Challenges....

Hello Family!


Yes, last week sure was challenging...and so was this one.

After our little fight last week, I apologized and we made up for it by working harder then ever. Then our President came to visit the zone because there were other problems besides us that needed taken care of. MY NEW PRESIDENT IS SO COOL!! I’m so happy he is our president.

When I went in for my interview, I sit down and first thing he asks me is if I’m a District Leader and I told him no and then he said I should be. Ha-ha finally someone recognizes me. Then he asked me how much time I have left and guess what?! I HAVE been out almost 18 MONTHS- HOLY CRAP!!!!

Then he asked me to work as hard as I can and then asked me if there is anything that I need that he could help me with so I told him about my companion. He just suggested reading the scriptures every night and doing companionship prayer. Well it worked. I love my companion I know he is a good guy and all but I don’t understand why we disagree so much. I’m trying to do everything to keep sane and put up with all the stuff that goes on. He knows it, last week we had a companionship inventory after planning for the week and he tells me...I want to apologize for how I have been acting. You are one of the most patient caring companions I have had. You’re always right, you know what we are suppose to do and you do it. I wish I would have listened to you before....

After that we hugged and I told him "I’m always here buddy to help you out"...

Well we got in another mess; I have rarely been sick here in Leon. It has been raining like crazy and when it rains here it is cold, we get wet out walking and stay cold all the time so has made me sick again. Yesterday I tried doing everything I could to contact and work and it didn’t help me to feel any better. Last night our plans and visits were falling through and so were our backup plans. I was trying to find new people we could visit and teach but my companion wasn’t doing anything. I asked him "Why don’t you try finding investigators, it would help me out a lot"....and then he just flipped outs, has his bad attitude and started bossing me around telling me what to do. I obeyed and just took his crap LIKE ALWAYS until I couldn’t do it anymore.

We were walking and I told him "Man we can’t continue like this" and sat down on the sidewalk and he gave me an "I don’t give a dang" response and kept on walking. Well this time I didn’t get up and follow him....I just sat there. Then about 5 minutes later he came back and asked me why I didn’t follow him. I said "I’m sorry man I can’t be playing these stupid little games of yours". He got even madder so I said, “Just calm down, sit down for a minute”. He finally calmed down and I tried talking to him and it helped.....for a moment.

We got back to the house and he was still blowing steam but I remembered a scripture I read in Alma the other day and wanted to read that scripture with him. Well, he didn’t want to but he was already sitting down so I sat down next him and started to read Alma 31 about Alma and his brothers. If it didn’t help him, it helped me.....I was angry just cause he hadn’t apologized for flipping out, and I am trying to make this companionship work.

This morning (P-day) I woke up feeling sick at 6:30 am so I went back to bed. About an hour later he wakes me up and tells me to get out of bed that we are going to play soccer (I am so sick of soccer its the only sport we play down here) Then he says, “If you don’t feel good you can just sit there and watch me while I play and I was like "ha-ha - No".  I fell back asleep so he left the apartment while I was asleep, in his mind he thinks it was okay because members live nearby. After he comes back and he starts saying, “I WANT to do this and this and this today".... but I told him "I’m sorry I don’t feel good today" then he got mad and stormed off again.

Later, I was feeling a little better so I asked him if he wanted to go and get our hair cut and he grabbed the keys to the house and just left without saying anything. We went and got our hair cut and came back to the house to take a shower (which made me feel even worse cuz the shower water is so cold). We got dressed in our mission clothes and got ready to leave again (I thought to go eat lunch) but then he takes off a different direction. I asked "Where are we going?" and he tells me we are going to the bank, which is far away. And I was like DUDE YOU DONT GET IT I AM SICK, I FEEL NAUCEOUS ALREADY! He just replied "I am going to the bank you can stay if you like". I was so mad I wanted to....to....walk away so that is what I did… I walked about 20 feet from him and sat down. SO WHAT DOES HE DO NEXT!? CALLS THE MISSION PRESIDENT AND TELLS HIM I RAN AWAY. grr......

Everything is okay for this moment, we at least walked with each other to the cyber place where we write our emails!

But I thank you for your letter and sorry for mine ha-ha.  I love you all!

Elder Buck