Alright, this week has been a little nuts, let's go!
Well,
firstly what happened was the a couple Elders from my district came to
our house last monday night to stay the night so we could all go wait
for the bus to pass by at 3:45 in the morning on Tuesday! So, we didn't
really sleep much, obviously, but we got up around 2 so that everyone
could shower and get ready and everything and then we took a taxi over
to the place we were told to wait with our zone. We were the first ones
there and waited for a bit until the others arrived, and then the bus
got there and we started heading off for Veracruz.
Well, on the way we were all wondering what was going on, because
for all three zones (Tuxpan, Poza Rica, and Papantla) of us to be
traveling all the way to Veracruz, it couldn't be some multi zone
conference thingy, or else they'd just come up to Poza Rica, like
always. But, nobody knew what was up, and there were a lot of rumors
floating around. Well, we picked up the Elders of Papantla as well and
my old comp. Elder Lyons walked in! Wooh! It had only been like a month
and a half without seeing him, but it was really cool to see him again
and talk to him. I mean, we were together all day every day for 4 and a
half months, you kind of have to learn to love each other like brothers
or want to kill each other. Well, we were talking and laughing the whole
four and a half or five hours to Veracruz, so it was really cool.
Then, once we got there, I noticed that there were a few Elders
standing outside that I knew, and that I knew were from ANOTHER
different zone that's a lot farther south. So we were all even more
confused, because it appeared that the whole mission was meeting. Aaand,
that's just what it ended up being. A random, surprise Mission
Conference, with the whole mission together again. We were all a little
shocked, because those things are usually pretty well announced, but we
took our seats when told, and President Treviño got up to talk. He
teased us for a bit with different reasons for why we were all there,
because it was the 14th of February, he mentioned a Valentine's mission
party jokingly, and a few other things, but finally he told us the
reason. Plain and simple, he said... The mission is going to be divided.
WHAT!? There was silence suddenly and everyone looking at each other.
Then he told us that, through our hard work and efforts, the General
Authorities of the church have decided that our mission is ready to be
split down the middle and become, Mission Mexico Xalapa and Mission
Mexico Veracruz. The zones in Xalapa will be, Teziutlán, Martinez de la
Torre, Tuxpan, Xalapa, Papantla, and of course... Poza Rica. And the
rest in Veracruz, (three zones there), Orizaba, Foreaneos, and Los
Tuxtlas, will be of the mission Veracruz.
So. The change won't happen until June or July, but if I stay here
four changes, as I did in my last area, I will be part of opening a new
mission, with a new mission president and new leaders and lots of new
areas opening up. Really nuts! Also, Elder Billings, my MTC comp., is in
Teziutlán right now (he got moved to my district when I left) and would
also be in the new mission. We're hoping as well that Elder Fullmer and
Elder Johnson from the MTC group get changed up here soon so that we
all follow in the same mission, but we'll go where the Lord wants us to
go I guess!
Then we had some really awesome time to listen to Sister Treviño
and a few other speakers, and we were off again for Poza Rica. It was a
really interesting day, which headed off a bit of a rough week. We were
working hard and praying hard and studying hard and just struggling with
finding people and getting accepted, but at the end of the week, there
was a really good family night that we did yesterday, and the sister
teaching it chose to talk about adversity, and how it helps us learn,
develop, and grow into the people and leaders we need to be for God. So,
I really liked that and my comp. and I are ready to work our heads off
this week. =P
Well, what more can I say? I'm running out of time, but the work is
moving forward and I'm loving the mission. Crazy awesome experiences
all the time, and we're all excited.
Love you all! Write me letters and stuff!
Elder DeFreese
1. Elder Lyons and I on the bus on the way to Veracruz! Wooh!
2.
Elder Wilkinson, the little brother of my good buddy Johnathan
Wilkinson from my German class in High School! Wah!? Yeah, he's in my
mission. Haha
3. A little view of one side of Poza Rica from the top of a hill by our house.
4.
If you can zoom in on the sign I'm pointing at and suddenly understand
spanish, you'll see that ''dumping trash is prohibited''. Hahaha
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