John In El Salvador

Sencillo:      I've found out the cure to not wanting to walk anymore is walk faster. Here are some notes from my agenda:      On Monday, after writing, I broke my pencil, which was a bummer, but that night when visiting a less active member, she saw my pencil had broken, so she left, and came back with a really nice silver pen, and insisted that I take it. That night we helped a family have a family night, and since it was Elder Perez's last night in the area before cambios, we had ice cream. On Tuesday I was doing some laundry in the morning. Our washing machine's brand name is whirlpool, but Elder Velasquez and I decided it should be called Earthquake. We got a Quesadilla that night (it is nothing like the quesadillas you know). And that night we tried out a new pupuseria, and one pupusa only costs 25 cents there, so I had 8. On Wednesday we had our first district/zone council in this second cambio. We got to know the new missionaries that had been t...

Let me just let y'all know. I love my mission. It is fun. It is exciting, but most importantly, it is a place of growth for me beyond my expectations. My letters sound difficult and sometimes discouraging because I always learn more from 1 hard experience, than I respond to positively, than 10 easy experiences. Truth is, a mission's hard, but frankly, it's so worth it.  Sencillo:      Well. I've finally reached the point where I'm still not even close, but that's the fun part. Here are some notes from my agenda: On Monday, all I really wrote was first, I bought some tang, which is fruit juice powder for my water, and that's made things a lot more exciting, and I also wrote the phrase, "We ain't talking marshmallows", not really sure why. On Tuesday we did cambios for a day. I went to a place called Congo and stayed with Elder Pastrana. We had a really productive day there, from finding lots of people prepared for our message to helping ...