Well my first week in Iztacalco was awesome, I had no idea that the Zone leaders were given all of the best wards… haha. Iztacalco is a really strong ward, there are 140 that go every week and our bishop is only 30 years old, had to bear my testimony in church my first sunday. All the members are really cool. What's funny about me being in Iztacalco is that it was Elder Chronisters ( my second comp) first ward. He always said that he wanted to return to the ward as a Zone Leader but he got sent to another mission hahahaha. The last misisonary that I replaced just went home so he left a bunch of junk in the house, old garments, clothes books, and I've been cleaning the house a lot lately. The area was left a little weak, but not too much, but it's a really big area, the biggest I've had in the mission. There are 4 metro stations in our area alone, and it covers delagacion Iztapalapa as well.
Elder Seañez is a balling elder, first off he's the tallest elder in the mission and well I'm not that tall, so I'm always sprinting at his walking pace, hahaha he's really humble and very smart, he has a really good idea of how to do missionary work, and he only has 10 months in the mission. It feels weird being junior comp to a Zone Leader, because I don't have the cell phone anymore and I'm not leading the area like I've always done.
The area used to be the assistants area, which is funny because all of my old assistants were working in this same ward. So the area book is absolutely full of old investigators and papers. We have a huge map in our house the has every street in the whole mexico city, so almost every night, I eat some beans and look at the map. We have an investigator that has more sins than any other person I've every met, and he should be getting baptised this saturday. We had to get rid of 300 gallons worth of weed. All of his pornagraphy cd's and cigars, I won't go into everything he's done, because it wouldn't be right, but let's just say that he's been hiring prostitutes for the last 20 years. His name is Miguel Angel and the best part about him, is he likes the Oregon Ducks, he's like the only person here in Mexico that knows anything about the Oregon Ducks.
Yesterday in our area there was the sunday night tiangis, which are little shops that people put up on the street, when we entered into the street at night, there was mountains of garbage, I've never seen so much garabge in my whole life. it was like......snow, people were even shoveling it like it was snow, to make room for cars.
I'm really liking my time as Zone leader, reporting to the district leaders is still a bit weird, having been a district leader just a couple days ago… hahaha. We went to the mission offices and collected a ton of materials for the zone, our zone is the richest zone in the mission, but our area for some reason is super ugly.
We are going to have a zone conference this week, so Elder Seañez and I are going to have to prepare something. Things are really good here, I'm loving the mission.
Elder Ordway
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