June 21, 2010
Buenos Dias, Familia Arroz!
This new transfer is off to a good start, as I mentioned before my companion is Elder Manship, he was in my MTC district and we know each other pretty well so it's been fun this first week. Actually the best part was seeing him in this new area. He just finally got out of his first area (he's been in the same area he started in when he first came to the mission about 10 months ago). His last area in a city called Katy, supposedly isn't too different from Utah, he's from Brigham City, and he says that his area was more or less the same as his hometown, mostly suburbs and middle class citizens. Imagine his surprise to come out here to Magnolia among the trailer parks, when we were tracting on his first day here he said "What the heck! There are horses in people's front yards!" He doesn't really like this area at all, we have no investigators, we have lots of sketchy potentials, (people we've tracted into) and that's about it. This week we've just gone out and tracted for several hours every day and, unsurprisingly, nothing has come from it. Tracting just isn't effective, especially out in the middle of nowhere, for every 10 trailers we knock, 1 person will open the door, and most of the time they're white people. The hispanics are getting scarce. I'm pretty sure Elder Frost and I talked to the majority of hispanics in several places, and now we are actually running out of places to tract (places that could possibly have hispanics). In this one trailer park, we just have a couple more streets to do then we'll have knocked every door in there and we haven't gotten a single investigator out of it. I believe the general idea, and this is what our Mission President says as well, is that the purpose of the tracting is to demonstrate your diligence to the Lord and as a result he will eventually lead you to someone who is ready for the gospel. So that's what we're kind of going on here.
Well as usual I don't have much to write about, the pictures are of when we burned some garbage at a members trailer, it was pretty fun, since "the garbage man" does not exist in the far flung reaches of Texas, everyone has a burn pile in they're backyard when they burn all of their garbage. It's pretty fun, many times with fantastic results, we burned an air conditioner once and it exploded (twice!), we burned an old TV, a couch, and all sorts of random objects that constitute the old broken junk that people have in their backyard. Many times it makes this nasty oily smoke that smells real bad. So that's what most of the pictures are.
Also is a picture of a dead armadillo, it's was the first armadillo I have ever seen and it was pretty big, I should have had someone stand next to it to give some sort of sense of how big it was, almost as big as the dog, Lexy. but it was dead and it was the worst smell I have ever smelt in my entire life, it smelled like dead fish but infinitely worse, I don't know. One of the english elders we live with, Elder Hurd, says that supposedly armadillos carry leprosy, I could believe that, it certainly smelled like it could carry that.
Okay that's about everything, oh and Mom I am indeed keeping up in my journal, speaking of which I need some more, I finished my 2nd one the other day and I tried to find another one in Wal-Mart last P-Day but they didn't have any journals whatsoever, I had to stick with a spiral bound notebook. If you could send me a couple more of those same kind of journals that you got me (which if I recall correctly came from Wal-Mart) it would be sweet. Well I hope you all are having fun, have fun at Youth Conference Alyssa and Austin, Flaming Gorge sounds vaguely familiar I think I might have been there before, I don't know. I can't remember anything anymore about not being a missionary. I love you all, bye.
-- Elder Rice
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