that I am gone. I really hope that
Brenden and Riley get on missions soon so that they can write to me from where
they are serving!
The mission field is definitely a lot
different than how I expected it. I thought that it would be like so strict that
it would ruin all for the fun. But it is the exact opposite. Some of the rules
are actually there and they make it better and of course safer for us to be
around. Where I am everybody has their bikes duct taped just to make them look
like they are really crappy bikes so that they wont get stolen. But I haven’t
done that yet so as of right now my bike is probably in the hands of some
Mexican Gangster downtown or something. It is really weird to think that there
are places as poor and dirty as this place is here in the US. It’s crazy to
think about. everybody lives in apartments and we get fed very little by the
members. Almost all of the members are recent converts also.
Well it’s been amazing so far mostly because I
haven’t been mugged or beaten up yet so that is the upside along with every
other part of my mission.
Love,
Elder Wallentine
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