This week was a pretty good one with a lot of success and I loved it. It got really really cold on Wednesday. Our weather app said it felt like -18 degrees and our mission president had everyone park the cars and stay inside, because you can apparently get frostbite in 10 minutes... but we had a meeting at the mission president's home, so everyone who didn't go to that meeting had to stay inside. It was really cold. I did not enjoy it. It gave me some fat headaches.
We have started teaching a family named Ramirez. They are super kind. They are less active and the mom's boyfriend is not a member. They are from Juarez Mexico and we think they really like us. They have this like 11 or 12 year old daughter and she is an absolute savage it is so funny.
We also found another household (don't know if they are all related) and they are from Guatemala. They have some real potential, one of them even came to church yesterday, which was kind of a surprise to be honest. It was awesome!
Another family is from Veracruz, Mexico. Down here the majority of the people seem to be from Mexico, which is a little different than Santa Fe. They are all super kind. I really like it here. The ward seems to be pretty cool, the group seems to be cool, most of the doors we knock seem to be Spanish, even when we aren't trying, it's pretty sweet.
There are also a lot of Africans. They are everywhere in the Kansas City area. We started teaching a man from Tanzania and he is pretty cool. The KC area is super diverse. In Independence there are tons of Polynesians, quite a few Hispanics, people from Pompeii, and a ton of other ethnicities and immigrants, which is super cool. I ask a lot of people why they came to KC or Kansas or Missouri from their country and they always have 2 answers. 1st is that they have friends here. The other is that it is the cheapest place and that it has the most jobs here. You can literally get a house in KC for 10 grand. And the houses are huge. Granted, it's a piece of crap, but hey, it is what it is.
I got to go back to Paola this week for a district council. It was pretty cool. That place truly is in the middle of nowhere, holy smokes. But it was cool to be back. I get to go on exchanges there once or twice this transfer and I'm excited for that.
We had a lot of lessons this week, which is always the best. We seem to just teach and teach. We also got to eat out twice this week. Once at Bonito Michoacan and another time at Tropicana, both were really really good and fresh.
My companion's name is Elder Ellis. The dood is a goof, I love em. We get along well. He is a really hard worker and one of the most obedient companions I have had. He cracks me up.
Elder Ogden
I'm in the back of the pic with Sister Love...tippy toes only work sometimes. ;)
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