14 Months!

hi mom thanks so much for the mail i received from you. i liiiiikked it a lot.
That is true what Dieter F Uchtdorf says no? He's awesome. Today we are here in Jose C Paz. This computer is a piece a junk and i still haven't figured out how i can send pictures with it. There are only elders in this zone so supposedly we do an activity together every Monday. Today at 11:30 our time we are headed over to meet the other elders and then all of us are going to eat at a place called pizza libre. its like a buffet of pizza. after at 2 we are going to the church to play soccer with everyone. It's awesome how were all united here. in other zones its not always the same.
When i got here i could never take money out cause alllll the banks here were fuuuuuull of people. like every day. I finally found a time when i could go and a lot of banks don't have money, lots wouldn't let me see how much money i had,it just said i had zero or that i couldn't use this card. I finally found a bank that told me i had lots in my checking but i couldnt take money cause it was all out of money. So i went to one of the banks that says i have nothing and i took out 1000 pesos today. It says i have nothing so i went back to the other bank to see my inquiry again and it recognized the 1000 i took out. it was so crazy and i have been so stressed about it but finally havethe money. I thank you and grandma and grandpa soo much for the Birthday money and i hope i didnt take out too much. Thanks mom.
On Wednesday and Thursday and Friday i got up at 6:30. Saturday and Sunday and today i woke up at like 7:30 or 7:45. I am getting better but i have realized that the days i have been obedient i had a good day and we did lots of lessons with members present. The other days we had bad numbers and i didnt have such a great day. I realize that being a senior companion that my area depends on me. lots of people say that they enter into a bad area, when really the bad areas don't exist, its the problem of the missionary. I even have more desire to be obedient now! The bishop called us this week and said Hey elders i have a baptism for you guys. On saturday we baptized a guys that lives in my area. sunday he was confirmed. We didn't teach him anything. he is married to an active member. he has leukemia ( the blood cancer) He might die, he repented and decided he wanted to get baptized, he just did the interview and got baptized, even though we did absolutely nothing the baptism counts for us. so technically i had a baptism this weekend. its a sad situation, the whole family was crying in his baptism and it was spiritual, but i was just a witness on the font side. Happy the man got baptized though because now hes just one step closer to be able to be sealed with his family and live as an eternal family.
The house i am in is actually kinda sucky. We don't have drawers or dressers, or a shower or nothing. i shower in the bathroom by filling up a bucket and getting wet, like a poor man. haha. its kinda funny. My area is big, the bus routes here are soo crazy and i feel really lost. There are sooooo many people here and sooo many stores that i am suprised. I feel like i am in the capital but its in the desert. Its like san pedro and the capital mixed together. I hope i can learn the bus routes better. But there are parts of the area where i fill like i'm in the Joseph Smith times. haha. Entering in this new area i started to feel like homesick you could say. Noone knows me and i feel sooo lost, I dont understand how things work here in the area but i am learning. haha. We are already in the second of six weeks so i'm doing alright. People now start to tell me that i have not that much time on my mission left. but i dont know how to feel. its all crazy. going really fast. i love the mission and know that i will miss it alot when its over with. I am glad i choose to come on the mission and I really enjoy being a senior companion. There is a lot more responsibility on my shoulders now i feel like. But i remember that the only thing that matters is the plack that says Elder. The other things are just assignments from the mission.=D. I love you lots mom, this computer wont let me send pictures but i will have to find one that can send cause i have to send a baptism paper to the offices by picture through email. love you guys lots!
Have a great week.=D
Elder Wikstrom