October 23, 2017

Tea Time with Elder Gagnon

Hello beautiful outside world! I had a real good week to be honest. My new companion, Elder Gagnon, is an answer to prayers. The guy is a stud. We know how to work hard play hard for sure.

       Last Monday was kinda like a blue moon for us missionaries. We had a holiday fall on a p-day which never happens. I dunno what holiday it even was but I do know there was a pretty neat little fair that we were allowed to go to and buy ghetto stuff we don't need so that was way fun. There was a man there who did something called spacepainting. What it basically is is he takes spraypaint and makes these insane landscape paintings with em. They made me think of you Jed and all your spraypainting adventures!! We couldn't resist so we bought two each for cheap and hung them up in our pension. We also found an old nature calendar and put all those pictures up too. So yeah you could say we're making the pension a home. We also put our weekly plans on the window in whiteboard marker and put up a ton of dots on our map. Oh yeah and Elder Gagnon burns incense. So yeah, definitely breaking in the pension.

     I think I had my favorite visit we have ever had this week. We were walking by this old guy and we told him "good day" and he quickly spat back "what's so good about it? I'm 85 years old and have already died twice!" So of course, we went back and talked to him. Imagine a stereotypical old sailor and that's exactly what this guy looked like and was! I dunno how, but we ended up going in his house and there was cobwebs and dust everywhere. I legit thought I was talking to a ghost. It was so dang weird it was awesome. He told us about his pact with the devil he made and how he wants to be the secretary in hell. Then he showed us a massive scar on his stomach where he had all his intestines taken out and cleaned then put back in. It was just straight creepy. We're gonna go back this week too ;)

Well, the thing I look forward to every day now is tea time. Tea time takes place from 10-10:25 each night outside our pension. We prepare light crackers and jam or some other snack and have mate cocido every night. (mate cocido is kinda like herbal tea). So yeah, we just chill outside and light up an incense and then just sip our mate cocido and talk about life and the mission and just whatever we want. It's so dorky that it’s fun. And it's such a change of pace that it has increased my mental health by like 300%. 

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

I didn't take too many pics this week. So here's two pics from tea time (one with and the other without flash :)) and the other pic is of the sunrise this morning which is nowhere near as good as Utah sunsets but is still pretty dang dope I think!!