With the Bishop of the ward he is serving in and another set of missionaries. (His comp is the Mexican without the glasses)
Dear All,
This week was pretty fun. My area is the whole downtown of
Tijuana, so it is therefore also the most sinful place I have been in my
life.
So there are two streets in the mission that we are supposed
to avoid if possible, and on those streets there are two blocks that we
absolutely 100% cannot cross. They are both in my area. And last monday, that
was the freaking first place we went. Not to the blocked zones, but one block
away. And in a freaking hotel. It was a reference we got from the offices of
the mission. That was weird. I'm not sure exactly how I felt going into a
hotel, in an area famous for sketchy hotels, and even more with my companion by
my side. Weird impression of mormons we must have given some people. It was a
great lesson though, a less active guy who used to live in Ohio who got
baptized and has the preisthood and wants to go to the temple and get sealed.
The only thing, and poor guy, he told us the sisters that taught him that they
promised him that they would come and see his sealing. He took that to mean
that they would come get sealed to him. Haha whoops gotta be careful what you
say.
The rest of the week was lots and lots of meetings. We had a
leadership counsel on wednesday that started at 9 am and was supppsed to end at
2, but surprise we didn't leave there until 5. Woo. It was pretty cool though.
I had always thought President Garcia was just a warm and friendly guy, but
when it's just the Zone Leaders, and someone screws up, he let's em know. It
was pretty fun.
On Friday we decided to start doing something cool in the
zone. We do surprise exchanges. We just show up at the house of a companionship
and let them know that we are going to do exchanges that day. So we picked one
and showed up, right at the hour that they were supppsed to be studying. Fun
fact., Not home. They were at the mall. Que oso. So that was a great way to
start out being a ZL, chewing out a missionary for not studying.
But the rest of the day was pretty chill. I got to see
"La mona" which is this gigantic statue of a woman that's like hidden
in this canyon slum. But when I say gigantic I mean freaking huge. Like easily
50 feet tall. According to the story. some guy just up and decided to make it,
like no big deal whatever. Just gonna sculpt a giant woman here on my back
porch. Like what the heck.
But the best part about this area are the TACOS. Holy good.
Tacos of every kind you could imagine. Pescado, adobada, asada, cabeza, birria,
everything. So good. And everywhere. Every corner has its little stand and then
there are like 3 taquerias on every block. If we come back, we are going to get
some fish tacos that we ate, gigantic and only 13 pesos, less than a dollar. I
ate 3 and was super full. It was pretty legit.
The ward is pretty cool, our chapel here is the oldest in
Tijuana and I think the second chapel in all of Mexico. It looks like the old
chapels that you see in Utah, just not as big. But it's pretty legit. Lots of
seasoned memebers, and the Patriarch is in our ward too. That's probably the
coolest part. When my companion introduced me to the Partriarch, he looked
super familiar. I didn't know why. But then I realized. When Elder Zundel and I
went to San Diego to the temple, he was the one who did our session. Cool
connection.
This week we are starting operation TJ, meaning that we are
going to stand on street corners and just hand out as many temple cards as we
possibly can, like the TJ's (Testigos de Jehova). We shall see how that goes.
Los quiero mucho,
Elder Rawlings
View from apartment window
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