Hello World!
This week was really more sad than anything else. So much
happened that I didn´t want to happen. I guess I will start with the sad stuff.
First off, remember that young kid I baptized a while ago? Well two Sundays ago
in the night his dad´s brother (that would be his uncle, duh) was killed. His
name was Fransisco, he had some ties to gangs and was drunk in the street (this
guy is NOT a member) and a rival gang member killed him in a very gruesome
manner with a machete. So their family has been devastated this week, the
family was recently baptized less than a year ago and they are really
struggling now. We were in their house almost every day this past week helping
them with a million and one problems because the guy that died, he has a 4 year
old son named Steven and they had to take care of all the funeral
arrangements and take care of Steven. It was nuts. And when the funeral came,
well we went to his burial and it was probably the saddest thing that I ever
witnessed. I knew Fransisco a little bit, a couple times he would come help us
with service projects, but never wanted to hear anything from us about the
church. And at his burial it was terribly sad seeing his son crying as they
buried him. It was so sad because he was a good guy, but just made some bad decisions.
The family that are members tried helping him change by inviting him to church
and all those things, but I guess it's too late now.
Then what makes all this worse is two of our investigators
(drunks as well) knew Fransisco and one day told us they will get revenge on
the murderer and all this garbage, so we had to drop them for obvious safety
reasons. This is all just so complicated that we didn't have time or even brain
capacity to think about finding new investigators by talking to people in the
street and all that. Finding new people to teach was the last thing on our
minds this week. Then what made it all worse was Wednesday night when a drunk
guy (yeah everyone here is always drunk) let me know that Obama won again. I
really can´t believe that people still vote for the man, I don´t even think he's
man enough for me to call him a man. Then this drunk guy was rambling on about
how Romney is terrible and he threw a million insults at the republican party,
insults that I won´t repeat, I wouldn't even say them if I wasn't a missionary!
And I hear marijuana AND gay marriage is legal in Washington now??? Wow did I
ever pick a good time to leave the country!! Really the people here don´t like
Romney (or any Republicans) for two reasons: one, Republicans have tons of
money, and two, Republicans don´t want to open the US border. REALLY?? When the
drunk was rambling on about how evil and rich Romney is, I asked him if he knew
how much money Obama has, then the drunk... stopped ... thought about it for a
bit... and that really just made all his arguments invalid. It's sad knowing
that people look at a successful businessman as a bad option for Prez. Business
owners are not evil, they are intelligent and provide jobs for many people, I
think that's a pretty nice characteristic for a man to have right? Anyways, I
could continue for hours on how ridiculous this whole Obama thing is.. but I
will say one more thing: I am ashamed of the American people.
Okay, so recently there was an earthquake in Guatemala this
week, I didn´t feel it because I think it happened at night and I was asleep.
But I have felt like about 8 tiny earthquakes now since I have been here. Who
knows how many more have happened without me knowing, its normal here to feel
short ones that last 4 or 5 seconds.
So right now we have about 170 or 180 missionaries in
this mission, but it really isn't enough. Elder Tenecora and I are so spread
thin here. If you look on Google Maps at the city of San Vicente there's a main
road that crosses the river Achuapa, the road running north and south, well we
are responsible for everything on the East side of that street and the town
called Tecoluca (a 20 min bus ride to the south). So we really do cover a ton
of area. The other missionaries in this city cover the West side of that main
road and including the town Apastapeque (to the North\NorthEast I think). Also
the leadership in the church here is really broken, the leaders don´t follow up
on their responsibilities. Three months ago we asked the branch prez to call a
ward mission leader to help us, and we are still waiting for him to call one.
So lots of times we are always trying to do what the leaders don´t do, and we
also have to cover for the priesthood responsibilities such as bringing the
sacrament to the people who are incapable of coming to church. Its really
stressful, so that is why we want more missionaries here!!
Well... that's all I have got to share this week. I hope that
you all have a great week!
Elder Vaughan!
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