So last Monday we moved and it was a huge pain. We only moved like 3 blocks away but it still sucked. The new pensh is pretty nice though. It´s pretty big and we even have a pool out back haha. We don´t know if it works though. We´re thinking about cleaning it out and having a baptism in it haha, we think that would be pretty dope.
So the family of 9 we found are amazing. The 14 year old, Kevin, and the 11 year old, Uriel, are capos. They are some of the smartest kids I´ve ever met. When we went by last Tuesday, they had both already read 15 chapters in the book of mormon, and they had a lot of good questions for us. They also know a ton about the Bible, probably more than I do. They are a really humble family. Their house is made out of wooden crates, boards, and garbage bags and with thin sheets of tin for their roof. It´s just one room and is really small. They have 4 mattresses crammed together on one half where they all sleep and the other half is a kitchen area. They used to go to a Evangelista church and they told us that one time the pastor came to visit them and once he saw how the house was he refused to go in and never came back. Obviously that made them feel really bad and so they´re really grateful that we´re willing to visit them. Friday night we were visiting them and it started to rain really hard. Pretty much everything was getting wet because water was coming through the spaces in the roof and walls. They have a dirt floor too so it became really muddy. We were all sitting on the beds, which was the most dry part of the house. Then out of nowhere one of the sheets of metal on the roof snapped and this huge wave of water came down and landed right on the baby who was asleep on one of the mattresses. The baby started crying like crazy and the mom tried to dry him off while we tried to help the dad fix the roof. There wasn´t really anything we could do though so we all just huddled in the part of the house that was still relatively dry. It was very sad to see because this is what they go through everytime it rains. It was a very humbling experience.
Then on Sunday it was like 9:15 and they still hadn´t showed up to church so we were pretty bummed. But then the stake president overheard us talking with the other elders about them and he instantly was like ¨Vamos a buscarlos¨. So Elder Nash went with him in his car to look for them. When they came back Elder Nash told me that they´re weren´t able to come because all of their clothes and everything got completely soaked from the rain saturday night. The stake president talked with the family for a little bit though and he seems determined to help them. He said this family will be a blessing for our ward. So after church he went and talked to our bishopric about them, and now the relief society presidency is going to go visit them to see what they need. The elders quorom is going to visit as well and help out however they can. We´re pretty excited.
So to answer your question, the other two elders in our area are Elder Pierce and Elder Bizama. Elder Pierce is from California and he was in my group in the MTC. Elder Bizama is from Chile. They are actually a lot of Latino missionaries in our mission. This is my first time living with one, and it´s really cool because I get a lot more spanish practice in.
As for my new address, I have no clue. I don´t know any of the addresses here haha. I´ll have to get that for you next week.
Oh and for mom, my comp´s first name is Peter.
Have a good week,
-Elder Shelton
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